Website review: Psychology Today: Dreams: Night Sch...
deusdiabolus discovered this in Psychology
•18 reviews since Dec 11, 2007
psychology, dreams, dreaming
•psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php
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deusdiabolus discovered 7 months ago- Your dreams may be your training ground for your life.
- Innomen rated 3 months ago
- http://innomen.blogspot.com/2008/03/dreams-threats-or-opportunity.html
- Gillzy rated 5 months ago
- Interesting, dreams are just your brains way of preparing yourself for things that will go on in your life... I'm off to dream about kissing the Irish Gerrard Butler from PS I Love You... should that happen to occur in everyday life... ;P
- TruDann rated 5 months ago
- Cool psychology article about REM sleep and dreams.
- chrysallis rated 6 months ago
- Finnish psychologist Antti Revonsuo contends that dreams are a training ground in which animals and people alike go over the behaviors that are key to their survival. A dream researcher at the University of Turku, in Finland, Revonsuo believes that dreams are a sort of nighttime theater in which our brains screen realistic scenarios. This virtual reality simulates emergency situations and provides an arena for safe training. As Revonsuo puts it, "The primary function of negative dreams is rehearsal for similar real events, so that threat recognition and avoidance happens faster and more automatically in comparable real situations." Faced with actual life-or-death situations--traffic accidents, terrorist attacks, street assaults--some people report entering a mode of calm, rapid response, reacting automatically, almost without thinking. Afterward, they often say the episode felt unreal, as if it were all a dream. Threat simulation, Revonsuo believes, is why. [words from the page] Whether you agree or disagree with Revonsuo's ideas, this is another interesting theory in the on-going debate on why we dream.
- laportama rated 6 months ago
- One need NOT agree to find this worth reading.
- home8896 rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "She contends that the purpose of dreaming is "as broad as all waking thought. That's why I say dreams are really just thinking in a different biochemical state."" I concur. The majority of my dreams are not about conflict. Some are truly bizarre, but seem to be equally about fantasy as fear. And as a priestess, I heard thousands of dreams, too. There are too many things they seem to be about.
- heartofthecity rated 6 months ago
- provocative theory, needs more science
- PaiNinTheA rated 6 months ago
- an extremely interesting perspective on why we dream and what their purpose is... enlightening
- triplestuffdoreo rated 6 months ago
- interesting article on dreams i still think dreams are just random night thoughtfarts
- DY357LX rated 6 months ago
- Finally! An interesting Stumble!
