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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.
Dreams are the GUARDIANS of sleep and not its disturbers." [41] Grandmother and Granddaughter Dream (1839 or 1840). Taras Shevchenko. A turning point in theorizing about dream function came in 1953, when Science published the Aserinsky and Kleitman paper [42] establishing REM sleep as a distinct phase of sleep and linking dreams to REM sleep. [43]
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 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
Jung and his followers, such as Marie Louise von Franz (for whom dreams are "the voice of human instinct") [1] and James Hillman, made a significant contribution to the science of dreams. Carl Gustav Jung proposed a dual reading of the dream in terms of object and subject, while representing the dream as a dramatic process with phases that shed ...
In the 17th century, the English physician and writer Sir Thomas Browne wrote a short tract upon the interpretation of dreams. Dream interpretation became an important part of psychoanalysis at the end of the 19th century with Sigmund Freud's seminal work The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung; literally "dream-interpretation"). [10]
The Science of Sleep (French: La Science des rêves, literally The Science of Dreams) is a 2006 surrealistic science fantasy comedy film written and directed by Michel Gondry. Starring Gael García Bernal , Charlotte Gainsbourg , Miou-Miou and Alain Chabat , the film stems from a bedtime story written by Sam Mounier, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] then 10 years old.
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.