Foreclosure Crisis Imposes on the Dreams and Nightmares of Americans

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Psychiatrists are ruing the fact that enough focus has not been given to the impact of the home concept on the psyche. The foreclosure crisis is imposing itself on the dreams and nightmares of Americans.

Sussana Cohen is not hesitant to admit that she took the dreams to guide her to bid for her new home. She said, “I’m not shy about the fact that I let my dreams influence my behavior. The times in my life that I have discounted a dream because I felt, ‘Oh, that’s just a dream,’ it comes back to bite me. But that’s sort of my internal struggle: trying to figure out which of these dreams do I allow myself to believe in.”

While she was negotiating over a sale she had a dream about being pricked by a needle. The following day she heard from her agent that there was a second offer on the foreclosed house. Ultimately the deal did not materialize not because of her dreams but because of the players in the game, who purposefully delayed matters and she lost her chance.

Dreams have been given great importance in nearly all the ancient cultures. In modern times it has been shrugged off. But a recent study published this March noted that nowadays people are giving more importance to the information they get in dreams than before. The study has been conducted by Michael I Norton and Carey Morewedge of Harvard and Carnegie.

1,000 people of USA, India and South Korea were included in the survey. Some of them were engineering students from MIT. Most of the participants had faith that dreams held more significant information about this world than came to their minds while awake. In general the dreams had established their likes and dislikes, their beliefs and non-beliefs regarding the subjects they encountered in their dreams.

The survey was conducted against the background of a long time debate between dream psychologists and scientists about whether dreams were a sputtering of random impulses by the brain fed by worries and facts or whether they were evocative barometers measuring emotions together with indicative pointers to insights and intuition against the background of conflicts in real life.

Lately the stream of study connected with dreams is being given more recognition. More importance is being given to the interpretation of the dreamer than that of the analyst.