I read an article called "Night School" by Jay Dixit. The article was in Psychology Today's November/December 2007 issue. The article was all about Annti Revonsuo's thoughts about dreams and nightmares. Revonsuo thought that dreams were the time that humans and animals go over behaviors that are key to their survival. Revonsuo talks about how majority of our dreams are of us being chased or in a dangerous situations or other negative emotions. Revonsuo says that we have these dreams so that we can practice in case the situation comes up in real life we will be preprared to react automatically.
This article correlates with Ch. 4 when we talked about dreams and Freud. Freud said that dreams are a disguised form of wish fulfillment. He also said they are ways of satisfying unconscious urges or resolving unconscious conflicts. I found this article fascinating because it was a new way of looking at dreams than what we had discussed in class. There is a study that was done in the magazine on rats and not allowing them to have dreams. After the rats did not dream for a few nights they were put in situations to see if they would act the same. The rats were acting as if they were lost in every situation, and did not respond like they should have. This experiment helps to prove Revonsuo's theory, but some people are still not convinced.
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In Chapter 4, according to the activation-synthesis theory, dreams are meaningless byproducts of REM sleep. These dreams probably do not mean a thing. Chapter 4 also tells us that nightmares are frightening dreams that occur during REM sleep
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