Psychology 2011A/B Lecture 5: Chapter 4 – Sleep

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2011A/B
• Professor: Imants Baruss

Document Summary

Outline: dream theories, dreams are meaningless, dreams are meaningful in some way, dream contents, hypnagogic imagery, practical dream interpretation, lucid dreams, precognitive dreams. In rem sleep the brain in turned on (3/4 metabolic rate: synthesis. Makes up scenarios to correspond to scenarios that would happen if you were awake (synthesis) However, they differ because they are cognitive events: able to create narratives through loosely associated events, hill"s cognitive-experiential dream theory, cognitive schemes through which we interpret reality, when unrelated events happen (ex. 2: coming up with a rational meaning for symbols is an approximation of what the symbol is, aspects of our psyche that are not captured rationally. The development of life to an apex, then decline (cycle of life lecture) The human dilemma (what is the meaning of life) These are both examples of archetypes: dreams are a compensation of everyday activity.