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B1 Intermediate English 5:38 Educational

Why do we dream? - Amy Adkins

TED-Ed · 8,973,476 views · Added 4 days ago

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B1

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5/10

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Subtitles (104 segments)

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In the third millenium BCE,

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Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on wax tablets.

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A thousand years later,

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Ancient Egyptians wrote a dream book

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listing over a hundred common dreams and their meanings.

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And in the years since,

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we haven't paused in our quest to understand why we dream.

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So, after a great deal of scientific research,

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technological advancement,

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and persistence,

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we still don't have any definite answers, but we have some interesting theories.

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We dream to fulfill our wishes.

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In the early 1900s,

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Sigmund Freud proposed that while all of our dreams, including our nightmares,

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are a collection of images from our daily conscious lives,

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they also have symbolic meanings,

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which relate to the fulfillment of our subconscious wishes.

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Freud theorized that everything we remember when we wake up from a dream

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is a symbolic representation

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of our unconscious primitive thoughts, urges, and desires.

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Freud believed that by analyzing those remembered elements,

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