forgotten

In 1997,[70] Joe Griffin published a new theory to explain dreams, which later became known as the expectation fulfilment theory of dreams. After years of research on his own dreams and those of others, he found that dreaming serves to discharge the emotional arousals (however minor) that haven't been expressed during the day, thus freeing...

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imagination

Coutts[58] describes dreams as playing a central role in a two-phase sleep process that improves the mind's ability to meet human needs during wakefulness. During the accommodation phase, mental schemas self-modify by incorporating dream themes. During the emotional selection phase, dreams test prior schema accommodations. Those that appear adaptive...

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memories

Eugen Tarnow suggests that dreams are ever-present excitations of long-term memory, even during waking life. The strangeness of dreams is due to the format of long-term memory, reminiscent of Penfield & Rasmussen's findings that electrical excitations of the cortex give rise to experiences similar to dreams. During waking life an executive function...

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