S&D Chp 10
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- Primitive Human Belief of Dreams
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- thought they had supernatural powers
- thought as merely a second existence in another world where one could communicate with distant friends, gods, etc
- Consciousness
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part of the human mind which is at the level of awareness.
**WE ARE CONSCIOUS WHILE DREAMING
- Unconsciousness
- part of the human mind that an individual is not aware of
- Randomness of Dreams
- - sudden scene shifts and inexplicable bizarre events
- Secondary Revision
- this is the process through which a person takes the sometimes incoherent and fragmentary recall of a dream experience and fills in the gaps in order to make the dream a coherent story that flows in a logical manner
- Dreaming
- life-like experience progressing in time that is accepted as real by the dreamer
- Sleep Mentation
- the process of thinking during sleep. it consists of abstract thoughts, words, neologisms; images with clear or almost no form; kaleidoscope flashing lights; imagery
- Vivid REM Type Dream
- vivid, complex, hallucinatory experience generally accepted as real by the dreamer and having a mostly logical progression in time. (most researchers believe these occur in REM)
- NREM Mental Activity
- does not follow REM criteria (isolated, abstract thoughts) not always a "dream"
- Dreaming brain often seems ____ active than the sleeping brain.
- more - (has to create world)
- Evidence suggests that sleep might "shut the gate" between short and long term _________.
- memory
- Stanford Sleep Lab compared vision and reality in the case of hypnotic hallucinations to see if images we dream are the same in complexity and vividness. Results: ____
- hypnotized subjects were told to "see a shoe" and when asked to describe it often expressed puzzlement over its strangely incomplete and flawed image.