Lucid Dreams And Daydreams Research Paper

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When a person either shuts their eyes at night to sleep or zones out during the day they may experience one of these amazing phenomena known as a dream or daydream. Both dreams and daydreams seem to form effortlessly in our heads while we either sleep or just thinking about something deeply. Specifically for dreams they develop while a person is in their REM (Rapid Eye Movement) point of their sleep cycle which happens various times throughout a humans sleep cycle and can vary from person to person. Daydreaming on the other hand is a bit different and can happen anytime throughout a person's waking life. Then there are Lucid Dreams which is a standard dream but the dreamer has a realization that they are dreaming within the dream leading to …show more content…

Dreams for a long time have been quite an elusive subject in sciences and history. Great psychological thinkers such as Sigmund Freud and his understudy Carl Jung have studied and proposed several theories about the soul purpose of a dream. “Freud’s theory centred around the notion of repressed longing -- the idea that dreaming allows us to sort through unresolved, repressed wishes. Carl Jung (who studied under Freud) also believed that dreams had psychological importance, but proposed different theories about their meaning.” (Sander van der Linden 1). Linden explains in his article that Jung and Freud were the first two scientist to put forth widely known modern theories. This set a great landmark for dreams and why they exist for human beings and other animals. Linden also adds later technological advancements and those two theories are “activation synthesis hypothesis” and “threat simulation theory”. Linden explains that the activation synthesis

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