Wish fulfillment

Your wish is my command ...but too bad for you this ain't real buster!

Sigmund Freud theorized that some dreams that we had were in the form of wish fulfillment. Our subconscious - our personal genie - would resolve our internal conflicts by granting our deep desires, realising them while we were asleep. Some in crude form where the manifested content (what we saw in the dream) equated to the latent content (the meaning of the dream) without the encrypting process in between which he termed dream work causing the manifested content to be symbolic of the latent content but totally quirky and weird-ed-out. These dreams are mainly infantile but as we approach adulthood our subconscious develops a preferred taste for the cryptic.

Freud describes thirst at night being comforted by a dream of drinking just to get us to keep sleeping (gosh our subconscious is devious!). And dreaming about already being wake, too (are you sure are subconscious ain't evil, leading us on to an eternal sleep - it's the witch and we're Sleeping Beauty!). But the point is if you really and truly were hoping for something...

"An idea merely existing  in the region of possibility is replaced by a vision of accomplishment." (Freud, Dream Psychology)

Moving onto cryptic dreams the realisation of the wish is still there, just that our subconscious works in such a witty and fascinating way it is able to extraordinarily condense so many elements of our conscious and unconscious knowings into the production of our wish. Ergo the metaphors and similes and double sided meanings - the fun stuff of rhymes and riddles.

I want to come to the part of  'combined people,' though this is probably sliding on a tangent to the topic of granting wishes, but this is interesting and a bit grotesque.

"I can build up a person by borrowing one feature from one person and one from another..." 

So I'm thinking we can imagine up extraordinary mythological creates like griffins, Pegasus, centaurs... or we can start creating zombies! We are Frankenstein or some talented plastic surgeon.

Then we can start piecing together environments from what we know and go all Inception on things.

This is far as I want to go for now on dreams but I might continue on some other strings to it when I come to them. So for now I bid you adieu.