Dreams about doors that lead to another world.
Dreams of windows that lead to the future.
Involuntary surreal dreams.
Dreams of talking to gods.
Dreams as a way to self-discovery.
There are many kinds of dreams.
But how, when and why do we have them?
We will answer all your questions.
Today on Pou de Tales (Tales' Well)
we will talk about the kingdom of the night,
the world of dreams.
If you love mysteries, this is the place for you!
Two who dream
- Look at that building!
There is a treasure for you.
- For me?
- A the very top of the building, a treasure for you.
You could be rich forever!
- Let's see, what were you doing at the building?
- It was a dream I had while sleeping in the park.
a person told me that on top of the tower
I'd find a treasure, and I believed it.
- Dreams shouldn't be given importance.
I also dream, sometimes about a weird person
who tells me about a treasure in a park
where there is a metal fox.
But it never occurred to me to go out and dig!
- A metal fox!
- Come on! Get going, we've got work!
- Okay!
-I really liked it! And you? -It was strange.
Dreams are weird.
Could you explain what they are to me?
I can explain it from physiological perspective.
From a psychological view, it is more difficult.
Start with the easy one!
A dream is a physiologic process that has 4 stages.
The 1st stage is the transition between being awake and asleep.
The brain stops producing quick, short waves
and starts producing long, slow waves.
It lasts between 5 and 10 minutes.
In stage 2 the breathing and heart rate
are stabilized and become regular.
And the person begins to disconnect from their environment.
During these stages (1 and 2)
one may have hallucinations
or feel like we are falling or even
visions of ghosts, demons, or aliens
that observe us in our bed.
These visions, even though they seem very real.
Or perhaps during the first two stages
ghosts, demons, and aliens
take advantage of the fact we are about to fall asleep
and surprise us no? - No.
What about sleep paralysis?
When people are awake but they can't move? Is it real?
Yes, and it happens during the first two phases.
I'm sleeping in bed, the brain wakes up
but my body doesn't; It's paralyzed, without me being able to move it.
It happens because the brain has relaxed the muscles
to sleep but the brain is still working.
Normally people feel quite anxious when it happens.
But there is no danger, in a short period of time,
the person wakes up or goes back to sleep.
Before you stopped at stage 2, keep explaining!
In stage 3 the muscles are relaxed
and the breathing speed
slows and blood pressure goes down.
You go from a light to a deep sleep.
This is when sleep walking may occur,
when you walk around while asleep.
Or it can be explained by the hypnosis of a vampire, no?
Come on!
Stage 4 is very interesting.
The body is immobilized but the brain is awakening.
Breathing and the pulse rate accelerates
and the eyes move quickly under the closed eyelids.
This happens because during this stage we have dreams.
This stage represents 20% of the time we spend asleep.
If you add up the time we've dreamed
through our whole life we spend around 6 years dreaming!
After stage 4 we return to stage 2
and the cycle begins again.
The cycle is completed 4 or 5 times each night.
Scientists understand how
dreams cycles are produced
but they don't know why.
Oh I know why!
To tell us the future
or to visit other worlds right?
I agree!
You agree? I told you so!
Many ancient religions
believed that the gods
gave messages to humans
through dreams.
For example, in ancient Egypt
they wrote 'The Book of Dreams'
with many examples of kinds of dreams
and what they meant.
The book contains a long list of dreams.
For example if you dreamed you ate a watermelon
it meant you would have a fight.
If you dreamed of your own death
it meant you'd have a long life.
If you dreamed you were intimate with a pig
it meant you would lose money.
In addition they had temple,
like the famous Seti temple,
where people would go to dream.
If you were worried about something
or had work or family problems
you could go to the temple before bed
and explain your doubts to the gods and your worries.
Then you would go to sleep in the same temple
and when you awoke you'd tell the temple priest about the dreams you had.
els somnis que havies tingut
and then he would explain their meaning.
In the Bible there is an example with Joseph an Israeli
that interpreted a pharaoh's very strange dream
after many priests could not understand its meaning.
oseph was a dream expert and knew how to help.
