In last weeks psychology and theories class I found it interesting to hear about the various dreams people had talked about in the classroom. Dream work is known as the process of trying to understand the meaning or significance of a dream. Freud believed that dreams were the key to getting inside the unconsciousness. Freud believed that children tend to dream of the pleasure that could possibly come from an unsatisfied wish from an earlier time, because they do not have defenses that protect their motives. Adult dreams also reveal unsatisfied wishes, but often the adult self concept hides the meaning of dreams, because the self concept believes the dream is not tolerable. Because of these factors that effect dreams Freud developed the idea of the manifest and latin dream. The manifest dream is the dream as it recollected or remembered the following morning and it contains a certain story. The latent dream is the meaning or motive within the manifest dream. Freud believed it was important to understand the latent dream. I think that dreams are interesting to understand because when people are asleep they are relaxed and psychological resistance is "caught off guard" and wishes or desires are let loose. It often takes me a while to begin to put together in my head where some of dreams come from, but eventually I begin to realize what influenced or motivated most of my dreams.