Understanding the Science of Dreams: A Look into the Dreaming Brain, Slides of Psychology

Download Understanding the Science of Dreams: A Look into the Dreaming Brain and more Slides Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! ingsrain By: Brian Austin & yes 2 he Dream 4 The Dreaming Brain • The brain is an amazing organ, and it is interesting to discover the correlation between dreams and the brain and also what goes on while we sleep. • Replacing the mysterious view of dreams with an actual understanding of modern dream science gives us a better picture of the relationship between dreams and the brain. The dreaming brain • The chemistry in the brain changes when some parts of the brain are reactivated during sleep and others are not. • When we are awake certain neurotransmitters allow us to be able to have short-term memory. While we are dreaming, the chemistry changes in a way that we lose very quickly what we have just dreamt. The dreaming brain • when we are awake we can look around and know where we are, what we are doing, and what is going on. Basically, we can reality check. When we are dreaming we cannot do this. The reality check is the dream itself. • So because of the changes in the brain our dreams just unfold for us without us controlling them. Unless you know how to lucid dream we cannot decide how the dream unfolds. The dreaming brain • Because of the areas that are active in the brain while we dream, anything can happen in our dreams and the brain becomes hyper-associative which means we are more able to think outside the box than while we are awake. Joe griffin: the dreaming brain • A research psychologist Joe Griffin purposed the expectation fulfillment theory of dreaming. This theory states that there are three principles of dreaming, which are: dreams are metaphorical interpretations, dreams are expectations that produce emotional responses that are not acted upon during the day become dreams during sleep, and dreaming is a way of dealing with emotional arousal by completing the expectations in our dreams that we did not complete when awake. THE DREAMING BRAIN 700% Sleep Cycle Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 alts 24 Stage 5 period fatal) Wea WAY A aecterttera To | etka] rr) hey @@ 12-15% @ 20-25% ere) oe Breathin eee mE E Rapid aye pevesi pea Oo cal Lib P al movernent. tat heart rate eT at wth ee hl! down. slows. Slight Pee rd breathing. speed up and Pree Ee ry] Dt) Limited musala dreaming ra es ee rede ge bbe LL ty a ob By a ete REFERENCES • Barrett, D., & Woodford, J. (2013). Dreams. Retrieved from http://www.asdreams.org • Joan, L. (2013). Real Meaning of Dreams. Retrieved from http://www.realmeaningofdreams.com/what- are-dreams.html