{"product_id":"why-do-we-dream-analysis-of-various-dream-theories-from-ancient-egypt-to-the-present-von-theo-tebbe","title":"Why do we dream?","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,7, University of Osnabrück, course: Forging the American Mind - Literature, Philosophy and the Anticipation of Cognitive Science, language: English, abstract: Dreams can be seen as subjective phenomena that only become realities if we can\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eremember their contents after waking. But how many of you remember your dreams and why\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edo we dream at all? ¿ The first question can easily be answered: About 80% according to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estatistics (Jouvet 27). The answer to the second question, however, has puzzled humankind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor a long time and even today scientists do not agree on one explicit theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my term paper I will present various answers to the question of dreaming given by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edifferent dream analysts. At first, I will give a short historical overview on the role of dreams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand how they have been seen in different societies. Whereas the Ancient Egypt and the bible\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eattributed a supernatural element to dreams, Aristotle introduced the psychological character\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main work of my paper will be the analysis of three major perspectives on dream\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etheories: The psychoanalytical, the biological, and the cognitive perspective. Freud argued\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat dreams express unconscious desires and underlying wishes which he termed the latent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtent. In contrast, Hobson \u0026amp; McCarley believe that dreams are created because of random\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eactivity in the brain during a certain state of sleep (REM). More recent studies done by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStickgold try to be more precise. He argues that the brain is active during sleep because it tries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto identify new connections to learn new things from old memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a final step, I will apply the different dream theories on a dream from the movie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿Requiem for a Dream¿ (USA, 2000) in order to outline and compare their main features and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto show what a dream can tell us about the personality and the life of the dreamer according to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe three perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640635504\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAnalysis of various Dream Theories from Ancient Egypt to the Present\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640635504","offer_id":39426310275165,"sku":"9783640635504","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/8734c8b1-54ff-450d-bba7-2b15f7dbb6f8.jpg?v=1777695024","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/why-do-we-dream-analysis-of-various-dream-theories-from-ancient-egypt-to-the-present-von-theo-tebbe","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}