State of Consciousness: Dreams

Question 1

Manifest content

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Latent content

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Wish-fulfillment

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Activation-synthesis theory

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Lucid dreaming

Answer 5

One controls or influences their dream experience

Question 6

Dream-initiated lucid dreaming

Answer 6

When one is aware that they are dreaming

Question 7

Wake-initiated lucid dreaming

Answer 7

One can go directly to lucid dreaming from a wakened state

Question 8

Psychoanalytic theory

Answer 8

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