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Sweet Dreams: Understanding your private dream world

Sweet Dreams: Understanding your private dream world. Starter Questions: True or False?. Are all dreams unconscious wishes? Are most men ’ s dreams sexual? Is it always helpful to remember your dreams? Do dream symbols have universal meanings that can be found in dream dictionaries?

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Sweet Dreams: Understanding your private dream world

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  1. Sweet Dreams: Understanding your private dream world

  2. Starter Questions: True or False? • Are all dreams unconscious wishes? • Are most men’s 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?

  3. 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

  4. How much time do we spend in our own private dream world?

  5. Non-REM sleep and dreams

  6. The content of dreams

  7. The emotions of dreams

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

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

  10. Can we learn while we sleep? • No.

  11. Dream interpretation So… what do dreams mean? Here are brief summaries of all of the different viewpoints.

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

  13. Freud’s two levels

  14. Carl Jung • Dreams are the key to our collective unconscious: our shared human memory

  15. Crick and Mitchison: Information processing theory • Dreams help sift, sort, and fix the day’s experiences in our memories, getting rid of useless connections, clearing space for new information

  16. Hobson and McCarley: Activation synthesis theory • The pons dispenses random bursts of electricity during REM, and dreams are your cortex’s attempt to make sense of it.

  17. Rosalind Cartwright: Problem-solving theory • Dreams are the brain’s way of working things out; they exist to help us

  18. 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-dreaming-techniques.html • http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream

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