Consciousness "Case Study Activity"

Please just your though. No internet sources. One page paper incorporating the below questions

Dream Analysis

TV, movies, and other popular media often portray dreams as highly significant and easily interpreted. However, scientists are deeply divided about the meaning of dreams and their relative importance. These differences in scientific opinion provide an excellent opportunity for you to practice the critical thinking skill of tolerance for ambiguity (vagueness, uncertainty).

To improve your tolerance for ambiguity (and learn a little more about your own dreams), begin by creating a dream diary over the next three days. Use your most vivid dream. Write a one-page paper incorporating the below questions. The following perspectives will also help you to analyze your dream.

Try to address the following questions:

1. According to the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic view, what might be the forbidden, unconscious fears, drives, or desires represented by your dream? Can you identify the manifest content versus the latent content? See your chapter to help distinguish between manifest and latent content.

2. How would the biological view, "the activation-synthesis hypothesis", explain your dream? Can you identify a specific thought that might have been stimulated and then led to this particular dream?

3. Psychologists from the cognitive perspective believe dreams provide important information, help us make needed changes in our lives, and even suggest solutions to real-life problems. Do you agree or disagree? Does your dream provide an insight that increases your self-understanding?

Having analyzed your dream from different perspectives, can you see how difficult it is to find the one right answer? Critical thinkers can synthesize the information and develop greater understanding, but no one single theory reveals the whole picture.