1. EQ: What are the different dream theories?

2. Bellringer Look over your dream journal
Do you see any patterns? Did you have the same dream or type of dream more than once? Do you think your dreams mean something? Pick one dream or aspect of a dream and explain what you think it means.

3. Dreams If woken from REM dreaming reported 78% of the time
Most of the time people do not know they are dreaming
Lucid dreams-awareness of dreaming (not common)

4. Dream theories 1. Wish Fulfillment
Psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud
Dreams are disguised wishes of the unconscious mind
Dreams constructed to express desires in confusing symbolic manner to protect dreamer
Meaning of dream is hidden

5. 2. Off-line dream theory
Dreaming consolidates and stores information gathered during the day to allow the brain to work more efficiently
People spend more time in REM sleep after learning difficult material
Less learning occurs if denied REM sleep

6. 3. Activation –synthesis theory
Dreams are the forebrain’s attempt to interpret random neural activity coming from the midbrain during sleep
Content related to your daily experiences but dreams have no real hidden meaning