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Essay Archive - Dreaming: Function And Meaning
Dreaming: Function And Meaning
Why do we have dreams and what do they mean? These questions have
for centuries been the subject of a debate that has recently become the
center of a heated controversy. In one camp we have a number of prominent
scientists who argue that we dream for physiological reasons alone and that
dreams are essentially mental nonsense devoid of psychological meaning: A
tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." The
idea that dreams are nothing more than "meaningless biology" sounds absurd
and rather blasphemous to the opposing camp, a coalition of Freudians and
other dream w....
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