خواب کاقضیہ دینیاتی،ثقافتی اور سائنسی مطالعہ
The Dilemma of Dream: A Religious, Cultural and Scientific Study
Abstract
It is a universal fact that every living person sees dreams. The most interesting phenomenon about dream is that, things and world of dreams look different from real world, but the things seen in dreams mostly belong to the real world. One third of total life is spent while sleeping. Our brain is active while we are a sleep. The brain keeps us busy and shows dreams of different nature. Good dreams have a distinct place in Islam. In the Holy Qurᾱn these dreams are called revelation, and in the Hadith they are termed as herbing of good news. The dreams of the prophets have been given the place of revelation and to those of the Sufis and saints; they have been attributed the place of intuitions. In other revealed religions, the place of dream is that of a vision. In Old Testament, it is said “that God speaks once, rather twice; if man is not listener, then at night when heavy sleep haunts people and they are on beds, during sleep, in dream he opens his ears and he makes his psyche incused with knowledge so as to prevent him from that thing and conceals pride from human beings. He supervises his soul so that he should not fall into the ditch and saves his life by sparing it from sword. He then gets warning on his bed and his bones break”. On the other hand, the scientific approach regarding dream is very different. According to Freud’s, “dreams are the quintessence of experiences and observations of the present which indicates to the future. According to him, dreams are part of the construction of a human personality and that they are the part of our unconscious. His views are totally different from those of the Freud who considered dreams as the projection of the (libidos) desires reared by the people in the early stages of life. Sometime it takes us to the world which is quite unfamiliar to us. Some dreams remain in our memory while others are forgotten. The paper under study strives to analyze and compare the ideas of Freud with two revealed religions about the nature of dream.
