Hello to all,
I am doing research on the representation of dreams in the works of Muslim Mystics in the middle ages. I am interested to know what "dreams" meant to them and how they used it. I have collected about 250 dream accounts from Persian and Arabic texts. I am not concerned with the explicit contents of these dreams. I would like to take a critical look at the authors' underlying ideas and goals. Specifically, for each dream account, I would like to consider four related questions:
1- What this dream account is telling us?
2- What does the author want to say by reporting this dream?
3- dreaming is considered as...
4- What are the latent or unwritten messages or implications of this dream report?
In short, I know what kind of analysis I would like to do, but I am looking for a named approach. Would you recommend that I use discourse analysis (if so, which type of DA?) or critical thematic analysis to answer these research questions? Or would you know a more suitable method(ology) for my research?
Thank you very much for your attention.
Life and death cycle is a continuous process, no end except a liberation. Whatever experiences you have gone through in any lifetime including physical life (when you have a body) and subtle life (when you are without the body, after death, and before the next birth), are remain stored in your subtle repository and surface time to time in the forms of dreams. This is one of the causes of dreams. Other than this there are various other causes of dreams. To read more click the link - https://www.lifeinvedas.com/the-interpretation-of-dreams/
I advise you to carry out a critical thematic analysis to answer your research questions with a reference to Freud's analysis of dreams and their significance. you can also refer to the Islamic explanation of the dream analysis represented in Ibn Sereen's analysis of dreams and their significance. I wish you the best luck.
I don't know that there is a correct answer--you can use a variety of methods to analyze your accounts depending on how long they are and how structured you want to be. Colleagues and I have sometimes used both manual coding and software. For interviews where there is a lot of material on a few people, we do thematic analysis to identify themes. For incidents that are a few sentences on large samples, we use content analysis to put the incidents into meaningful categories.
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