History & cultures 2 entries

• Freud and the Psychoanalytic Theory of DreamsSigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams recast dreams as meaningful psychic formations to be interpreted, giving modern culture its language of manifest and latent content, wish-fulfilment and the dream-work. This is a cultural and historical account of psychoanalytic dream theory — what Freud proposed and why it became so influential — and how it differs from the way contemporary sleep and dream science studies dreaming.→
• A History of Lucid Dreaming: From Antiquity to the Modern Sleep LabLucid dreaming — knowing you are dreaming while it happens — is an ancient human experience that was only recently verified by science. This is its history, from Aristotle and Tibetan dream yoga through Frederik van Eeden's coining of the term in 1913 to the eye-signal experiments and real-time dream dialogues of the modern sleep laboratory.→