Dreams

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Importance of Dreams in ancient cultures and one example

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They felt it increase the chance of divine attention and blessing / curing. Dream incubation.

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Dream incubation

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A special location to have a dream for a specific issue or source

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Brain waves associated with stages of sleep

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Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta

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Aristotle's view of Dreams

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Dreams are normal occurrences, they are not touched by God

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Aristotle's reasons for arguing that dreams do not contain prophecies

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Because common people have them. If God was sending them only the best and brightest would receive them

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St Augustine's view of morality and dreams

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Dreams are happenings, not true events

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Flanigan's objections to Augustine

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Sometimes dreams are voluntary, mental states are not immune to moral evaluation, dreams Express aspects of our character that we may want to modify

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Descartes Dream argument

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Dream argument effects senses. Evil Genius causes doubt of rational facilities. Powerful Deceiver cannot doubt doubting

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Condensation

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Two or more items in one form

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Displacement

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Latent content being concealed by trivial Focus

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Considerations of representability

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Latent thoughts become visual representations or images

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Id

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Primal instincts

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Ego

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Conscious mind

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Super ego

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You are higher nature

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Manifest dream

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Content of the dream that can be consciously remembered

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Latent dream

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Hidden wishes and Fantasies where gratification is denied

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Jung's Collective unconscious

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Part of conscious mind to ride from ancestral memory

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Jungian archetypes

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The self. The Shadow. The anima and animus

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Plato's three parts soul

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Appetite lower, rational middle, spirited highest

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Hobson activation synthesis theory

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Brainstem randomly stimulates the midbrain and the spikes are synthesized in higher brain

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Crick and mitchisons ideas about function of Dreams

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Dreams are meaningless and have no role, we dream to forget and get rid of excess memories

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Flanigan's argument for Consciousness and sleep being adoptions

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Consciousness allows us to better understand and predict the world. Sleep refreshes and heals us during Darkness

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Flanigan's argument for dreams being spandrels of sleep

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Dreams do not allow us to reproduce better or prolong our lives. Like smoke from a train, it has no practical use

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Atti Revosuo threat simulation Theory

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More threats equal more dreams. Get to practice high-risk situations to better react when they occur

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Criticisms of TST

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Dreams too bizarre for practice

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Points in favor of ichikawa imagination model

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Truly seeing something and mental images have same neural mechanism but still different

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Objections to imagination model

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Cannot will away the sensation in the room. We cannot banish sensation away like imagery

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Difference between a percept and imagery

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Double vision - the second apple is a percept and does not correspond to physical object. Imagining and extra Apple - you can see and apple and perceive the perceptive it. But you can also Imagine an apple overlapping the original. It's a product of mental imagery

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Difference between belief and imagining

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Imagine things are more like fictions, instead of beliefs where we connect something to being real and factual.

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Positivists view on dreams

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Cannot recall dreams except through memory

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Norman Malcolm's reasons for challenging the received view of Dreams

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We use introspection to review dreams, but these memories are not the dreams themselves.

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Dan Dennetts reasons for challenging the received view of Dreams

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Anecdotal the composition of the dream is affected by external stimuli

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Stephen Laberge experiments with lucid dreamers

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Have them wiggle eyes at set intervals as they slept.

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John Sutton and Melanie rosen's vicarious dreams

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Dreams that are not first person, you find yourself other than yourself.

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Flanagan's distinction between self constituting and self-expressive

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Self constituting - what truly makes me me. Self-expressive - cheering OU. I'm a sooner b******!

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Who is the protagonist in a vicarious dream? Two possibilities proposed by Sutton and Rosen

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Different gender, an animal, or even an inanimate object

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Two features or sequences common and reports of near-death experiences

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Feelings of Peace, joy, and not wanting to return. Visions of saints, religious figures, deceased relatives.

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Autoscopy

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The experience in which an individual perceives the surrounding environment from a different perspective, from a position outside his or her own body.

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Bardo

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The intermediate stage between death in the next life

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Clear light

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The most fundamental nature of the Mind

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Epiphenomenal

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By product that has no role

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Orthodox view of Dreams

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Dreams are misleading sensory experiences and false beliefs

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Metaphysics

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The study of the nature of reality

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Near-death experiences

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Stories that people were count as their experiences after going through clinical death and being resuscitated

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Phenomenology

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Study of appearances, how things appear to the subject

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Qualia

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The what it's like experience of our subjective consciousness

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Received view of Dreams

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Experiences that occur during sleep which we can recall upon waking

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Positivism

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Valid knowledge is derived from logic, math, and buy verified sensory experiences