This Is What Dreams Are Made Of

Back in 7th grade I was assigned my first research paper. We were told we could choose our topics. I don't know why but I chose dreams. I suppose at the time I found them interesting. However, 450 notecards and a minimum of 10 sources later, I realized that people over-analyze their dreams way too much. I think I started thinking of this because I have remembered two dreams in the last month or so. I know this doesn't sound like much, but for me it's a huge number. I hardly ever remember dreaming. But I hear about other people's quite a bit. And now, years and years after I turned in my horrible first attempt at a paper, I have finally reached my conclusion on dreams. I believe that Freud pretty much had it completely wrong; not all elements of a dream are symbolic of something sexual. Maybe in those sexy dreams, but I can guarantee that not everything dreamed has sex behind it. I also do not believe that every object, idea, word, action, etc. has symbolism behind it. Dreams can get weird but if the basic ideas and elements behind it are examined they have perfect ties to what is on our concious mind. Whether they be memories, fears, wants, preoccupations, they are clear to our concious as well as the subconcious. Often it seems that we find ourselves dreaming of things our concious mind doesn't want to admit or acknowledge, but our subconcious just isn't that nice to us. It sometimes makes us face feelings and facts that we don't want to deal with awake, and I think this is where people's theories on symbolism really comes in. It is usually presented to us in weird ways and that makes people want to analyze every little element where it really isn't needed. Well, there is a very brief summary of my useless thoughts. I figured I wouldn't delve into the scientific aspects of it beacuse it was boring as far as I took it. Now I just need to reach my actual thoughts on the Chicago World's Fair and Langston Hughes before I get other major completed paper added to my heap.