Progress of Science Is Not Essay

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The house itself is physically different in each dream, but it is recognized by me as the same house. Sometimes I know who or what is chasing me, sometimes I don't. Regardless, I always end up in an upstairs part of the house, and the entire middle of the house is completely open all the way to the ground. There is basically a walkway around the inside perimeter of the house with doors leading off, and nothing in the central cavity. As whatever is chasing me closes in, I leap from the walkway to the bottom of the house, waking up as I land jarringly. I do not have this dream regularly, but I have had it off and on for years.

There are, of course, many different ways to interpret this dream. Taking a strictly Freudian perspective, the dream almost certainly relates to sexual desire in some way. Most things are related to sex and sexuality according to Freud, it seems.
The dark and narrow hallways that I run through in the house before reaching the top -- the manifest content of the dream -- are symbols for the female genitalia, according to Freud. The repeated passage through different doorways that occurs continues this sexual latent content, symbolizing a desire for intercourse in the Freudian perspective. My final leap does not lead to flying -- another Freudian symbol for sex -- but the falling through the air that is experienced and the sense of relief from escaping the chasing force could be seen as a desire to give myself over to sexual abandon. These guesses at the latent content of the dream are not very well substantiated, however, and the manifest content could represent a….....

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