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Warm Up. What are the Universal Biological Clocks? Are you a Lark or an Owl? Why? Why do we sleep?. Dreams and Dreaming. Defined in Webster's Dictionary as a "sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc., passing through a sleeping person's mind". Oneirology. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Warm Up
• What are the Universal Biological Clocks?
• Are you a Lark or an Owl? Why?
• Why do we sleep?
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Dreams and Dreams and DreamingDreamingDefined in Webster's Dictionary as
• a "sequence of sensations, images, thoughts, etc., passing through a sleeping person's mind"
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OneirologyOneirology
The scientific discipline of
dream research
The most famousThe most famousdream researcher wasdream researcher was
Freud
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Two Parts of a Dream (according to Freud)
Manifest ContentManifest Content – the remembered storyline of a dream – who’s in the dream, what happens
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Two Parts of a Dream
Latent ContentLatent Content –the underlying meaning of a dream
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The mcmc is the representation of the lclc thus disguising the real meaning
of the dream
Dream Interpretation
This type of This type of therapy is therapy is dangerous…why??dangerous…why??
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Types of DreamsDaydreams
– a level of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness.
– It occurs during our waking hours when we let our imagination carry us away
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Why do we daydream?
• They can help us prepare for future events
• They can substitute for impulsive behavior
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Lucid Dreams• The conscious perception of one's state
while dreaming – occurs when you realize you are dreaming – "Wait a second. This is only a dream!" – results in a much clearer ("lucid")
experience and usually enables direct control over the content of the dream
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Lucid Dreams
Vanilla Sky- Lucid Dreams>
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Nightmares• Dreams of particular intensity, with content
that the sleeper finds disturbing– related either to physiological causes, such as a
high fever – or to psychological ones, such as unusual trauma
or stress in the sleeper's life
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Reoccurring Dreams
• Recurring dreams repeat themselves with little variation in story or theme.
Have You had one???Have You had one???
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Dreams of Absent Minded Transgression (DAMT)
• Dreams where the individual dreaming absent mindedly performs an action that they have been trying to stop – withdrawal dreamswithdrawal dreams
• (a classic example is a smoker trying to quit dreams of lighting a cigarette).
• Subjects that have had DAMT dreams have reported awaking with intense feelings of guilt
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Fantasy Prone Personalities
• Someone who imagines and recalls experiences with lifelike vividness and who spends considerable time fantasizing
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To Satisfy our own Wishes
““Wish-fulfillment theory”Wish-fulfillment theory”
• Freud – “dreams are the key to understanding our inner conflicts”
• Dreams are our expressions of our wishes
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To File away Memories
Information –processing Information –processing TheoryTheory– sorting and sifting through information to aid memory
storage or memory removal
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To Develop and preserve neural pathways
Physiological function Physiological function theorytheory
• provides stimulation for our brain
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To make sense of random activity in the brain
Activation-synthesis Activation-synthesis TheoryTheory
• The minds attempt to make sense of random neural activity
• This might explain why many dreams do not make sense