Question

Andrea had a dream in which she was riding a unicycle toward mountains that reached all the way to the sky and disappeared into clouds shaped like toadstools. Andrea is convinced the dream represents an unconscious desire to quit her current job. According to Freud, the unicycle and toadstool-shaped clouds would represent:

Answer 1

The correct answer is A) the manifest content of Andrea's dream.

The other options of the question were B) an interpretation of random neural activity in the hindbrain. C) a physic premonition of future events. D) the latent content of Andrea's dream.

According to Freud, the unicycle and toadstool-shaped clouds would represent the manifest content of Andrea's dream.

Psychologist Sigmund Freud developed studies about the interpretation of dreams. He believed that dreams had meanings and sometimes dreams suppressed wishes. He considered that in studying dreams he could better understand the unconscious mind of humans. For him, the manifested content of a dream is the part that we remember after we wake up. The other concept is the latent part, that stays in the unconscious mind because he can't remember it.