PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Long-Term Memory, Psych, Psychoanalytic Theory
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Everyone dreams you might not remember or be able to track them. Run in real time the amount of time it takes you do something in a dream, is similar to amount of time in real life. Incorporate external events things that are happening in our environment not intense enough to wake up but we still receive them in our dreams. Unconscious battle going on in your brain of drives versus conscious bubbles up into conscious life. Unconscious issues might come through in our dreams access our unconscious through the observation of dreams. Manifest content what the dream is about. Latent content the context or underlying meaning of the dream this is key for understanding the unconscious. Some common themes but the latent content must be looked at in the context of the individual"s life. Activation synthesis random firing of neurons. But our brains are trying to organize information based on its natural functions.
