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dream related careers?
I want a career that has to do with studying dreams or something that has to do with dreams. Are there any careers out there that has to do with dreams or anything? Are dreams considered a field of science and would be categorized under some type of science?
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- you could delve into psychology and study the science of sleep. or you could do something much more productive with your time (instead of spending 7 years in school) and get out there and accomplish your own dreams.
- It would be useful to know about your age, your particular interest and its source, but in general terms, you have several options for pusuing your interest in dreams. First of all, dreams have long been seen as a window into the mind, or at least the unconscious part of it. They were also once thought to be messages from the gods, or a psychic transmission from other people or events. Based on present knowledge, the last two seem very unlikely. The first one, however, was strongly believed by Freud and Jung, the founders of psychoanalysis, and is still an element of much therapy. and counseling. Whether this is science in itself or not (and there are serious disagreements about that), it is certainly related to many branches and fields of science and it can be (and is) studied scientifically. We do, for example, know quite a lot about how the brain functions, and can pick up the very small electrical impulses that occur within it and can easily observe where within it there is activity in response to a particular stimulus. We can watch that in dreams too, and there are many studies of sleep, with and without a focus on dreams. So, you could become a scientist (or a physician) and study brain or dream-related phenomena. Almost every medical center and many other institutions have units doing this. The jobs within them do not necessarily require an MD, nor any advanced degree. There are also many clinics, companies and research laboratories working in related fields. Drug companies, psychiatric hospitals or manufactures of related machines would also be a possibility. (You could also consider sign up as a subject in such research, which is benign but would get you connected a bit.) I suppose you could also try to get a job with an astrologer or self-proclaimed psychic, but be advised that neither of these is seen as science, and many practitioners are simply charlatans, making money from the credulous.
