dreamstudies
Dream studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines dreaming across biological, psychological, and cultural dimensions. It encompasses neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis, cognitive science, anthropology, and literary studies, focusing on how dreams are produced during sleep, how they are recalled, their content, and related phenomena such as lucid dreaming. Research combines sleep monitoring and dream reports to understand mechanisms, functions, and meaning, as well as effects on waking life.
History and approaches: Early modern interest produced Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic dream interpretation and Carl Jung's ideas
Contemporary focus: Research explores neural correlates of dreaming, differences between REM and NREM dreams, and cross-cultural
Debates and challenges: The field debates whether dreams reveal latent meaning or are byproducts of neural