Today we will be finish our discussion of sleep and then focus on interesting behavior that occurs within it; dreaming. Slides are a continuation of Tuesday's set and are at sleep-dreaming slides.
We will complete any issues remaining from our discussion of sleep and then, with regard to dreaming, the basic question we will ask is what can we learn from our dreams? We will examine whether dreams are meaningful, whether they are "true" or predictive and how they differ from our other experiences.
The major topics we will discuss include the following:

• Dreams as behavior--characteristics and description
• Brain function during dreaming
• Rapid Eye Movements and dreaming
• Theories of dreaming starting with dreams as meaningful events (the psychoanalytic perspective).