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Introduction 3
The Theory of Dreams 4
Conclusion 9
Literature 10
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Introduction
There is no doubt that for thousands of years many people were fascinated by such a common thing as dream. But being usual to us dream still remains a mystery. We have many questions about its nature and only few answers.
Many people have been asking themselves for years “Why do we dream?”, but only recently dreams have been subjected to empirical research and concentrated scientific study. For many years they were only a source of inspiration for poets and a subject of speculations for common people who thought that dreams contains some predictions about their future.
First of all we should answer a question about the key word of our essay “What is a dream?” We call “a dream” all those images, emotions and thoughts which we can see while we are sleeping. Dreams can be very real and vivid or vague and unrealistic. We can feel joy or fright in the dream, and when our dreams are unpleasant and frightful we call them nightmares.
There is a common opinion among the psychologists that dreams help us to sort through event of the day or our problems and things that require a lot of attention. Besides there is a theory that we dream in order to exercise various neural connections that some researchers believe affect certain types of learning.
In our essay we are going to describe several the most interesting and influential theories explaining why do we dream and what are the dreams.
So there are several problems which we are going to solve in our essay:
1) to describe Freud’s theory of dreams guiding by his book The Interpretation of Dreams;
2) to gave a characteristic to modern theories considering theirs pros and contras.
To solve these problems we explore several books and essay on the dream theory. All of them are pointed out in the part Literature of our work.
Список использованной литературы
Literature
1. Freud S. The interpretation of dreams. Psychology Today, 2013. 106 p.
2. Hartman E. Why do we dream? Dreaming, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2006.
3. J.A. Hobson and K.J. Friston; Waking and dreaming consciousness: Neurobiological and functional considerations. Prog Neurobiol. 2012 July; 98(1): 82–98
4. Lohff David C. The Dream Directory: The Comprehensive Guide to Analysis and Interpretation. Courage Books, 2004. 320 p.