Brain Mechanisms Of Dreaming | Mark Solms

Sigmund Freud was the first scientist to support the popular notion that dreams are meaningful. Fifty years later, the discovery of REM sleep thoroughly discredited the notion.

Join Mark Solms as he explores the mechanisms behind the dreaming brain and what dreams really mean.

In this talk, Mark will discuss where the research on sleep, generated like clockwork by the ‘mindless’ brainstem, stands today.

Dr. Mark Solms is a neuropsychologist, Professor at the University of Cape Town, and author of The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness. In this episode we discuss Dr. Solms' background in neuropsychology, the overlap between modern neuropsychology and psychoanalysis, and Dr. Solms' early research on dreaming. We then discuss the illusive nature of consciousness, Dr. Solms' central arguments in The Hidden Spring that consciousness is evolutionarily ancient and grounded in feeling, and modern attempts of using quantitative methods to tackle the mystery of consciousness.

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I have experienced first hand the way dreaeming can approach repressed events in a disguised manner. The dream work makes the repressed material more acceptable by leaving clues rather than directly confronting the repressed material. See Marie Cardinal's book ' les mots pour le dire' ( the words to say it ) in which the shameful repressed event is represented in symbolic form ( of an halllucinated eye). The physical effects of the shameful event are drastic in her case, and I don't know if her understanding and release of repression actually cured them.

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Great minds anyways have books as a backdrop. How I want to look at those books.