dream analysis

• solms used PET scans to highlight active regions the brain during dreaming
• solms findings- rational part of the brain inactive while memory and motivation areas were very active during rem sleep
• what is 'the royal road to unconscious'


  dreams are a reflection of unconscious processes
• freud believed that dreams have two levels of meaning, manifest content (surface level) and latent content (hidden)
• freud believed that dreams showed symbolic versions of our unacceptable desires
• while dreaming Freud believed that the ego gets suppressed while the id s given free reign
• manifest content- the content of the dream that is recalled by the dreamer, disguising the latent content.
• latent- the underlying 'true' meaning of the dream