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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Mind, body, spirit: thought & practice > Dreams & their interpretation
We have puzzled over dreams for centuries. From ancient societies,
believing dreams to be messages from the gods, Freud's theory of
dreams revealing our unconscious minds to modern day experiments in
psychology and neuroscience, dreams continue to fascinate but also
be a source of mystery. Are dreams just mental froth or do they
have a purpose? This book argues that, originally, we dreamed to
survive. Dreaming brains identify non-obvious associations, taking
people, places, and events out of their waking-life context to
uncover complex and, seemingly, unrelated connections. In our
evolutionary past, survival depended on being able to detect these
divergent, associative patterns to anticipate what predators and
other humans might do, as we moved around to secure food and water
and meet potential mates. Making associations drives many, if not
all, brain functions. In the present day, dream associations may
support memory, emotional stability, creativity, unconscious
decision-making and prediction, while also contributing to mental
illness. Written in a lively and accessible style, and showing the
reader how to identify patterns in their own dreams, this book
presents a highly original theory of dreaming and will be a
compelling read for anyone interested in psychology, consciousness,
and the arts, as well as those involved in dream research.
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Fed Up
(Paperback)
Nathaniel S Bird
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R172
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