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Warm Up. What are the Universal Biological Clocks? Are you a Lark or an Owl? Why? Why do we sleep?. Dreams and Dreaming. Defined in Webster's Dictionary as a "sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc., passing through a sleeping person's mind". Oneirology.
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Warm Up • What are the Universal Biological Clocks? • Are you a Lark or an Owl? Why? • Why do we sleep?
Dreams and Dreaming Defined in Webster's Dictionary as • a "sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc., passing through a sleeping person's mind"
Oneirology The scientific discipline of dream research The most famous dream researcher was Freud
Two Parts of a Dream (according to Freud) Manifest Content • the remembered storyline of a dream • who’s in the dream, what happens
Two Parts of a Dream Latent Content • the underlying meaning of a dream
The mc is the representation of the lc thus disguising the real meaning of the dream Dream Interpretation This type of therapy is dangerous…why??
Types of Dreams Daydreams • a level of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness. • It occurs during our waking hours when we let our imagination carry us away
Why do we daydream? • They can help us prepare for future events • They can substitute for impulsive behavior
Lucid Dreams • The conscious perception of one's state while dreaming • occurs when you realize you are dreaming • "Wait a second. This is only a dream!" • results in a much clearer ("lucid") experience and usually enables direct control over the content of the dream
Lucid Dreams Vanilla Sky- Lucid Dreams>
Nightmares • Dreams of particular intensity, with content that the sleeper finds disturbing • related either to physiological causes, such as a high fever • or to psychological ones, such as unusual trauma or stress in the sleeper's life
Reoccurring Dreams • Recurring dreams repeat themselves with little variation in story or theme. Have You had one???
Dreams of Absent Minded Transgression (DAMT) • Dreams where the individual dreaming absent mindedly performs an action that they have been trying to stop – withdrawal dreams • (a classic example is a smoker trying to quit dreams of lighting a cigarette). • Subjects that have had DAMT dreams have reported awaking with intense feelings of guilt
Fantasy Prone Personalities • Someone who imagines and recalls experiences with lifelike vividness and who spends considerable time fantasizing
To Satisfy our own Wishes “Wish-fulfillment theory” • Freud – “dreams are the key to understanding our inner conflicts” • Dreams are our expressions of our wishes
To File away Memories Information –processing Theory – sorting and sifting through information to aid memory storage or memory removal
To Develop and preserve neural pathways Physiological function theory • provides stimulation for our brain
To make sense of random activity in the brain Activation-synthesis Theory • The minds attempt to make sense of random neural activity • This might explain why many dreams do not make sense