exploring the dream world

lucid dreaming

you know you are dreaming
Freud concluded that

dreams provide insight into our desires which we are unaware of
freud:

thoughts and objects are translated to symbols, rational part of a mind distors a message that may cause anxiety
Cartwright concludes that:

getting through a rough period in life takes good dreaming
cognitive approach

dreaming emphasizes concerns, but doesnt try to problem solve
children cant create dreams until:

7 or 8
activation synthesis theory

allan hobson, neurons firing spontaneously in the lower part of the brain(pons) during REM sleep
according to activation synthesis theory the signals originating in the pons:

have psychological meaning, and the cortex tries to make sense of them by synthesizing with existing knowledge
in activation synthesis theory wishes do not cause dreams:

brain mechanisms do
psychoanalytic

express unconcious wishes, interpretations are often far-fetched
problem focused

express ongoing concerns and/orresolvecurrent problems

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exploring the dream world

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AP psych

Updated

2011-11-27T23:51:44Z