Jordan Peterson - The Interpretation of Dreams 

I love when he pauses himself to formulate precisely what he wants to say looking for the perfect words.

"Dreams are the birthplace of thought, just like artists are the birthplace of culture" This man is in another level...

I love to interpret my dreams. It's often so difficult to take your own advice but so easy to give it. If you interpret your dreams it's almost like you're giving yourself advice in third person. And surely it's got to be the best advice because nobody knows you like you do. Ahh, the subconscious mind, it leaves me in awe all the time.

Me: *thinks dreams are random* JP: “Dreams are obviously not random.” Me: “yeah... obviously” 🧐

This is free college. Thank you JP

"The dream is the birthplace of thought the same way artists are the birthplace of culture." -Jordan Peterson Just brilliant. Insightful, and deep. I would never have thought about it like that.

Thank you for these videos. It's really difficult for someone with a short attention span to go through 1-2 hour lectures and actually learn. Your edits on Dr. Petersons lectures are great. I've subscribed to Dr. Petersons own channel but I've only managed to watch 3 lectures completely and I had to watch those with breaks once in a while. Great work and please keep it up. I'm sure there are others who watch your videos for the same reasons as I. Some of us do have problems with attention span and I can't thank you enough.

Valuable quote - Three books trying to solve the same thing: Maps of Meaning (1999) by Jordan B Peterson, Symbols of Transforms, Origins (1956) by Carl Jung and History of Consciousness (1954) by Erich Neumann

Roughly speaking.

One major thing that I love about JBP his JBP's body language. It really helps

people need to know about this guy, seriously underrated

The way he uses his hands to help create an image in the listeners mind shouldn’t be understated. It’s what effective communicators do and I’m super thankful for Dr. Peterson

What a brilliant lecturer. Those lucky students!

You can usually piece together why you were dreaming of what you were. You can understand and pinpoint (usually) precisely what is going on in your life and what is occupying your mind to cause you to dream that. Other times dreams are incredible adventures that are better than any other experience you've ever had. I sometimes fall in love with a beauty in my dreams and wish I could find that person in real life. Other times they are so fucked up and nightmarish only the deepest most repressed violence a man can imagine brings them to fruition.

'Something is thinking in you' that hit hard

Dreams are wonderful. I enjoy my dreams very much.

OK so this is going to sound weird...but for 10 years now I've been dreaming in the same dream landscape. So every night I wake up either walking up to my house (same house everytime). As soon as this happens I know I'm dreaming and I can start controlling what i do. IVE EVEN DONE HOUSE WORK THAT APPEARS IN MY NEXT DREAMS AS WELL!! DOOR CHANGES, PAINT CHANGE, ETC!!) My house is in the same neighborhood and same spot everytime. I live in a whole city that looks almost like mine that I live in.. it's very very detailed and ALMOST the same everytime. The majority of the layout is the same but sometimes stores will be switched around. And yes I've been inside almost all the stores...but I can sometimes escape out of the city and stuff starts getting VERY weird...like I go off to fight monsters and people trying to attack my city. I'm not always off fighting though. Some nights me and my family just drive around the city, running errands . Grocery shopping, going to the park, taking care of the house etc. So....wtf is happening to me? Haha...

I'm a computer science student and don't give a rats ass about what my other classes have to teach other than my math/programming classes. But if I took one of Jordan Peterson's classes I would pay attention like it was data structures and algorithms (one of the most fundamental courses for comp sci students).

Everytime I open one of his video I learn more than what I learned in a year of school.

In these moments of silence I always check if video is still playing (I have it in background). It's deep silence mann

I love that...thinking IN you!

I think dreams are a way to process thoughts and memories while we are sleeping. When we are sleeping our brains don't have to work as much as while we are awake as an result it uses the free capacity and processes the experiences of the day. As I startet to analyse my dreams I found a lot of similar thing and structures to what I experienced the day(s) before

i thought to myself a while back, "i cannot construct a decent enough narrative to create a worthwhile story" and then shortly after i dreamt a story so engaging that it enthralled everyone i told it to, they forgot it was even a dream. I cut my hair very short for practical reasons and i dreamt of long hair incessantly for a while. I felt i was stuck in a terrible place and I dreamt of going down River Styx, damnation. my dreams are nightly, extreme, memorable and vivid. they leave me feeling exhausted and yet they are SHOUTING at me truths about myself every which way, so I try to take them seriously. Oh, something is in us, listening to and watching everything we do...

