1. UNROMANCING THE DREAM
By: Arya Kirkhope

2. John Allen Hobson And Robert McCarley
-Claimed dreams are nothing more than your attempt to interpret random electrical impulses produced automatically in your brain during REM sleep

3. -believed that dreams are triggered automatically by basic physiological processes
-there is no censor distorting the true meaning to protect you from your unconscious wishes

4. -Brain is activated during REM sleep (rapid eye movement sleep) and generates its own original information

5. What they found
Part of brain that controls physical movement and processing information was equally as active as it is when we are awake
Spinal cord stops body from moving to prevent us from harming ourselves during sleep

6. REM sleep came at regular and predictable time intervals
Found “dream state generator” which is pontine brain stem

7. When Pontine brain stem was tampered with, animals went weeks without REM sleep

8. Main Points Dreaming is not psychological but physiological
Dreams don’t have to do with wishes or memories or stories, it is just electrical energy
Images come to match data generated in brain stem
When we wake up, there is a change in chemicals which is why we don’t remember dreams