EQ: What are the

different dream

theories?

Bellringer

Look over your dream journal

Do you see any patterns? Did you have the same dream or type of dream more than once? Do you think your dreams mean something? Pick one dream or aspect of a dream and explain what you think it means.

Dreams

If woken from REM dreaming reported 78% of the time

If woken from NREM dreaming reported 14% of the time

Most of the time people do not know they are dreaming

Lucid dreams-awareness of dreaming (not common)

Dream theories1. Wish Fulfillment

Psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud

Dreams are disguised wishes of the unconscious mind

Dreams constructed to express desires in confusing symbolic manner to protect dreamer

2. Off-line dream theory

Dreaming stores information gathered during the day to allow the brain to work more efficiently

People spend more time in REM sleep after learning difficult material

Less learning occurs if denied REM sleep

3. Activation –synthesis theory

Dreams are the forebrain’s attempt to interpret random neural activity coming from the midbrain during sleep

Content related to your daily experiences but dreams have no real hidden meaning

Interpret your dreamshttp://www.dreammoods.com/

Assignment:

Find three interesting facts about dreams (not your dreams-dreams in general)

Look up the meaning of 10 different objects or actions in your dream

Write a paragraph about your findings. Do you think they are true? Why/why not?