The F-Model of Dreaming
The F-Model of Dreaming

Author: Derek Lee

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-10-18

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9781700906090

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Almost everything we are told about dreaming is wrong. I want to set the record straight, and present you with the truth.Hi, my name is Derek Lee, and I have invested decades of work into bringing you this book. The F-Model of Dreaming is a unique presentation of my own conclusions regarding "what dreaming is" as well as a curation of many of the brightest ideas I have been blessed with finding along my journey.We use the term "dreams" to signify our wishes and desires, and this mis-conception is so engrained in our cultural heritage that Freud invented a system of dream interpretation to make sense of the fact that, when examined closely, dreams are typically anything but our manifest wishes. However, Freud made some giant errors (even though we owe him much). Dreaming is something very different from that which we would want to happen in our waking lives. Falling, fleeing, fighting, and a number of generic failures and mis-fortunes are the normal themes within dreams. This is true now and always has been, as evidenced by the earliest writings and artifacts regarding dreams.In my lifelong pursuit of the question "What are dreams?," I found that the dreaming mind is intertwined with our fables, fairy tales, philosophies, and religions. I re-discovered an ancient language used by the mind to speak to itself in the darkness of sleep. It turns out that dreaming can be understood by the "fight or flight" adage, combined with a host of other F-words. How convenient. And the cornerstone of the dreaming model I present is etched with two words: Failure & Fortitude. Rather than exist as a useless cacophony of neural noise, dreams actually prepare the waking mind for survival.Drawing from years of research and piecing together thousands of clues, I have curated for you the most complete story on the nature of dreaming. This includes not only a pithy history of dream theories and musings, but also the latest findings in cognitive-behavioral science, lucid dreaming, and even suggestions on how to get the most out of your relationship with your own dreams. Everything leading up to and including Freud's seminal work--The Interpretation of Dreams--and Jung and other colleagues after him, up through elucidations shared by Richard Feynman and Stephen LaBerge, and the breakthroughs that instigated Alcoholics Anonymous and CBT Therapy are all in here.For those with both a casual interest in dreaming, psychology, philosophy, and/or neuroscience, and for those who believe they have exhausted any of these topics, I think you will find plenty of gems in The F-Model of Dreaming. Oh, I also explain Consciousness through a N.O.V.E.L. conceptualization in this book. Yea, it's well worth the effort to obtain and finish this work.I'll see you inside.

When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds
When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds

Author: Antonio Zadra

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2021-01-12

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1324002840

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"A truly comprehensive, scientifically rigorous and utterly fascinating account of when, how, and why we dream. Put simply, When Brains Dream is the essential guide to dreaming." —Matthew Walker, author of Why We Sleep Questions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and as confounding and exciting today as when nineteenth-century scientists first attempted to unravel them. Why do we dream? Do dreams hold psychological meaning or are they merely the reflection of random brain activity? What purpose do dreams serve? When Brains Dream addresses these core questions about dreams while illuminating the most up-to-date science in the field. Written by two world-renowned sleep and dream researchers, it debunks common myths that we only dream in REM sleep, for example—while acknowledging the mysteries that persist around both the science and experience of dreaming. Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold bring together state-of-the-art neuroscientific ideas and findings to propose a new and innovative model of dream function called NEXTUP—Network Exploration to Understand Possibilities. By detailing this model’s workings, they help readers understand key features of several types of dreams, from prophetic dreams to nightmares and lucid dreams. When Brains Dream reveals recent discoveries about the sleeping brain and the many ways in which dreams are psychologically, and neurologically, meaningful experiences; explores a host of dream-related disorders; and explains how dreams can facilitate creativity and be a source of personal insight. Making an eloquent and engaging case for why the human brain needs to dream, When Brains Dream offers compelling answers to age-old questions about the mysteries of sleep.

The Nature and Functions of Dreaming
The Nature and Functions of Dreaming

Author: Ernest Hartmann

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 0199751773

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The Nature and Function of Dreaming presents a comprehensive theory of dreaming based on many years of psychological and biological research by Ernest Hartmann and others. Critical to this theory is the concept of a Central Image; in this volume, Hartmann describes his repeated finding that dreams of being swept away by a tidal wave are common among people who have recently experienced a trauma of some kind - a fire, an attack, or a rape. Dreams with these Central Images are not dreams of the traumatic experience itself, but rather the Central Image reveals the emotional response to the experience. Dreams with a potent Central Image, like the tidal wave, vary in intensity along with the severity of the trauma; this pattern was shown quite powerfully in a systematic study of dreams occuring before and after the September 11 attacks in New York.Hartmann's theory comprises three fundamental elements: dreaming is simply one form of mental functioning, occurring along a continuum from focused waking thought to reverie, daydreaming, and fantasy. Second, dreaming is hyperconnective, linking material more fluidly and making connections that aren't made as readily in waking thought. Finally, the connections that are made are not random, but rather are guided by the dreamer's emotions or emotional concerns - and the more powerful the emotion, the more intense the Central Image.

