tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772182113499451603.post7922011445917422505..comments2024-03-19T04:21:15.183-05:00Comments on Real Psychiatry: A New Perspective on DreamingGeorge Dawson, MD, DFAPAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474899831557543486noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772182113499451603.post-24166534272742329382017-07-25T10:02:24.322-05:002017-07-25T10:02:24.322-05:00I have found affective biasing to be useful clinic...I have found affective biasing to be useful clinically along with some dream rehearsal. Anxious people have anxious dreams and depressed people have depressing dreams. If your predominate experience in the day is due to anxiety and depression the consolidated memories will reflect that. At the macro level - I think a lot of people still find their dreams confusing and even adding that small insight helps them quite a bit.<br /><br />I attended a lecture by Tononi several years ago and at the time and he discussed sleep as a time that synapses need to regenerate in order to be available for new connection the next day or the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis. This is one of his papers on the subject: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24411729<br /><br />It is interesting that this is a clear example of how a clinical explanation is useful to the patient completely independent of the neuroscience.<br /><br />Maybe I should start marketing "Clinical interventions that are useful independent of neuroscience" and start a new trend.George Dawson, MD, DFAPAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03474899831557543486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772182113499451603.post-7565130123060718532017-07-25T09:41:17.296-05:002017-07-25T09:41:17.296-05:00The theory of dreams that I find the most convinci...The theory of dreams that I find the most convincing is that dreaming is a representation in the mind of the process by which short term memories are consolidated into long term memories. Since the short term memories most likely to be consolidated are the ones with the most emotional resonance - emotion being a marker of importance - that the dream would have important psychological meanings would not be surprising. Also, the mind tends to incorporate memories on the basis of things that look or feel similar rather than on logical connections - e.g, things that are brown, things that look like mothers etc - which is why the dreams are the normal equivalent of "loose associations."David M. Allen M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06280912088483192599noreply@blogger.com