I have lucid dreams. In my dreams, I fly over buildings and land on roof tops. I can change my hair color, explore beautiful mansions, and if I’m being chased or attacked by someone I can shoot them, fly away or wake myself up. I’ve always had crazy dreams, but I learned that I could control them and it works.

I had a dream a few weeks ago where, it was lucid, I still remember little details. It got me thinking what if the mechanism in the brain that separates dreams from reality did not work in someone so they thought thier dreams really did happen... also in that dream someone was talking to me at the moment I woke up and I heard the sentance finish from outside my head like somwone was in my room with me. So also, I thought what if the mind of someone with schizophrenia hears thier inner voice from outside thier head like the son of Sam who said his dog was talking to him, maybe his brain interperated the inner voice as if it came from the ear. Things to ponder.

ive had an odd experience with dreams once and it completely changed my outlook on them. i got dumped by a chick and only a couple days after i had a dream that we were together again and just hanging out doing what we did. i was sad about that relationship ending for many months afterwards so i think it was my mind letting me experience something that i enjoyed one last time. when i was a kid i also had dreams i could fly around places. so here i agree that dreams are our mind showing a fulfillment of what we want. my simple minded 6 year old brain wanted to fly, while my older 15 year old self just wanted to be with that girl again. the human mind really is amazing man

The part about dreams that weirds me out how they incorporate things from the day into them. Usually people, music, and places. It just weirds me the hell out that it would do that. And it seems to mix the day with your whole past.

I think dreams are mere reflections of the images which dominate your subconscious. Usually if something affects someone at that deepest level they'll dream about, and usually I dream about ideas which I thought about during the previous day - why? Because once I think about them, they're mapped onto my subconscious. And the subconscious gives rise to thought. You don't just "think" for no reason - there's a gigantic connection of memories and images that rest in the subconscious, which thought derives from, and it's the same with dream thought, only the frontal lobe "filter" isn't activated, so the most prominent memories/images may come gushing out in strange forms. Sometimes they can teach you about what's going on in your subconscious, and sometimes they're just useless projections of images that just so happened to be dominant at the time.

When I’m stuck at programming something during the day, I typically get the solution while I’m asleep in bed at night. My brain still programs while sleeping and wakes me up when the solution is found (I’ve had to run a few times to find somewhere to write to not forget what I dreamt). I wonder what would be the explanation to that. It’s quite weird.

6:50 what if dreams are controlled by one part of your brain that you have no control of during the day. We gotta remember that we don’t have full control of our brain only god knows what would we be like if we do. So what if we can combine the control of our brain in the state of dreaming and in a state of being awake and combine those thoughts together. What would happen if we manage to control those parts of ourselves? If jung’s theory is correct and the dream is trying to tell you something wouldn’t having full control of our brain give our dreams a clearer message?

"The birthplace of mythology and literature, for that matter, was the dream. That they share structural/mode of information presentation." I'm currently reading the Interpretation of Dreams and good lord dreams are much more complex than I first thought.

One of the oldest Hindu mantras is following: „I am not the body, I am not even the mind“ Our minds produce the dreams it is not ourselves

Out of all the dreams I've ever had, I remember one specific dream extremely clearly. Maybe it was because it was so simple. But I constantly reflect on that. I had a dream that I was staring out of a circular window with bolts. And I was looking at the planet Mars. Nobody else was in the dream and no words were said. That was literally it. I ponder on it a lot. I've even tried researching what it means but I couldn't find anything that I could really resonate with. I'm still trying to connect that dream to my real life.

