PSYC 3780H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Malleus Maleficarum, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dream Interpretation
13 Dec 2016
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The brain creates images that directly bridge to the dreamer"s waking life: ie: when you"re sick, you"ll have illness imagery vs. when you"re healthy and have healthy imagery. Consciousness is continuous from waking state to sleep state. During sleep, the brain continues to process, and dream activity is connected to this level of consciousness. Dream interpretation is practiced all over the world; all cultures have some form of dream interpretation. For historical reasons, it was stopped in the christian world because dreams were associated wrongly with witchcraft, and once this was established, it was hard to dissociate this connection. Mesopotamians, 7th century b. c: where the first record of dreams have been found, they were written on stone tablets. Since then, the history of dream science continued in all cultures, hebrew, egyptian, They all have a different theory and different ideas as to why we dream and how they are generated.
