The Interpretation of Dreams. Freud, (1)

There are interesting points from the very beginning of the book. The first thing is that sleeping is different from dreaming and vision is the state between waking and sleeping. Next, come different views on interpretation of dreams. Generally there are pre-scientific and scientifc interpretations. The former states that dreams are sent by gods and evils, having superhuman qualities as portents. They are admonishments about future working as warnings to the sleeper. Aristotle is the first thinker who says dreams are related to the mental activities of the dreamer. The faithful believers of religions as well as superstitious people way up to our time hold that dreams are of divine nature or are the workings of devil; thus we have truthful dreams vs deceitful ones. Their reasoning is to "support their religious faith in the existence and activity of superhuman spiritual forces."
The relation of dream to waking and the material of dreams is also interesting. Nevertheless, there is a credibly convincing contradiction which Freud accpets as a fact. During dreaming stage the mind is completely cut off from reality. Dreams have their own existence and dream-life is separated from real-life. However, the material of dreams come from real life and the realities which we have seen or experiences that have found their way into our thoughts, internally or externally, directly or indirectly.
Therefore, while any relation between dream life and waking real life is denied, we see that the material of dreams comes from real life.