PSYC 191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sleep Paralysis, Waking Life, Heart Rate
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Discovered when prepping for tumor surgery (stimulate different areas in awake patient to find a safe spot to enter brain) reports of out of body support idea that dreams are another world. Dreams as omens or as psychic events: common reports of something happening in dreams and then happening in real life. May be due to chance: widely believed in. Association for the study of dreams- have dream sessions where everyone decides to dream about same thing, hoping that they will all share same experience. Dreams are related to and derived from waking life events in dreams: could experimentally expose people to things and see if they show up, evidence from dream reports: Dreams are culturally specific, individually specific, and mostly drawn from everyday life: dreams appear to be created from memory non-consciously retrievable memory. Pre-sleep, experimentally induced isolation, exercise, stress, and emotionally arousing scenes have only minor influences. But, these memories are competing with millions of other.
