PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Lucid Dream, Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, Night Terror
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More vivid, visual, and emotional than nrem dreams. Individual is aware of dreaming and can often influence content while dreaming. Freudian interpretation: believed dreams satisfy unconscious sexual and aggressive desires and must be disguised: manifest content: content of a dream as recalled by a dreamer, latent content: underlying meaning of a dream. Problem-focused interpretation: dreams are an expression of current ongoing concerns and can resolve or clarify current problems: relate images to things in your waking life. Activation-synthesis hypothesis: dreams are the attempt to make sense of the random firing of brain cells during sleep: people impose meaning on the random mental activity. Somnambulism (sleepwalking): occurs during partial arousal from stage 4 sleep. Sleep terror: happens during partial arousal from stage 4 sleep; usually begins with a piercing scream. Nightmares: frightening dreams that occur during rem sleep.
