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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 were observed, and the hypothesis ...
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, 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.
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]
Improved problem-solving. Researchers found some evidence that lucid dreams can help people solve problems that deal with creativity (like a conflict with another person) more than with logic ...
Psychology and neuroscience of dreaming. “Dreams allow people to recall memories and process new information,” explains Hafeez. Sleep and dreaming aid the brain in making connections, solving ...
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.
Lucid dreaming is a brain state between REM sleep and being awake. Some lucid dreamers are able to influence their dream, changing the story, so to speak. This may be a good tactic to take ...
The basic steps of dream appreciation are: You write down your dream, then read it aloud to a group. The people in the group discuss your dream, exploring the emotions they might feel if they ...