cast doubt on the Freudian, Jungian, and activation-synthesis theories
for - validation - alternative to Freud's explanation of dreams - dream cognition - dream research
Validation - I've never subscribed to the Freudian interpretation of dreams and this seems to make more sense
- Four very different types of unexpected research findings from inside and outside the sleep laboratory since the 1950s
- make it possible to suggest a new cognitive approach to
- dreaming and
- dream content,
- an approach that has the potential to be extended into a neurocognitive theory as well.
- These findings, which are discussed throughout this article,
- cast doubt on the
- Freudian,
- Jungian, and
- activation-synthesis theories
- that dominated thinking about dreams in the twentieth century.
- Those three theories all began with the idea that
- there were major differences between
- waking cognition and
- dreaming,
- but the findings presented in this article suggest that
- there are far more parallels between
- dreaming and
- waking thought
- than they realized (Domhoff, 2003b).