Week 7: Neuroscience + Art 

Dreams:


“What Happens in Your Brain While You Dream?” The Sleep Matters Club, 20 May 2021, www.dreams.co.uk/sleep-matters-club/what-happens-in-your-brain-while-you-dream. 

In this week's lecture, the professor speaks about dreams. She poses the question “What does it mean to dream?” To dream is to envision an idea that reflects one's real-life aspiration, and evokes emotions during the stages of sleep. Sigmund Freud was a neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. The psychoanalytic theory attempts to explain how behavior and personality are influenced by unconscious processes. Freud believed that dreams were real and they allowed people to express unconscious ideas. According to Freud's Dreams Theory, there is the manifest content and the latent content. The Manifest content is what is happening in the dream, the characters in the dream, the place, etc. However the Latent Content is the underlying message of the dream, the meaning.  

Zhang, Wei, and Benyu Guo. “Freud's Dream Interpretation: A Different Perspective Based on the Self-Organization Theory of Dreaming.” Frontiers, Frontiers, 1 Jan. 1AD, www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01553/full. 


Consciousness:


What is consciousness? I would say it's the state of being “woke”, aware of the world and with oneself. One is aware of everything going on around them as well as within them. Whenever I think of a “conscious” person I think of someone who is an activist, a person who intervenes in social, and political environments with the desire to make changes in society.  


Staff, DiversityInc. “10 Modern Black Civil Rights Leaders to Follow Today.” DiversityInc, 13 May 2022, www.diversityinc.com/10-modern-black-civil-rights-leaders-to-follow-today/. 








According to the Webster dictionary consciousness:  


  1. the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself

     2. Awareness, especially: concern for some social or political cause. 








Duham, Taylor. “Conscious Activism.” Concept, conscious.is/concepts/conscious-activism. 

Koch, Christof. “What Is Consciousness?” Scientific American, Scientific American, 1 June 2018, www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-consciousness/. 

Mcleod], [Saul. “[Sigmund Freud's Theories].” Simply Psychology, 1 Jan. 1970, www.simplypsychology.org/Sigmund-Freud.html. 

“The Science of Dreams: What Happens in the Brain When We Dream.” Muse, 3 June 2021, choosemuse.com/blog/the-science-of-dreams-what-happens-in-the-brain-when-we-dream/. 

“What Happens in Your Brain While You Dream?” The Sleep Matters Club, 20 May 2021, www.dreams.co.uk/sleep-matters-club/what-happens-in-your-brain-while-you-dream. 

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