The document outlines 3 theories of dreams:
1) Psychological functioning remains intact during sleep.
2) There is a lessening of psychological activity during sleep, and dreams are a reaction to disturbances using material from the day.
3) Dreams allow access to psychological activity that cannot be accessed while awake, acting as a "free play of the mind" to refresh and defend against waking life.
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1. 3 THEORIES OF DREAMS
A person’s psychological functioning changes
during sleep, but otherwise remains entirely
intact.
A lessening of psychological activity while
sleeping, what is left is material for dreams.
Dreams are reserved for “special” psychological
activity which can not be totally accessed while
awake.
2. ALL PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING REMAINS
INTACT WHILE SLEEPING
Flawed theory
Would this be the case when psychological
functioning is placed in a condition to which it
is not adapted (i.e. sleep).
3. A LESSENING OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ACTIVITY
WHILE SLEEPING.
Dream material comes to the dreamer while
sleeping.
Dreams are reactions to slight sleep
disturbances, from both within and from
outside of the dreamer.
Dreams are a reaction to these disturbances.
4. A LESSENING OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ACTIVITY
WHILE SLEEPING.
People rarely dream about the most
significant parts of their day.
Issues that have been fully resolved never
appear in dreams.
Dream content are usually waking events
that have not attained adequate recognition
on the part of the dreamer.
5. A LESSENING OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ACTIVITY
WHILE SLEEPING.
Dreams are a psychological reaction of these
events that reach the conscious level while
sleeping.
These events affected the dreamers senses
more than they affected their minds.
The less that these events affect the dreamers
consciousness, but the more it affected the
senses, the more likely it is that it will become
dream material.
6. A LESSENING OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ACTIVITY
WHILE SLEEPING.
If we could not dream we would all become
mentally disturbed due to the large amount of
unsolved thought bouncing around in our
minds.
7. DREAMS ARE RESERVED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL
ACTIVITY WHICH CAN NOT BE ACCESSED WHILE
AWAKE.
Dreams are “free play” of the mind.
Dreams are the way in which the mind
refreshes itself.
Dreams are a defense against the
commonality of waking life.
8. DREAMS ARE RESERVED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL
ACTIVITY WHICH CAN NOT BE ACCESSED WHILE
AWAKE.
Dreams are free of all reality, but uses
material from the dreamers waking life.
The dream expresses itself in visual images,
not the thoughts or actions of waking life.
9. DREAMS ARE RESERVED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL
ACTIVITY WHICH CAN NOT BE ACCESSED WHILE
AWAKE.
However, dreams do not stop at the visual
images. The dreamers thoughts give rise to
actions in dreams.
Notas del editor
Summary of other dream theorists. The focus of the book was on the second and third theory.
Under this theory, human beings would not dream if these internal and external disturbances did not occur while sleeping.
These “facts” are debatable in my opinion. Does this mean that dream content contains repressed feelings. To expand on this theory further, humans do not dream of traumatic events in their lives until other events start to over shadow them.
Expanding on this further, dreaming can be considered the way in which the humans heal the sore spots in their minds.
Is the implication that the content of dreams indicative of the dreamers internal character?
A example of this would be the dreamer finding money in the street. The dreamers mind then adds the action of picking up the money.
