What do dreams do? [electronic resource] / First edition

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자료유형	단행본
서명/저자사항	What do dreams do? [electronic resource] / Sue Llewellyn.
개인저자	Llewellyn, Sue, author.
판사항	First edition.
발행사항	Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2020.
형태사항	1 online resource (x, 234 pages) : illustrations (some color)
ISBN	9780192550903 019255090X 9780192550897 0192550896
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
내용주기	Prologue: What Do Dreams Do? -- 1. What Is a Dream? -- Part I. Dream Patterns, Dream Basics, and Dream Backstory -- 2. Dream to See Patterns -- 3. Dream to Associate -- 4. Dream to Survive -- 5. Dream to Remember -- Part II. Dream Emotions, Meanings, and Unconscious Impact -- 6. Dream to Emote -- 7. Dream to Decide (and to Act) -- 8. Dream to Predict -- 9. Dream to Reveal -- Part III. Dream Creativity and Craziness -- 10. Dream to Create -- 11. Dream to Go Crazy? -- Part IV. Dreams as Patterns (in brief), Other Dream Theories, and Futures -- 12. Dreams as Patterns, Fit with Freud and Other Dream Theorists -- Epilogue: What Dreams May Come?
요약	Dreams are a puzzle. We don't know what to make of them. Familiar faces, identifiable places, and remembered experiences appear but dreams mix them up. Why is this? Is dreaming just a frivilous mental activity, or might there be a greater purpose to dreaming. This book argues that dreams take people, places, and events out of their waking life context to identify complex patterns in their experience--patterns that on first glance might seem to be chaotic. It considers that dreaming brains evolved to identify non-obvious associations. For example, throughout evolution, you didn't want to get sick, so survival depended on being well enough to anticipate the non-obvious patterns of predators and human competitors, whilst securing access to food and water. Making these associations might have driven many, if not all, brain functions. The book shows how these dream associations might support memory, emotional stability, creativity, unconscious decision-making and prediction, and even possibly even contribute to mental illness. Exploring the evolutionary significance of dreaming, and showing the reader how to identify patterns in their own dreams, this book will be compelling reading for anyone interested in psychology, consciousness, and the arts.
일반주제명	Dreams. Dream interpretation. Dreams --Psychology. Dream interpretation. Dreams.
분류기호(DDC)	154.63
언어	영어
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