Last night I went to bed while listening to one of JBP’s two hours video. During the dream, I could not find my phone and it was necessary for me to find it to help solve a problem. The thing is, I was hearing everything he was saying and only the audio on the phone led me to find it. It’s like it went different places in my dream but I could always find it back cas he was still talking. I was surprised when I found it and woke to hear him still talking.

My dreams are so surreal that if they are trying to tell me something, they are really not doing a great job!

When I was a little girl , I always dreamed I fly and every time I tried to fly a little bit higher and further

I have read this book (Interpretation of Dreams)!! Best book you could ever read.

Book: The Interpretations of Dreams 2:50 3 different books

Kind of reminds me a scene from “Westworld.” Dolores: “Dreams don’t mean anything.” Dr. Robert Ford: “No, Dolores. Dreams mean everything! Dreams tell us everything about who were are and who we can become.”

I've had this idea that dreams are strange on purpose. The dream wants you to notice that something weird is happening and that you are infact dreaming. The goal of the dream (the strangeness of it) is to get you to lucid dream. The dream presents odd situations that wouldn't occur in the waking world to get you to notice and tell yourself "hey, that's not supposed to happen, I must be dreaming" For what purpose, I have no idea... yet

The most interesting thing about dreams is the way in which they construct things that you don't understand until you wake up - jokes, puns, detective stories, etc. I had a dire back-to-school dream during which I dimly started to recall university and work - and realized that I was dreaming. At this point I slowly woke up. Another dream was a Sherlock Holmes-like story in which the mystery was solved only after I had thought about it after waking up. Who or what came up with these, in a way that my dreaming consciousness did not understand it? After drinking too much tea late at night, I also dream about desperately looking for a toilet - and when I find one there is always something wrong with it: it is closed, there is a glass wall in front of it, there is a long queue, etc. This is how my subconscious stops me from soiling the bed. Why not just wake me up to go to the bathroom? Too easy? Perhaps this is the "burden" Dr Peterson wants people to carry.

I mostly have dreams of driving around on old familiar roads, but never really going anywhere specific or finding what I'm looking for...oh, shit.

Jung's dream did NOT incude Sigmund Freud and was not about excavating a basement. It was a drea abuta desent down through the floors ofa house, each lower floor was from an earlier period. the basement was Roman with a stone slab giving access to a cave with kulls. Source 'Memories Dreams, Reflections (Jung's autobioraphy). The best place to start reading about Freud is Studies On Hysteria (joseh Breuer and Sigmund Freud). This was the seminal psychoanalytical work and without it 'The Interpretation of Dreams' volume will be harder to undertand. Profesor Peterson was probably anxious to lin reud and Jung as in the diferences between their dream theories and theories of personality so conflated this wish with an inacurate recall of the facts of Jung's recorded dream (as quoted).

I wonder what his opinions would be for lucid dreaming, they've been very common throughout my life and you can't really analyze them in the same fashion as a regular dream. Mine all start in a regular, randomly constructed dream and I choose from there if I want to explore it or change environments entirely. They're cool in many ways for their limited possibilities, but sometimes it's creepy to be aware you're in this strange, endless void where nothing is real.

i can wake myself up from nightmares and it is so weird it feels like this huge wrench against..something and then you come to the surface and youre awake

If something is thinking in me while I dream it would suggest that there is a part of me outside of this experience I am having and I should remove any blockages between the two for greater understanding in my current perspective.

JP’s theory/hypothesis that dreams consist of involuntarily cognition is plausible as dreams occurs during REM sleep. However, it could also be that dreams are a subconscious way of consolidating our worries, fears and problems that for whatever reason remain unresolved in the waking hours. So in that sense, the interpretation of dreams is personal to the individual and therefore the meaning can’t simply be dictated by someone else.

