Finding Yourself in Your Dreams

Fall (9 - 13 hours) | This course is completed

10 Hilton Field Road Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Founders Room

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10/2/2017-10/30/2017

2:00 PM-4:00 PM EDT on Mon

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$60.00

5 sessions, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Mondays, October 2 through October 30, 2017
DOC House - Hanover, NH
Course Fee: $60

Our secret personalities and desires hide in the unconscious mind, often undetected until released in our dreams. We’re often baffled by the meaning of our dreams as they inform us or frighten us in our sleep. This course will explore ways to interpret our dreaming minds.

We’ll take advantage of dream analysis by Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Erich Fromm. Other experts will make an appearance as well. Dreams often reveal surprising solutions to problems in our relationships, our work, and our everyday lives. They also shed light on our highest aspirations. Aside from these impressive contributions to our sanity, they can provide hours of entertaining discussion.

The course will present an overview of the mind as conceived by leading psychologists. We’ll then tie these mental models to dreams, also considering films, myths, and other stories that share the characteristics of dreams. (Bad dreams that invade our political life may also come into play.)

Students will be encouraged to present their dreams for class discussion. Each student will, of course, have the choice of presenting their dreams in anonymous form.

The course will feature short lectures and class discussions. There will be no required text, but students will be encouraged to read from a list of optional articles and books.

  • There are suggested texts for this course.
Brown, Harry Dean

Dean Brown earned a B.A. in Government at Dartmouth and an M.A. in Political Science at Duke University. He taught Constitutional Law and related courses on the university level while living in West Berlin, Germany. Dean also lived a year in New Zealand as a high-school student. He credits his years abroad with giving him a perspective on life that broadened his approach to life’s pressing questions. A former congressional press secretary and foreign-policy advisor, he now hosts a television show called Raising Questions that gently challenges conventional ways of approaching politics, psychology, and religion.