1 / 8

Psychology of Dreams

Psychology of Dreams. Dreams. Electrical impulses caused by the firing of our memory circuits Everybody dreams 2 hrs a night – 3 to 6 dreams Dreams last 5 to 20 min. Dreams. Two-track mind – mind monitoring environment Smells and sounds enter dreams. Dream Content.

jocelynj
Download Presentation

Psychology of Dreams

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Psychology of Dreams

  2. Dreams • Electrical impulses caused by the firing of our memory circuits • Everybody dreams • 2 hrs a night – 3 to 6 dreams • Dreams last 5 to 20 min

  3. Dreams • Two-track mind – mind monitoring environment • Smells and sounds enter dreams

  4. Dream Content • 50% are in color, 50% in black and white • 70% about ordinary events • 48% of dream characters are recognizable by name

  5. Daydreams • Low level awareness • Boosts creativity, deal w boredom, control our emotions • Lucid dreaming • Aware you are dreaming and can control storyline • video

  6. Sigmund Freud 1st to study dreams thoroughly Interpretations of Dreams

  7. Dream Analysis • Psychoanalytic Perspective/ Wish Fulfillment • Freud • Uncover the repressed information in the unconscious mind • Manifest Content • Literal content of our dreams • Latent Content • Unconscious meaning of the manifest content

  8. Dream Analysis • Information Processing Theory • Stress during day increases so do the # and intensity of dreams • Relates to daily concerns • Integrating the information from day into memories • Facts about dreams

More Related