Throwing Up Signs...

A few weeks ago, I was extremely tired after a full day of classes and decided to take a nap. My mother and brother were in the room watching T.V. while I was napping. When I fell asleep they were watching a show on the science channel about the universe. 

     

After falling asleep, I had a very vivid dream that I was a documentary filmmaker and was doing a piece on gangs. In the dream I followed gang members around and studied their lives and habits. I don't remember much past this point except the part in my dream where I was attacked. I was assaulted by two gang members at night and they stole my camera, this would not have been a very odd experience, except for the fact that both members of the gang were white.

When I awoke from my dream, shortly after the attacking, I found my mother and brother watching a documentary on the Bloods and the Crips in Compton, Los Angeles.

According to the psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic viewpoint there are two sides to my dream, the first being the manifest content. The manifest content in my dream was that I was a documentary filmmaker studying gangs and subsequently attacked by white gang members. The latent content would be that I unconsciously desire to study things and learn subjects more deeply as a filmmaker does by physically being there to study their subjects. I could also possibly live in fear of white or Caucasian people. Our government and police force, the most influential and powerful institutions in America are overwhelmingly populated by caucasians. They have the power and, statistically, as a minority I'm at a disadvantage. 

From the cognitive perspective I  could possibly fear being attacked while in a vulnerable position. I have always wanted to take a self defense course and martial arts classes but haven't ever done it.  

However, I believe that while I was sleeping I was hearing the television and the content manifested itself in my dreams.