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Dream
a sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind
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Manifest Content
According to Freud, the remembered storyline of a dream
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Latent Content
According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream
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Why We Dream
- To satisfy our own wishes
- To file away memories
- To develop and preserve neural pathways
- To make sense of neural static
- To reflect cognitive development
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Freud's Wish-fulfillment
- dreams provide a way to express otherwise unacceptable feelings
- contain manifest (remembered) content and a deeper layer of latent content--a hidden meaning
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Information-Processing
Dreams help us sort out the day's events and consolidate our memories
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Physiological Function
Regular Brain stimulation from REM sleep may help develop and preserve neural pathways
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Activation-Synthesis
REM sleep triggers neural activity that evokes random visual memories, which our sleeping brain weaves into stories
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Cognitive Development
Dream content reflects dreamers' cognitive development--their knowledge and understanding
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REM Rebound
the tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation (created by repeated awakenings during REM sleep)
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