Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.
Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires.
Dreams have as much influence as actions.
A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.
I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.
Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.
Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.