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Deirdre Barrett is an American author and psychologist known for her research on dreams, hypnosis and imagery, and has written on evolutionary psychology.Barrett is a teacher at Harvard Medical School, [1] and a past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and of the American Psychological Association’s Div. 30, the Society for Psychological Hypnosis.
Activation-synthesis hypothesis. The activation-synthesis hypothesis, proposed by Harvard University psychiatrists John Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley, is a neurobiological theory of dreams first published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in December 1977. The differences in neuronal activity of the brainstem during waking and REM sleep ...
Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many ancient societies, such as those of Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be interpreted by people with these associated spiritual powers. In the modern era, various schools of ...
Carl Jung viewed dreams as a way to problem-solve through archetypal conflicts. Alfred Adler later expanded upon Jung’s theory, believing that dreams were a way of playing out inferiority complexes.
Flying. If you feel happy about flying in your dream, one typical interpretation is that you’re feeling a sense of freedom. This might be because you’ve risen above something in your life ...
Lucid dreaming appears to be a kind of "hybrid" state where you aren’t fully awake but are also not quite asleep. Neuroscientists don’t know exactly how and why it happens. But they have some ...
Sleep and dreaming aid the brain in making connections, solving problems, and shifting perspectives, which are all crucial in the creative process. They may even play a role in neuroplasticity ...
Dreams and reports of dreams are produced in distinct states of consciousness resulting in a delay between the dream event and its recall while awake. During this time lag forgetting may occur resulting in an incomplete report. Forgetting is proportional to the amount of time elapsed between the experience and its recall. [2]