ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that profound method of understanding and working with dreams, based upon the network of associations related to the symbolic nature of dream images and dream narratives. It focuses on the work of the two great depth psychologists of the twentieth century, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, as well as many other psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, neuroscientists, and dream researchers who have contributed to our understanding of dreams and dreaming. Jung understood the sometimes bizarre and incomprehensible nature of dream images to be due to the fact that they are symbols. In 1953, two dream researchers, E. Aserinsky and N. Kleitman, found that the brain was particularly activated during what they described as rapid eye movement sleep, and they suggested that dreaming was associated with this period of sleep. Freud saw the manifest content of the dream as disguising the latent content.
