A good example of repetition is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech," where his repetition of the phrase "I have a dream" serves to build power through the speech.
The phenomenon of REM rebound suggests that dreams serve a purpose beyond mere entertainment.
As for hope in this bleak region, "dreams serve no purpose when all horizons are bare".
A more recent theory suggests that dreams allow us to consolidate and arrange our memories, and yet another proposes that dreams serve the physiological purpose of preserving and maintaining neural pathways.
I must be looking for something/something sacred I lost/... so I can finally find what I've been looking for -- Billy Joel's "River of Dreams" "An illustration of what Carl Jung meant when he suggested that dreams serve as 'compensatory function,' that dream material may be the psyche's attempt to 'correct an imbalance' that exists in our conscious waking life.
The fundamentals seem obvious: how to pick a therapist; how the initial interview usually goes; what purpose dreams serve; the roles of catharsis, insight, free association, transference and the "much-maligned couch," which he argues can free patients to fantasize but can also sink them into passivity.
Dreaming serves to synchronize or resynchronize such modified neural circuits with each other and those not modified.
It's not clear what purpose these dreams serve, or what relationship the content of our disturbing dreams may have to issues and concerns in our waking lives.
Increasing research supports Carl Jung's idea that dreams serve a function in our well-being by compensating an unbalanced conscious position.
What sounds much like an Angelopoulian fever-dream serves as the cover GIF for Krist Wood's homepage, and it's an accurate road sign for the work found within.
