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The reasons why we dream have continually been a bit of a mystery. Do you agree with Freud's explanation of dreaming? Why or why not?

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1. The reasons why we dream have continually been a bit of a mystery. Do you agree with Freud's explanation of dreaming? Why or why not?

Dreams are not meaningless, not absurd; they are a completely valid psychological phenomenon, according to Freud, specifically the fulfillment of wishes. Dreams are classified in the continuity of comprehensible waking mental states; they are constructed through ...

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