When Tawny is asked to write down her dreams as a class assignment, she is bothered by the fact that her dreams often seem to jump randomly from scene to scene with little meaning. What theory best explains her dreams?

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17 July, 13:39

When Tawny is asked to write down her dreams as a class assignment, she is bothered by the fact that her dreams often seem to jump randomly from scene to scene with little meaning. What theory best explains her dreams?

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Katelyn Wall · Answer 1

Activation synthesis

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This theory is proposed by Harvard University psychiatrist John Allan Hobson and Robert McCarlet, the model suggest that dreams are created by changes in neuron activity that activated the brainstem during sleep. While people used to believe that sleeping and dreaming was a passive process, researchers now know that the brain is anything but quiet during sleep.