PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Freud’s wish-fulfillment theory: dreams provide a “psychic safety valve” – expressing otherwise unacceptable feelings; contain manifest (remembered) content and a deeper layer of latent content (hidden meaning). consolidate our memories.

Detailed explanation-2: -Memory consolidation involves the integration of multiple experiences and the extraction of generalities. In dreams, the intermingling of memory fragments into novel and sometimes bizarre combinations could reflect this adaptive process.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to the information processing theory, this concept and dreaming are linked. While a person dreams, information learned during the day is transferred into their memories. As our bodies are in REM sleep, knowledge is secured and organized within our minds, and irrelevant details are erased.

Detailed explanation-4: -The self-organization theory of dreaming proposes that the sleeping brain is a self-organizing system that can combine discontinuous and incongruous neuronal signals (i.e., different elements of dreams) into a relatively continuous narrative during sleep (Kahn and Hobson, 1993; Kahn et al., 2000, 2002).