Sweet Dreams

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Sweet Dreams

• Understanding your private dream world

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Starter Questions

• Are most mens dreams sexual?
• Is it always helpful to remember your dreams?
• Can dreams predict illness?
• Do dream symbols have universal meanings that can
  be found in dream dictionaries?
• Are most dreams in black and white?

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Top five most common dreams for teenagers
(boys/girls)

• 1. -78/83
• 2. -85/73
• 3. -73/74
• 4. -57/71
• 5. -55/62
• The 12 universal dreams http//www.post-gazette
  .com/pg/03341/248376.stm

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How much time do we spend in our own private
dream world?
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Non-REM sleep and dreams
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The content of dreams
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The emotions of dreams
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Waking life and dreams

• Day residue
• Examples
• Stimulus incorporation
• Examples

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Dream interpretation

• So what do dreams mean?

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Freud

• Sigmund Freud--The Interpretation of Dreams
  (1900)
• Manifest Content
• Examples
• Latent Content
• Examples

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Carl Jung
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Crick and Mitchison Information processing theory
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Hobson and McCarley Activation synthesis theory
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Rosalind Cartwright Problem-solving theory
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Lucid dreaming

• http//www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html
• http//www.dreamviews.com/
• http//www.lucidity.com/novadreamer.html