Dreams are considered hallucinations that mainly occur during sleep and during certain rest times. During the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) stage, many plans happen, and an individual undergoes a series of visions. There are a lot of benefits that dreaming brings since it helps in metabolism and brain function, among many others. Critically, when an individual is asleep, the brain is still on, and the dreams people have made little or no sense at all. Therefore, assessing whether dreams make sense or are just a form of hallucination. Do some people have dreams that are a reality, or are all dreams just a hallucination? Therefore, dreams have roles in the human body; however, they can either be a reality or hallucination.
According to Sigmund Freud, dreams reflect the hallucinatory for all mental activities, including dreams. Therefore, internal motivation contributes to dreaming and the internal motivation and desires that make the content of dreams. According to (Binswanger & Wittmann 103-111), Freud focused on the initiation of dreaming and the unconsciousness of dreaming. The interpretation of Freudian theory reflects on how the hallucinatory perspective of dreams is seen as sleep-protectors. Dream gives protection during sleep since individuals can dream and hallucinate about things. During sleep, people can process unconscious, preconscious material; hence, what people dream about is not a reality but some form of hallucination.
Dreaming replaces insomnia, which is the sleep-disturbing stimulus since people can continue with sleep. On the one hand, the brain is active; on the other hand, the visions and thoughts processed during this time are unconscious. Fighting the sleep-disturbance stimuli paves the way for dreaming since the brain tends to get distracted, thus continuing sleep. There is a fight between sleeping and the continuation of sleep, and dreaming is a form of creating balance (Horton 1-15). As one is fighting between sleep and being awake, the brain is unconscious; therefore, the dreams that one encounters are hallucinatory. When the brain is not conscious, not much sense can be made; hence, dreams experienced during sleep are hallucinations since they only help an individual get back to sleep.
Sigmund Freud argued that dreaming is an internal motivation that helps create the desire to dream and the content to dream. However, this theory was a challenge since it lacked empirical evidence. On the other hand, Hobson brought out the theory of dreaming resulting from brain stem activation, which brings about a chemical change. According to Hobson, there is no logical connection to why we dream; therefore, there is no psychological reason why we dream since people dream due to the chemical functions in the brain (Boag 1-11). Hobson also indicates that the content selection of what to dream is random and has design errors; therefore, there is an imbalance of behavior. Moreover, there is no specific structure in selecting the material to dream about since the chemical changes make a random selection. The theory confirms that there is a lot of hallucination during dreaming since there is no consistent method in how dreams are formed.
Dreams are a result of the unconscious state of the brain; therefore, the relevance of dreams gets interpreted based on the functionality of the dream. Freud presents the theory of how the brain is inactivity during sleep, which brings understanding that dreams result from internal motivation. At the same time, the brain is not always unconscious during sleep since there are some functions that it performs while someone is asleep. Metabolism, emotional regulation, and reception of stimuli all happen due to the function of the brain; therefore, there is some level of consciousness the brain has when sleeping (Zhang & Guo 1-8). Freud also demonstrates that internal motivation has a connection to the selection of the materials people dream of. Some individuals have links between their dreams and their daily living; therefore, there is no disconnection between dreams and their everyday experiences. Also, the materials to dream are not derived randomly; instead, they are identical and connected to real life. Freud confirms that dreams are a reality since they connect with real life. Therefore there is a way in which dreaming brings about the sense in terms of the materials people dream.
Therefore dreaming is a function of the brain, and when the brain is not fully conscious, there is not much sense made during dreaming. The theories that define reasons for dreaming have several assumptions about dreaming; for instance, Freud connects reality to dreaming in an internal function. On the other hand, Hobson brings a counterargument that brain stem activation, thus dreaming, results from chemical changes in the brain. Therefore there exists a contrasting position of psychoanalysis about the motives of dreaming. However, Freud’s theory lacks empirical evidence on how dreaming and its connection to real life. Contradictions of the brain function demonstrate that dreaming brings about a hallucinatory effect due to the lack of a clearly defined brain function during sleeping. Therefore, dreams have roles in the human body; however, they can either be a reality or just hallucinations. However, more scientific evidence demonstrates that dreaming brings about hallucination due to the unstructured form of brain function during sleeping.
Works Cited
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Boag, Simon. “On Dreams and Motivation: Comparison of Freud’s and Hobson’s Views.” Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 7, 2017, pp. 1–11., https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02001.
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Zhang, Wei, and Benyu Guo. “Freuds Dream Interpretation: A Different Perspective Based on the Self-Organization Theory of Dreaming.” Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 9, 2018, pp. 1–8., https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01553.
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