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Obsession
What are dreams? The "Little Oxford Dictionary" defines dreams as "series of pictures or events in mind of sleeping person; day-dream; ideal; aspiration or ambition." In simpler explanation, dreams are ideas and thoughts that we think of throughout the day or in our sleep. In "Dreams and Inward Journeys", dreams play a positive role and a negative role. Positive dreams are thoughts and stories of inspirations such as wanting to become a millionaire, and myths and fairly tales. On the contrary, negative dreams are destructive thoughts and stories. And in extreme cases these destructive thoughts and stories can lead to destructive actions. Within these cases, many are thought and performed repeatedly or they are well known as obsessive-compulsive.
Worries, doubts, superstitious beliefs all are common in everyday life but, thoughts, images, or impulses that occur over and over again, and acts performs over and over again are not. This condition is known as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)...