The Significance of Dreams
The Significance of Dreams

Author: Peter Fonagy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 0429922175

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This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from Freud's insights, but pursues psychoanalytic interest into both neuroscience and the modern psychoanalytic consulting room. The book looks at laboratory research on dreaming alongside the modern clinical use of dreams and links together clinical and empirical research, integrating classical ideas with the plurality of psychoanalytic theoretical constructs available to modern researchers. Psychoanalysts writing about dreams have traditionally represented the cutting edge of clinical and theoretical development, and this book is no exception. Many of the contributions, as well as the epistemological position taken by the writers, represent a kind of radical openness to new ways of thinking about the clinical situation and about theory. In line with the ambition of the editors, this volume represents an integration of theories and disciplines, and a scientific context for modern psychoanalysis. The link between clinical research and extraclinical research via the royal road of dreaming is a theme that runs through all the contributions.

Dreams of Other Worlds
Dreams of Other Worlds

Author: Chris Impey

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0691169225

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The story of unmanned space exploration, from Viking to today Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it. The journey begins with the Viking and Mars Exploration Rover missions to Mars, which paint a startling picture of a planet at the cusp of habitability. It then moves into the realm of the gas giants with the Voyager probes and Cassini's ongoing exploration of the moons of Saturn. The Stardust probe's dramatic round-trip encounter with a comet is brought vividly to life, as are the SOHO and Hipparcos missions to study the Sun and Milky Way. This stunningly illustrated book also explores how our view of the universe has been brought into sharp focus by NASA's great observatories—Spitzer, Chandra, and Hubble—and how the WMAP mission has provided rare glimpses of the dawn of creation. Dreams of Other Worlds reveals how these unmanned exploratory missions have redefined what it means to be the temporary tenants of a small planet in a vast cosmos.

Essential Papers on Dreams
Essential Papers on Dreams

Author: Melvin Lansky

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1992-04

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 0814750621

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This collection traces the history of psycho-analytically informed thinking about dreams, using selected contributions from Freud to the present to highlight both the legacy of The Interpretation of dreams and the evolving use of the dream as a research tool- of the mind first, later of the psychoanalytic process and of pathology and loge predicaments, and finally as a tool to be integrated with other methods of investigation.

The Counselor's Guide for Facilitating the Interpretation of Dreams
The Counselor's Guide for Facilitating the Interpretation of Dreams

Author: Evelyn M. Duesbury

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-01-07

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1136920439

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For both students and practicing counselors, this book fills the gaps that exist between many current academic programs and practitioner’s needs for focused training on how to better assist clients with dream interpretations. Its main focus is on dreams concerning family members and other major figures in the dreamer's life with whom he or she interacts. Readers will first learn how to understand and use their own dreams, and then how to apply this in order to facilitate their clients’ interpretations of dreams. They will be amazed and fascinated by the issues, emotions, and problem-solving suggestions that are often revealed as they guide their clients' use of a personalized dream interpretation method developed by the author. Through the use of a detailed case example of a client and her dreams, the author shows how each step of this method can be applied and carried out in practice and is easily integrated with contemporary psychotherapies, especially cognitive behavior therapies.

Dream Consciousness
Dream Consciousness

Author: Nicholas Tranquillo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 331907296X

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This book presents three lectures by Allan Hobson, entitled “The William James Lectures on Dream Consciousness”. The three lectures expose the new psychology, the new physiology and the new philosophy that derive from and support the protoconsciousness hypothesis of dreaming. They review in detail many of the studies on sleep and dreaming conducted since the days of Sigmund Freud. Following the lectures are commentaries written by scholars whose expertise covers a wide range of scientific disciplines including, but not limited to, philosophy, psychology, neurology, neuropsychology, cognitive science, biology and animal sciences. The commentaries each answer a specific question in relation to Hobson’s lectures and his premise that dreaming is an altered state of consciousness. Capitalizing on a vast amount of data, the lectures and commentaries provide undisputed evidence that sleep consists of a well-organized sequence of subtly orchestrated brain states that undoubtedly play a crucial function in the maintenance of normal brain functions. These functions include both basic homeostatic processes necessary to keep the organism alive as well as the highest cognitive functions including perception, decision making, learning and consciousness.