I'm just trying to figure out what my dream meant I had in my childhood.. I woke up at night terrified, the wall next to my bed had words written in fire " I am your one and only God and you shall only serve me" and it ended with an eye opening and looking around my room and closing taking the words with it ..I screamed for my dad and told him everything... I had a religious upbringing so I assume it has something to do with that..but what really bothered me Is that it wasn't in my native language, and I couldn't formulate my own sentences in English back then...but I knew what the words on the wall meant Anyway as I got older getting involved in online debates I ironically identified myself as atheist.. no watching Dr Peterson videos I can't say I'm atheist but don't believe in an all knowing being as the Christians portray him to be... Would actually be interesting if someone can give their opinion on it? Is it because of my religious upbringing?

jungs interpretation that the dream is doing the best it can to communicate with the witness supports the thesis that s3x is the main drive of life, for the dream to continue building there must be new interpretations of itself, which is shared through symbols unique the witness, created a third thing that can be built off. the idea that the dream is trying to tell the witness something that it doesn’t want to hear suggests that anything is possible but the dream cannot crack into the conscious mind of the witness which is where that expansion happens that jung explains. both are driven by the same force to expand.

One of the most incredible videos I've ever seen.

Being aware of something does not give me the right to say I know. The more I know the less I know!

Dreams are me thinking, I really don't know why anyone would suggest otherwise. Dreams are separated from me it is just me thinking and you can change want Happens in yourself. There is studies that quite clearly you can be consciously dreaming and change things yourself. The only reason thus idea is confused by people is that you do a good job at making you believe the dreams us really.

Look at his handmotions, only takes a second or two to know what quality of actor he is. Hypnosis. Clever, yet beware you observing this ”star” brought to light in such a accelerating fashion. Observe, but do not let your mind be tainted with belief. ❤️

I often have recurring themes in dreams that feel significant, but I am unsure as to what their precise meaning/importance is. And the standard fare dream interpretation stuff seems pretty bogus to me...

A dead girl stuffed behind the wall has been haunting me in my dreams. In one of my dreams, I faced her and got some closure and so I thought. I don't know who she is and what's my involvement in her death. It's terrifying!!! How do I know who or what she symbolizes? How do I get rid of her?!

I can never remember my dreams, and also apparently i sleep walk...never knew that till my friend twice witnessed it don't know how long that's been going on...

this is one of the reasons I don't really take Jordan very seriously. Like me, he has an anxiety disorder, and like me he tends to tilt on the worst case scenario of each of his theories. Thinking dreams are facts is as silly as thinking thoughts are facts, and it's thinking that thoughts are facts which is a major component of depression, anxiety disorders, OCD, PTSD. Dreams are fairly well understood to be your brain processing recent and long term memories in random order, with the last stage of that interacting with our awakening conscious mind which starts to tie things together as miniature stories, so that one memory gives context to the next. The story you see in a set of random images certainly says something about how you see the world, but it doesn't say anything about reality it's self. imagine your brain doing this: remember this rabbit, remember this glove, remember this shoe, remember this street it was scary, remember this planet on tv, remember this kid who was mean to you, remember this boss who was confused that one day, remember that car you hated, remember when you were really scared of ants when you were 3? now imagine tying them together in a chronological narrative which you possibly already did in your imagination. That's what a dream is.

Joseph the dream interpreter is a son born to Jacob in his latter, more mature years. In like manner, these capacities are born in us as we spiritually mature. No one gets to marry the beautiful Rachel (or enjoy the son born through her) without first marrying the worn out and weary Leah who's eyes are weak.

I now realise that Freud was more correct when it came to dreams, but I think Jung had some good points as well. They both contributed but I feel Freud was on the better track.

God communicate in mind i had three words when I was concentrate that is i am going back in your age that is i know you in beginning second is i know you that is mind of Christ for i am bride of Christ third is you are innocent then i saw you in my dream that 👽 some kind that you were cowered with bedsheet that bedsheet was dirty and ants were roaming on you this was process was going on and truth came in existence that according to you we won't leave i gave myself to you i found grace in you i believe and receive for i was turning weak so power of Christ may rest upon me so it happened word of God is lord Jesus and bride of Christ is faithfulness i remain faithful to you i have you in my heart mind and soul i love me and I respect me for i am alone single i don't have any wrong relationship with others i don't want to be independent from God this is all people were after me i don't become like them serpent is pride i reject for i have peace within and with me so i love me and I respect me i hope you got my point

