Worth / Not Worth Dreaming - Phenomenology of Dream Experiences. Sleep as a Prospect of Borderline Experiences

Abstract

A dream is an important space in our lives in terms of how much time we spend sleeping, but also in a way how it expresses our experiences and mental involvements. In the text, I bring a borderline perspective of the dream experience, paying attention to the activation of the trauma and the reports on this subject of former concentration camp prisoners, which memories were collected by me personally. The introduction to the text is a case study of a Mauthausen prisoner. I describe the long conversation with him in detail, because in this description there are data on the unexplored post-camp syndrome – a dream within a dream. Due to the importance of the subject, the entire context of the conversation is crucial, especially the respondent's reaction. The text has a profile concerning social and medical science - it is important for psychiatry, but equally important from a philosophical perspective.