Sweet Dreams: Understanding your private dream world

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Sweet Dreams Understanding your private dream
world
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Starter Questions True or False?

• Are all dreams unconscious wishes?
• Are most mens dreams sexual?
• Is it always helpful to remember your dreams?
• 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. Being attacked or chased-78/83
• 2. Sexual experiences-85/73
• 3. Falling-73/74
• 4. School, teachers-57/71
• 5. Arriving too late-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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Day residue

• The content of dreams is often similar to events
  in your waking life.

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Stimulus incorporation

• Stimuli that occur during sleep can be
  incorporated into dreams either directly or in
  altered form.

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Can we learn while we sleep?

• No.

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Dream interpretation

• So what do dreams mean? Here are brief
  summaries of all of the different viewpoints.

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Sigmund Freud

• Sigmund Freud--The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)

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Freuds two levels
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Carl Jung

• Dreams are the key to our collective unconscious
  our shared human memory

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Crick and Mitchison Information processing theory

• Dreams help sift, sort, and fix the days
  experiences in our memories, getting rid of
  useless connections, clearing space for new
  information

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Hobson and McCarley Activation synthesis theory

• The pons dispenses random bursts of electricity
  during REM, and dreams are your cortexs attempt
  to make sense of it.

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Rosalind Cartwright Problem-solving theory

• Dreams are the brains way of working things out
  they exist to help us

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Lucid dreaming

• A state of dreaming where the sleeper can direct
  the dream or is aware that she/he is dreaming
• Check these out in the remaining time, and take
  notes on the next slide.
• http//dreaminglucid.com/fivetechniques.html
• http//www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html
• http//www.dreamviews.com/
• http//www.lucidity.com/novadreamer.html
• http//www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/lucid-dream
  ing-techniques.html
• http//www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream

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