Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen believed that dreams often contained physiological information that heralded future medical illnesses. In succeeding centuries, Sigmund Freud led the modern age of dream research in his monumentally original book of the Interpretations of Dreams. ... Kugler argues that "Perhaps the reason dreamers, poets, and madmen display such an uncanny sense of the imagination is that their perceptual systems-like those of the oral tellers of myths-are tuned to the invariant archetypal structures of sound and image" (Kugler 1982, 28). ... Interpreting these dreams would le...

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Part 1 – Summary The Psychopathology of Everyday Life is Sigmund Freud's sixteenth work published, and the title is quite fitting for the context of the book. ... Smith) are more challenging to learn and remember than other types of information, such as a job or a hobby. ... However, the mechanisms by which he describes our memory seem to be solid in the sense that they are logically sound. ...

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Although many of his interpretations sound quaint to present-day ears, Artemidorus was surprisingly modern in some respects ( Fontana 89). ... The same may be true of the brain's response to other dream sensations: certainly, stimuli such as a spray of water, a strong smell, a sudden sound such as the ringing of an alarm clock, a voice, a few notes of music, or a brief flash of light, may all be incorporated into dream and "rationalized" in some way to fit in with its content ( Wade 173). ... By avoiding narrative and emotional complexity of REM dreams and instead loosening the us...

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