Calvin Hall: Conceptualizing Dreams

Conceptions of impulses, prohibitions and penalties: these conceptions relate to the ways in which we behave. They can give the dreamer insight into the intracacies of conscience, and the possible roadblocks and obstacles to current and future modes of behaviour.

Conceptions of problems and conflicts: These conceptions highlight the basic conflicts and predicaments we encounter in our daily living and how we resolve them. These conceptions highlight the basic conflicts and predicaments we encounter in our daily living and how we resolve them. These illuminate the dream conflicts as we see them, and not necessarily as others do.

Using these five conceptions, the dreamer may be able to achieve what Calvin Hall considered his content analysis system to be useful for identifying the personal thoughts which preclude the individual's behaviour, and reading the dream maps of the human mind.

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