Unit09AreDreamsasVitalasSleep_英语阅读.pptVIP

Navigation Guide Objectives Aware some famous theories of dreams. Understanding “Dreams”: its movement. Daydream an average of 70-120 minutes a day. a level of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness It occurs during our waking hours when we let our imagination carry us away. the meanings to your nightly dream symbols are also applicable to your daydreams. Lucid dreaming takes place when you are in the middle of a dream and you recognize that it is a dream. recurring dream ? Dream that has been made for several times Key Words Key Points Sigmund Freud 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939 an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression, and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient, technically referred to as an analysand, and a psychoanalyst. Freud redefined sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life Pavlov(1849-1936) The Russian scientist studying the mechanisms underlying the digestive system in mammals. awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904. turned to studying the laws on the formation of conditioned reflexes, a topic on which he worked until his death in 1936. While-reading Read the passage within twenty minutes Do exercises A, B, D Comprehension Questions 1. What are the three basic physiological criteria for dreaming? 2. What are the amount of dream of new-born infants, adults, birds and reptiles and amphibians? 3. what are the two principal characteristics of dreaming activity? 4. When may sleepwalking occur? 5. what do you think the importance of studying dreams is? 6. What is the hypothesis directing our study? Explain it! Two principal characteristics of dreaming activity First, rapid eye movement, which we call phase phenomenon Second, the blocking of muscular tone, which is called a tonic ph