What (the fuck) do dreams mean? Do you figure we can control them? Like somehow, we dream what we want to dream? Or are they more like a message to us from God or our unconscious? I found these notes from my 11th grade psychology class:
V. Dream Theories
a. Wish Fulfillment (Freud): the purpose of dreams is for a person to satisfy ungratified needs from waking hours through wishful thinking in dreams.
b. Problem Solving View (Cartwright): the purpose of dreams is to work through everyday problems. Dreams allow people to engage in creative thinking about problems because they are not restrained by logic or reason.
c. Activation-Synthesis (Hobson and McCarley): dreams are simply side effects of neural activation in the brain. Neurons firing in the lower brain send random signals to the cortex, and the cortex then constructs a dream to make sense out of these signals.
What do you think?
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