Dreams

Manifest Content: the remembered storyline of a dream.
Latent Content: the underlying meaning of a dream
Why do we dream?
Freud's wish-fulfillment Theory
*dreams are the key to understanding our inner conflicts.
* idea and thoughts that are hidden in out unconscious
* manifest and lantent content
Information-processing Theory
*Dreams act to sort out and understand the memories that you experience that day.
* REM sleep does increase after stress event.
Physiological function theories
that studies the soul, the mind, and the relationship of life and mind to the functions of the body
Activation-synthesis Theory
* during the night our brainstem releases random neural activity, dreams may be a way to make sense of that activity