Dreams are the mind trying to comprehend the unknowns. The birth place of thought

Sometimes I’d have dreams I would be flying my just flapping my arms. At first it would be easy. As soon it becomes lucid dreaming where I can control it, it becomes crappy flying where I’d only glide a dozen feet before I hit the ground again and I’d have to wave my arms even harder. Difference between an eagle and a duck

Before watching this video. Sometimes dreams are random or maybe so they seem. I like to see them as: if there is a problem or an answer to a problem, my subconscious will try to bring it to my attention. When I refuse to believe or face something it will keep bringing it to my attention until I accept it. Our subconscious just communicates in a different way

Wow, this video completely blew my mind! I've always been fascinated by the mysteries of the dream world, and this explained so much about our subconscious minds. Thanks for sharing

2:04, 5:24, 6:45 The dream is the birthplace of thought, the same way that artists are the birthplace of culture.

I ve had dreams flying on roof tops , and usually I start flying because someone is chasing me and I 'm trying to get away from them. Then I feel like I am falling to the ground and then I wake up.or I am flying long distances over the ocean and I feel like I am running out of whatever it is I need to stay up ...Now I never remember my dreams or I feel like I don't dream anymore.

I was dreaming I can't really remember the situation I was in, it almost felt like an orphanage I've always been with my parents so I don't know what that feels like there were weird tapestries with symbols on them everywhere and it scared me, I asked a random girl in my dream wondering where my parents were she then said "up on the hill" I asked for directions and I followed her into a dark corridor where I saw more symbols then a strange figure with a mask surprised me and yelled blink twice I did and instantly woke up. I have goosebumps still

Very nice mini-lecture snippet! Covers an aspect of the "Mind-Body" problem, of the res anima as it were.

You don’t think involuntary at night. You are thinking constantly and when you are Falling asleep your thought will eventually be expanded. During the night your mind is more open so you can think more abstract but during the day it’s more focused so then you can act out these abstraction from the metaphysical to the physical.

“There are things THINKING IN YOU” whoa....

How about the fact that you can change your dreams if you are doing something with the message when you are awake? Like for instance if you dream the same dream over and over, you find out what it means and you adjust the blockage in your life that is the message of your dream

That idea, dream is the birthplace of thought, is pretty fucking amazing. It seemingly explains why anything has happened in human history of significant value. A great example that roughly puts the idea in that skeletal structure is of when Rome officially accepted Christianity as its belief. How that thing happened was pretty profound.

When I was about 5, I dreamed that I was hit by a kind of magic bullet and gained “infinite strength and durability” and eventually fought God and eventually an evil variation of what was considered God. It would continue though consecutive nights and after the Evil God was supposedly defeated, there was an organization of massive, gelatinous beings which possessed nuclear weaponry and threatened to destroy the planet, I eventually destroyed the warehouse in an explosion and that’s when the dreams stopped. I can’t explain what that could mean

"whatever they are, they're obviously not random..."

"well it's random because its' obviously not random" great argument, real convincing

Artist and Creative people know this, If you can use you minds eye and Imagination ... you got it!

What about the dreams that tell you of future events that happen? Where’s the logic? Where does it come from?

What if the ego or the conscious mind the navigator of this world simply is not equipped to understand the complexity of dreams?

deep insights. this guy is way tooooo smart!

"Nunca te vi, sempre te amei"

A professor that actually gives a pause to think about his words shows wisdom

when jordan mentioned freuds dream and the many chambers that jung discovered I instantly thought of jungs archetypes, because jung descri es them as being empty forms (chambers) at birth.

in my view dreams occur day and night at the same rate. They're just noise, the noise of neural networks in your brain. You can't hear it when you're awake and trying to do a task but as soon as you relax you start having this involuntary "random images". My theory is, when your focused on a task you purposefully excite the relevant networks in your brain, the noise is still there but the excited neurons are much louder. When your learning a task you're building the networks you need for that task. As soon as you let go the noise comes up again. If you practice something long enough even when you relax the noisiest noise will be coming from those pre established networks that's why you have dreams related to the sport you practice or the instrument you rehearsed.

