By: Shanara Fleming &
Nhi Truong
A
dream is a variety of emotions, images,
and thoughts all put together that occur
during REM sleep. (Rapid Eye Movement)
 Some researchers believe that dreams have
no purpose at all, while others believe that
they have a meaning or that they are
biologically beneficial.
 Psychoanalytic
Freud
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Theory of Dreams – Sigmund
He believed that dreams represented repressed
wishes or unvoiced desires.
As a result, our desires become a part of our
dreams.
 Activation-Synthesis
Model of Dreaming – J.
Allan Hobson & Robert McClarley
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They believe that when we dream, the dreams
during REM sleep drives our limbic system,
hippocampus, and amygdala to generate signals
in which our brain tries to interpret. These are
what we know as dreams.
 While
we sleep, our brain takes in outside
sources such as the television and tries to
interpret it in the dream. This could be seen
in many cartoons or movies.
 Another theory thinks that it’s a method of
clearing up the mind and to start anew for
the next day.
 There’s also a model where many theories
are combined. It starts off with thoughts and
then it closes when emotions are mixed with
the ideas.
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-Dreams affect teenagers like any other people
from good dreams to nightmares.
-Daydreaming for one, improves creativity and
abstract thinking.
-For example, Arthur Fry created the well-known
post-it notes thanks to daydreaming in church.
-Dreams can leave teenagers emotional or in
thought since their adolescent years is known for
finding their identity.
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-Most dreams are about social interactions, because
that’s what people are most interested in.
-When people are awakened from REM sleep, they
usually report a narrative involving the dreamer, with
vivid visual detail, unpleasant emotions, an
aggressive social interaction and occasional bizarre
and improbable events.
-Often the emotions associated with a dream go on
throughout the day thereby taking their effects on
mood and behavior during waking life.
-Kuiken and Sikora found that 13% of 168 respondents
to a questionnaire on dream recall reported that
they, at least 12 times in the past year, had had
dreams that significantly influenced their daytime
mood
 -Why
do we dream? The answer to this is still
a mystery.
-Men tend to have more aggressive dreams
with twice the men than women while
women tend to dream longer and have more
people in them with equal genders.
-80% of dreams are in color
-Controlling your dreams is possible. Lucid
dreams are where this usually happens.
 http://psychology.about.com/od/statesofcon
sciousness/p/dream-theories.htm
 http://library.thinkquest.org/C005545/englis
h/dream/function.htm
 http://psychology.about.com/od/statesofcon
sciousness/tp/facts-about-dreams.htm
 http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/ch
ristine-duvivier/200809121016
 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/drea
m-catcher/201105/the-impact-dreams-yoursocial-life