... dreams contain both surface events and hidden personal thoughts. Freud's theory of how dreams work has had a huge cultural impact over the past century, as it also attracted intense criticism. J. Allan Hobson, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, says, "Unconscious wishes play little or no part in dream instigation, dream emotion is uncensored and undisguised, sleep is not protected by dreaming, and ... ...

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... system and control emotion and memory. Of course, the parts of the brain that control the ability to create and see visual images are also highly activated during this time. J. Allan Hobson and his colleague Robert McCarley were the first to propose a new model of dreaming in 1977. They believed that dreaming is our subjective awareness of the internal signals that ... ...

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