I have come to understand, the way dreams work is literally this. Your body is a unaware conciouse form of life. You , and or, your brain. Is a conciouse form of life. So your dreams are what your body feels from what you learn, and process. So it happens because your body also uses your body. It gets this ability, while you are unconciouse. So because your body is unaware, it uses your brain processes to give you dreams, maybe by mistake, maybe on purpose, but because your body only feels, it can't just tell you, because its also not an aware form of life. The only contradiction is when you have voices in your head. But I have heard those voices before, they seem to know nothing other than a collection of what you have thought. But im positive that this explination is what dreams really are.

A few nights ago I dreamt that I was watching a deminer trying to defuse a bomb on TV (I think the bomb was in a sports stadium, maybe even an Olympian one). He was touching and prodding at bits of what looked like plastic tubes coming out of the ground in a circle around the "bomb area", some blue and some red. He started looking increasingly panicked, and eventually the bomb exploded with parts of that man flying off in all direction in a chillingly realistic manner. Anyone's got ideas how it could be interpreted?

What about the dreams I control. I build my own objects just by thinking of it in random rem sleep cycles?. Nearly every night the dream gives me the controls to play around? Why though? I think there's something even deeper in dreams we can truly can't understand.

"...It's somewhat incoherent" HA! That's putting it mildly

Do you think? Or do thoughts come into your head?

This is my dream I dreamed of myself with a young man I know in a seated place, then I found two coins with a snake drawn on them So I said, I will take it, I don’t want money, so I went up and found at the bottom a snake devouring a cat So I went to block a stone to hit the snake and help the cat Then I picked up the stone, and it came out of the stone of a black scorpion that has a tail and it ran down the fever, so I threw the stone and looked at my hand, was it dirty? Then I kept looking at the scorpion Then I stepped aside and woke up Please, is there an explanation?

What if my understanding of a dream is equivalent to wandering or fumbling around in the darkness trying to interpret that which I Cannot clearly see. So I use my imagination to make sense of that which simply hides in an illuminated areas of consciousness.

Had a dream last night that I was in a battle with a Count Olaf figure. It seemed he was looking for my demise and I was using my intellect to stump him at every corner. He caused a massive train crash that hurt a lot of bystanders. One of them I work with. He noticed an injury to his pinky was extreme and decided to perform an amputation on the spot. I woke up after I turned away to avoid the rawness of him cutting his pinky off with a pocket knife.

Usually I understand if the dream has some sort of meaning behind it or if it is just a random train of short visual content that is unrelated to anything.

Dreams are a visual representation of our internal emotions. Which explains why they're weird. You'd think that turning an emotion into a visual image is a messy proposition.

I had a dream last night and all I could hear was some nice house music , I woke up happy I am hoping this dream is positive ❤

sometimes i catch myself thinking jibberish stories and fantasies and scenarios. sometimes i even fantasize prayers.. its like im not praying.. but im fantasizing that i am praying. but its not a direct prayer.. hard to explain.

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I may not agree with JPs political or philosophical ideologies but he's a really good lecturer.

Which lecture is this from? I’ve listened to all of these so many times but I wanna revisit specific things

I had a dream where I cheated and although I would never cheat in reality, I can't help but think it meant something else more than what was at the surface. Also as my relationship has progressed I have become more secure in the relationship I haven't had such dreams.

How about dreams where you find yourself under water and you can't breath, well, because you're under water, but then you DECIDE to breath the WATER and then try to go down to see what 's at the bottom? Until something wakes you up and spoils your fun. How about if your mind/brain thing is like a radio receiver that's recieving many freqencies all at the same time while you're awake, and you tune in the loudest ones so they get all your attention. But when you're asleep and they go 'off the air', and the one(s) that are left still broadcasting reverberate in/as/whatever your dreams? Or you're in a house that seems to have an infinite number of rooms, so you run through as many rooms as you can before something wakes you up, again, spoiling your fun?