State of Consciousness: Dreams Flashcards

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Manifest content

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Obvious, literal meaning (breaks don’t work in dream)

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Latent content

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Underlying, symbolic or hidden meaning (don’t have control with ur life)

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Wish-fulfillment

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What one cannot have
Forbidden to have (in conscious reality)
Can’t have it-> creates tension -> compensatory and u dream about it

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Activation-synthesis theory

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Developed by researches HOBSON and MCCARLEY
indicates that neurons in the brain stem are activated during REM sleep
Neurons activate areas of the limbic system
The cortex seeks:
To synthesize and interpret this activity by creating quasi-meaning and results in dreaming

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Lucid dreaming

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One controls or influences their dream experience

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Dream-initiated lucid dreaming

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When one is aware that they are dreaming

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Wake-initiated lucid dreaming

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One can go directly to lucid dreaming from a wakened state

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Psychoanalytic theory

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Developed by sigmund Freud
Dreams are considered the “royal road to the unconscious” (doorway to the unconscious content)
Manifest and latent content
Dreams are compensatory; a wish-fulfillment

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