Dreams

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Dreams

• sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts
  passing through a sleeping persons mind
• hallucinatory imagery, discontinuities and
  incongruities
• delusional acceptance of the content
• difficulties remembering
• NREM boring, short
• REM Vivid, real time, long

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Dreams

• Dreams
• Early dreams daily events
• Late dreams longest, most vivid, strangest
• 8 out of 10 dreams are negative in feeling
• Most common dream themes
• Falling, Being Chased, Teeth Falling Out, Flying
  Back at School, Nakedness

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Dreams

• Dreams
• Women dream of men and women equally men dream
  about men 65 of time
• Sensory stimuli of sleep environment can intrude
  into dreams

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Lucid Dreaming

• Lucid Dreaming dreams where you realize you are
  dreaming and are able to control the dream
• Incubated Dreaming conscious suggestion to
  theunconscious todream about certaincontent

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Dreams Freud

• Sigmund Freud wrote The Interpretation of Dreams
  (1900)
• Manifest Content
• remembered story line
• Latent Content
• underlying meaning (usually sexual according
  to Freud)

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Dream Theories

• Freuds Theory
• 1. Wish Fulfillment
• Dreams express otherwise unacceptable feelings
• psychic safety valve
• Called dream the royal road to the unconscious

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Dream Theories

• 2. Information-Processing
• Dreams are for mental housekeeping
• Dreams help us sort out the days events and
  consolidate memories
• Learning and reverse
• learning (to forget)
• Ex High grades high sleep correlation

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Dream Theories

• 3. Physiological Functioning
• Brain stimulation from REM sleep may help
  develop and preserve neural pathways
• Explains why infants spend so much time in
  sleep and REM

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Dream Theories

• 4. Activation-Synthesis
• Dream is your brain trying to make sense out of
  random neural firings
• Limbic system (emotion) and visual cortex have
  increased activity while dreaming
• Bottom line Dreams are
• personal but meaningless

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Dream Theories

• 5. Cognitive Theory
• Dream content reflects dreamers cognitive
  development
• Children under 9 Dreams are like slideshows that
  dont make sense
• Older Coherent storylines in which we are actors

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Sleep Learning?

• Can we learn while sleeping?
• No.