Part II. Written Report 

Once you have about four to five dreams in your journal, try to analyze them using the following questions as guides (but feel to create your own "questions" also). 

 Were there any common threads, common ideas, running through the journal?  Are your dreams bizarre? Mundane?  Which dreams are most disturbing? Why? What do they mean to you?  What common symbols or objects did you record? What do you think these symbols mean?  Were you able to control your dreams as you remembered more and more of them?   How are your dreams relevant to your waking life?  Was the content of both journals identical on any days? What does this tell you?  What seems to be the main function of your dreams?  In other words, what did you learn about yourself by writing in the journal? 

Write a thesis statement, and support it with references directly from your dreams. Summarize the dreams you discuss in your report. Consider comparing settings, plots, characters, emotions, and colors. 

Analyze one of your dreams from a pure Freudian perspective and one dream from a Jungian perspective. Write a two to three paragraph interpretation of what it means (the whole dream or parts). Use the terminology from Unit I and Unit II whenever possible. 

For the remainder of your analysis, you may want to reference a couple of your dreams. Write a one to two paragraph essay on some common themes your listed dreams may represent, concentrating on issues, conflicts, or concerns that are shared by everyone. 

The report should be in essay/paragraph form. Do not just write sentences answering each question; rather, have a thesis in mind that connects all the individual ideas. 

Your assignment must: 

ï‚· Be a minimum of 500 words. ï‚· Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

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 Include a cover page containing the tile of the assignment (Unit II Dream Journal), the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. 

Tips to help you remember your dreams: 

 Relax and keep telling yourself that you will remember your dreams.  Create a comfortable sleeping environment.  These dreams do not have to occur at night, dreams that occur during naps can be just as revealing.  If you cannot remember a dream, when you wake up, just write the first words that come to your mind, as you look at them; a dream may come back to you.  If you get stuck, you can think about dreams you have had before, especially those that are reoccurring. 

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