In the dream there were 7 thin cows
who ate 7 fat cows
and 7 thin bundles of wheat
ate 7 fat bundle of wheat.
Joseph believed that
after 7 years of abundance
of wheat and cattle
7 years of famine would arrive
where livestock and crops would dwindle.
And he was right!
They saved grain for 7 years
and thanks to the dream Egypt avoided a great famine!
How interesting!
Dreams allow us to enter another world
and a vision of the future
In many traditions both spiritual and religious,
like with the Greeks for example,
or the Jewish or the precolonial religions of America
or Buddhism....
In fact, Maya, the mother of Buddha
dreamed of a white elephant with 6 fangs that went into
her stomach and 9 months later
Buddha was born.
I agree that dreams
obren la porta a altres mons,
open the door to other worlds, but I meant in the unconscious.
When we are awake, we hold back;
suppress feelings, tendencies and desires
that are impossible to suppress when we are asleep
and manifest in dreams,
you dream about doing and saying things that you wouldn't do awake.
But with our most embarrassing impulses
that are sexual or aggressive and they are transformed into symbols
to disguise them so that we don't wake up ashamed.
A psychoanalyst bases their work
on interpreting the dreams of their pacients
sorting through the superficial,
and finding the latent content.
I don't really understand. Could you give me an example?
For example...
in a dream you are in a landslide
with a side of the wall of Montserrat mountain
and it tramples you. If you analyze this, it could mean
the patient feels threatened by their mother in law who is named Montserrat.
Fear of the mother in law is the real meaning of the dream.
So psychoanalysts interpret dreams
like priests did in ancient times!
And that is why I am here, because lately,
I've had repetitive dreams and I am anxious.
-Okay, tell me more.
Sometimes I dream
I dream I am in the bathroom and my teeth fall out.
I also dream I give speeches naked
in front of a huge crowd and I am embarrassed. So I run away.
Two years ago in Catalonia...
Sometimes I dream I am flying and I am very happy.
Or that I try to open a door
and I can't so I use a sardine to open it!
There is no such thing as just one interpretation
it depends on each patient and their experiences.
Some interpretations can have common characteristics
such as dreaming about your teeth falling out,
could interpret this dream as a difficulty with communication
since it is related to the mouth.
Well it wouldn't apply to me since I communicate with my hands.
-Yes, that isn't it.
It can also represent a time of change
since teeth fall out when you are a child or elderly.
Time of change...
Perhaps, you are experiencing a moment of change...
It could be!
What about the dream where I am naked in a theater?
Fear of being honest,
being yourself or revealing a secret.
Could that be? -Yes, yes.
What about flying?
-A need for freedom?
-Could be.
But what I am most worried about is the one with the sardine!
About the dead sardine and the doorknob...
we'll save that for another day.
This book can help us.
I recommend you read this book.
"Life is a Dream". It is a classic.
It would be great if they did a version for theater in Catalan sign language.
Let's see if someone decides to do it.
A film?
"Spellbound" by Hitchcock
Dalí did the set.
It is really good.
A psychoanalyst resolves a crime
by analyzing a patient's dreams.
Since you've spoken about surrealism I recommend
a series of shot films directed by Josep Maria Segimon
starring Josep Boronat , titled: "The Crow". They are really good!
But in the end you haven't told me what my sardine dream means!
There are dreams that are common to all.
The experts say that his occurs because
not only do we have an individual unconsciousness
but also a collective, universal unconsciousness
which the psychoanalyst Carl Jung affirms.
But what about the sardine?!
There is some tension between psychologists and psychiatrists when it comes to dreams.
The sardine....The sardine....
Some psychiatrists believe they have no meaning
that dreams are just leftover information in our brain
and dreams help to clear it out.
- I'm not feeling well...
More or less like the "trash" button on a computer.
What do you think?
(Falling noise)
They left without paying.
We will see you next time! Thanks! Bye!