The Significance Of Dreaming

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Psychology

 

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Anita G

 

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November 23, 2012

 

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Freud said, "The dream hides not a divine message, but a wish from the dreamer's unconscious" (Boxer 1). He felt that all dreams were tied to desires that a person wasn't aware of consciously, and dreaming allowed these desires to be fulfilled (Evans 84). By way of contrast, Dr. J. Allen Hobson does not subscribe at all to Freud's psychological notions, and suggests that dreams are the product of brain stem activity...
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J. Allen Hobson does not subscribe at all to Freud's psychological notions, and suggests that dreams are the product of brain stem activity. He says a wish can't be a cause of a dream because the non-thinking part of the brain, the brain stem, activates a dream. "Hobson believes that neurophysiology even explains why dreams seem so emotionally loaded?because the brain stem activates the emotional center--the limbic brain?and because the ?startle network,' the part of the brain stem that speeds the heart and breathing is turned on" (Boxer 3)...
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