... and sleeping thought. Proponents of this view believe that dreams allow people to engage in creative thinking about problems because dreams are not restrained by logic or realism. (Weiten 127) J. Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley have argued that dreams are simply the by-product of bursts of activity emanating from subcortical areas in the brain. Their "Activation-Synthesis" model proposes that ... ...

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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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