><I think the dream would not have been shown unless it had some
>significance - in this case, that Ranma was desperate enough to defeat
>Ryoga that he would attack him in his sleep to do so.  Meaning that in
>wake-up land, given the chance, he would.>
>
>     Not necessarily true...  Dreams are situations where a person may
>sho his/her deepest desires, but that is all they are...  Ranma may have
>the desire to do so, but he may or may not act upon those thoughts...

Also dreams are a place where the part of the mind that acts as a moral
"censor" is partly or totally absent, and all sorts of buried ideas and
images are able to surface. This may include things that are irrational,
contradictory, or contrary to the desires of the conscious mind.

The fact that you dream about something may not mean that you have a
suppressed desire to do it; it simply means that the image exists in your
subconsious.

The absense of the "censor" means that dreams are a totally unreliable
guide to someone's waking behavior or moral code.

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    Albert Lunde                      Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu