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The International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) is a multi-disciplinary [1] professional nonprofit organization for scientific dream research , [2] [3] founded in 1983 [4] and headquartered in the U.S. [5] [6]
An artist's imaginary depiction of a dream. In the field of psychology, the subfield of oneirology (/ ɒ n ɪ ˈ r ɒ l ə dʒ i /; from Ancient Greek ὄνειρον (oneiron) 'dream' and -λογία 'the study of') is the scientific study of dreams. Research seeks correlations between dreaming and knowledge about the functions of the brain ...
Most modern dream study focuses on the neurophysiology of dreams and on proposing and testing hypotheses regarding dream function. It is not known where in the brain dreams originate, if there is a single origin for dreams or if multiple regions of the brain are involved, or what the purpose of dreaming is for the body or mind.
Dream imagery can change quickly and is regularly of a bizarre nature, but reports also contain many images and events that are a part of day-to-day life. [9] In dreams there is a reduction or absence of self-reflection or other forms of meta-cognition relative to during waking life. [ 5 ]
The activation-synthesis hypothesis, proposed by Harvard University psychiatrists John Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley, is a neurobiological theory of dreams first published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in December 1977.
[E 21] The first step in Jungian psychotherapy is therefore to objectify the anima or animus through the study of dream series. The use of these concepts in the study of dreams was continued by Gaston Bachelard, who re-used them in La poétique de la rêverie (1987). The psychoanalytical philosopher explains that "pure dreaming, filled with ...
Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many ancient societies, such as those of Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be interpreted by people with these associated spiritual powers.
Dream consciousness is a term defined by the theorist of dreaming science J. Allan Hobson, M.D. as the memory of subjective awareness during sleep. According to the theory its importance for cognitive science derives from two perspectives. One is the brain basis for consciousness itself and the other is the interpretation of dreams.