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19 September 2016
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Domhoff, G.
William.
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2016.
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Dream research and the study of dreams is
This citation broke down very
constantly being changed and monitored.
briefly and very basically the
As of most recent discoveries, dreams serve first developing studies of
no purpose. Sigmund Freud, the most
dream research and how those
famous and influential dream scientist and
theories have been disproven
researcher of the century, originally believed over time as science and
that the function of dreams was to preserve
technology develop.
as much sleep as possible. However, his
theory has been disproven by more recent
I always thought that dreams
studies proving that you dream on average
were your bodys way of telling
six times per night. Following Freud, Carl
you something or deeper
Jung believed that dreams were there as a
thoughts that your brain hides,
way of making up for the thoughts and
but it turns out that they really
actions undeveloped by your woken self.
serve no psychological purpose.
Since we remember a select few of our
dreams, if any at all, the point that dreams
This source led me to further
serve a purpose is false in the sense that if
research how dreams work and
they were important our brains would store
what a dream really is.
them so we could remember them when we
awoke. In this new age of technology, the
best way to summarize the purpose of a
dream is your brains way of clearing out all
of the thoughts and memories processed that
day. Despite having no specific
psychological functions, many cultures use
dreams as a way of diagnosing illnesses or
predicting the future.
A dream is a way of thinking when the brain This source led me to continue
has little activity, is blocking out external
researching what dreams are
sources, and the body is shut down. A
and how they work.
dream is considered to be real because it
involves out human emotions, particularly
sight and sound, and because they involved
human emotions. What we remember in the
morning is a memory of what we believed
we experienced the night before during our
sleep. No one knows for sure what a dream
is or what its purpose is, but as scientists
further their research, connections have
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