Sigmund Freud

For science medical dreamlike production is due to neural activity, which connects during the dream state, produce images devoid of sense, which do not have any importance and that there is no attributed another meaning than a haphazard electrical activity that occurs at the cellular level. It was not until 1900 when Sigmund Freud published the interpretation of dreams. For Freud dreams are messages from the unconscious sneak to the conscience through mental images. These messages / images are repressed desires. Freud had then found in dreams the Royal path to the unconscious, and to interpret them, I think the psychoanalysis, without thinking that it would become a future in a current of psychology. Psychoanalysis, is the analysis of the images produced during sleep, this psychological current allowed find encrypted language of dream productions, a hidden meaning, of vital importance for the knowledge of the human psyche. It allowed In addition to recover certain psychological content that we reprimimos by consciousness, were condemned to a sort of banishment in the incomprehensible symbolism of nighttime images.

There are currently quite a few theories about dreams. Then mention, the main ones. Freud argued that dreams are repressed desires that come from the unconscious, and censored by the awareness they acquire forms dream to be able to sneak into her. J. Allan Hobson posits with his activation synthesis theory that the mind is the brain, which is equivalent to saying that mental activity that can be attributed to an entity not physics as the unconscious, there is no as Freud had nominated him. Hobson and his colleagues argue that during the oneiric activity, the neural network of the cerebral cortex, does not receive information of the 5 senses, but the brain itself. Hobson, explain that if during sleep, we dream that we fall is that a neuron in the area of balance, tripped or if you dream that someone is chasing us and you can not move, any neuron in the region that controls the muscle paralysis is kindled.