- A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind
- Manifest Content : the remembered story-line of a dream
- Latent Content : the underlying meaning of a dream
Why do we dream?
Freud's wish-fulfillment Theory
- Dreams are the key to understanding our inner conflicts
- Ideas and thoughts that are hidden in our unconscious
- Manifest and latent content
Information-Processing Theory
- Dreams act to sort out and understand the memories that you experience that day
- REM sleep does increase after stressful events
Activation-Synthesis Theory
- during the night our brainstem releases random neural activity, dreams may be a way to make sense of that activity
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