Do Dreams Mean Anything?

Dreams have fascinated people since the beginning of recorded history.

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Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung worked on dream analysis, which was later explored by modern scientists.

According to neuroscientists, sleep is a period of intense neurological activity and our memories are reorganized.

Neurobiological theory of dreams (The Activation – Synthesis Hypothesis):
dream images are triggered by intense emotions that we experience during sleep.

Barnum Effect: 39 students performed an experiment, where they took a fake personality test to rate how accurate their dream interpretation is.

Neurocognitive Model of dreaming is a complicated theory of symbols in dreams.

According to the same Neurocognitive Model of dreaming, dreams help us to process our stressful experiences.

Our dreams may not be supernatural but they tell us something about how we feel.

The graduation animation was based on David Feldman’s podcast.