13 Dreams Freud Never Had: The New Mind Science

Freud Believed Dreams Resulted From An Elaborate Effort Of The Mind To Conceal Unacceptable Instinctual Wishes Welling Up From The Unconscious When The Ego Relaxes Its Prohibition Of The Id In Sleep. But Modern Neuroscience, Including Hobson's Own Research, Has Shown This Understanding Of The Brain To Be Wrong. As Hobson Explains, The Bizarre Nature Of Our Dreams Has Nothing To Do With Repressed Emotion As Freud Taught; It Results From The Way The Brain Is Physically Built. Chemical Mechanisms In The Brain Stem During Deep Rem Sleep, Which Shift The Activation Of Various Regions Of The Cortex, Generate These Changes. Here Is A Clear Window On How Thoughts Are Actually Created From Our Memories Of Experiences.--jacket. Dreamstage With Elephants : Rem Sleep And Creativity -- Hms Marathon : Turning On The Social Brain -- Lobster Brain : The Visual Brain As Image Synthesizer -- Caravaggio : Running The Pons Motor Pattern Generator -- Italian Romance : Playing Hide-and-seek With Dopamine -- Ed Evarts And Mickey Mantle : Scrambling The Hippocampus -- Bicentennial Wine Tasting : The Brain Gets High On Its Own Juices -- Dangerous Diving : The Surprising Importance Of The Vestibular System -- Split Whale : Fear And The Amygdala -- Tiffany Box : Toward A New Philosophy Of Mind -- Louis Kane Dies : The Brain Plays Tricks With Memory -- Medieval Town : Bizarre Architecture, Emotional Salience, And The Healing Medulla -- French Kiss : The Erotic Hypothalamus. J. Allan Hobson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [181]-193) And Index.