Editing Semiotics (section)

=== Semiotics of dreaming ===
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The flexibility of human semiotics is well demonstrated in dreams. [[Sigmund Freud]]<ref>Freud, Sigmund. 1900 [1899]. ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]].'' London: [[Hogarth Press|Hogarth]]</ref> spelled out how meaning in dreams rests on a blend of images, [[Affect (psychology)|affects]], sounds, words, and kinesthetic sensations. In his chapter on "The Means of Representation," he showed how the most abstract sorts of meaning and logical relations can be represented by spatial relations. Two images in sequence may indicate "if this, then that" or "despite this, that." Freud thought the dream started with "dream thoughts" which were like logical, verbal sentences. He believed that the dream thought was in the nature of a taboo wish that would awaken the dreamer. In order to safeguard sleep, the midbrain converts and disguises the verbal dream thought into an imagistic form, through processes he called the "dream-work."