PSYC 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lucid Dream
15 Dec 2017
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A. a. dreams evolved for a safe way to practice getting away from predators: threat-simulation theory: six propositions. Prop 3: can test the degree to which ur lifestyle affects your dream content. Prop 6: many of us still dream of monsters or being chased. Not testable: cant simulate ancestral environment: testing the threat-simulation theory. A. a. dreams are more negative than real life: nature of threatening event. Failures: what actually happen to ppl a lot. Don"t typically dream of getting sick as you would in getting hurt. Potentially due to the lack of being able to rehearse preventing. Difficult to say that dreams are activation synthesis because your experiences of getting sick don"t quite match up numerically in the frequency of getting sick in dreams. If dreams are a way to practice threats Threat rehearsal mechanism is only really stimulated when you are stimulated by threats in real life. Threats in nightmare --> nightmares: continuity hypothesis of dreaming.
