05/15/14 Dreams

• Dreams- A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind.

• Manifest Content- The remembered storyline of a dream.
• Latent Content- The underlying meaning of a dream. 
• Why do we dream?
1. Freud's wish- fulfillment Theory
• Dreams are the key to understanding our inner conflicts.
• Ideas and thoughts are hidden in our unconscious.
• Manifest and Latent Content.
2. Information processing Theory
• Dreams act to sort out and understand the memories that you experience that day.
• REM sleep does increase after stressful events.
3. Activation- Synthesis Theory
• During the night our brain stem releases random neural activity, dreams may be a way to make sense of that activity.