The document discusses cognitive theory of dreaming, which interprets dreams based on quantitative analysis of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring during sleep. According to cognitive theory, dreams reveal conceptions of self, others, the world, penalties, and conflicts that shape behavior when awake. The theory proposed by Calvin Hall is that dreams help shape ideas about the world. Additional sections discuss how sleep processes memories by extracting rules and insights, integrating new and old memories, and imagining possible futures to create meaning. Analyzing dreams may help understand conditions like coma and mental illness.

1. Cognitive Theory of
Dreaming
RoopTeja Muppalla
06-21-2016

2. Cognitive Theory of Dreaming
• Dreams : A series of thoughts,
images and sensations
occurring in a persons’ mind
during sleep.
• Cognitive theory is the
interpretation of these dreams
based on quantitative analysis.
Calvin hall

3. Cognitive structures that dreams reveal
• Conceptions of self
• Conceptions of others
• Conceptions of the world
• Conceptions of penalties
• Conceptions of conflict
Calvin hall

4. Cognitive structures that dreams reveal
• The conceptions are antecedent to our
behaviour in the waking world.
• Calvin Hall believes that our dreams were a way
of shaping our own ideas of the world.
Calvin hall

5. Video
Dr. Dylan Selterman

6. Sleeps sews the pieces of our memory
together
• It extracts the gist of an experience.
• It discovers the rules of our lives
• It fosters insight.
• And dreaming.
Robert Stickgold

7. Sleeps sews the pieces of our memory
together
• During sleep, brain is figuring what its about and holding on to
that information and throwing out all the rest.
• Ex : doctor, blood, disease, nurse, patient.
• Dreams act like predictors that the brain is going to do what it
needs to do to really figure out the problem.
Robert Stickgold

8. Memory processing during sleep
• Stabilizes, enhances and integrates new memories.
• Extracts rules and gist.
• Integrates new and old memories.
• Imagines possible futures.
• Creates the meaning of our lives.
Dreaming
Robert Stickgold

9. Related work
•Autonomous Change : RobDREAM in Augsburg, Germany.
• Dreams – Putting an emotional experience into our context of past
memories or imaging a solution to something puzzling all the day.
• What scientist can do with dreaming is give the robots some
suggestions of alternative rules and parameter, which they can test
out overnight that should lead to better and more efficient paths or
movements the next day.

10. Related work
•Blank Slate: DREAM project in Paris, France.
• Dreams – During day we acquire a lot of information and while we
sleep we consolidate this knowledge and change the way it is
represented in our brain.
• The goal is to learn it automatically not to provide with knowledge.

11. Benefits of analysing dreams
• Help understand coma.
• Mental illness.
• Etc …

12. Conclusion
LET OUR DREAMS BE THE
SOURCE OF OUR CREATIVITY

13. THANK YOU