Lucid dreams: Their advantage and disadvantage in the frame of search activity concept
Search activity (SA) is the behavioral and mental activity that is oriented to changes of the environment or of the subject’s view and approach to the environment according to personal needs without the definite probability forecast of the outcomes of such activity, but with a regular consideration...
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| description | Search activity (SA) is the behavioral and mental activity that is oriented to changes of the environment or of the subject’s view and approach to the environment according to personal needs without the definite probability forecast of the outcomes of such activity, but with a regular consideration of the outcomes in the process of active behavior. Dream’s lucidity (the subject’s realization that he/she is dreaming) protects dreamer from awakenings during emotionally disturbing or frustrating dreams, because lucid dreams allow subject to feel separated from the dream events that may cause a feeling of helplessness. Due to such a protection from awakenings that can bring subject back to the frustration in wakefulness, subject can turn in the further sleep to normal non-lucid dreams that are restoring subject’s SA in the subsequent wakefulness (activity in the uncertain situation with the feedback between behavior and its outcome). It is the advantage of lucid dreams. Their disadvantage is that due to the separation from the dream events that are in lucid dreams accepted as rationalized dreams, not as real stories where the dreamer acts like in wakefulness, their ability to restore SA is decreased until they are not displaced by the normal non-lucid dreams accepted as real stories. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9e022eb5cb5640dc89552cc35b7355262022-12-21T17:58:12ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-09-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.01472160391Lucid dreams: Their advantage and disadvantage in the frame of search activity conceptVadim S Rotenberg0Tel-Aviv UniversitySearch activity (SA) is the behavioral and mental activity that is oriented to changes of the environment or of the subject’s view and approach to the environment according to personal needs without the definite probability forecast of the outcomes of such activity, but with a regular consideration of the outcomes in the process of active behavior. Dream’s lucidity (the subject’s realization that he/she is dreaming) protects dreamer from awakenings during emotionally disturbing or frustrating dreams, because lucid dreams allow subject to feel separated from the dream events that may cause a feeling of helplessness. Due to such a protection from awakenings that can bring subject back to the frustration in wakefulness, subject can turn in the further sleep to normal non-lucid dreams that are restoring subject’s SA in the subsequent wakefulness (activity in the uncertain situation with the feedback between behavior and its outcome). It is the advantage of lucid dreams. Their disadvantage is that due to the separation from the dream events that are in lucid dreams accepted as rationalized dreams, not as real stories where the dreamer acts like in wakefulness, their ability to restore SA is decreased until they are not displaced by the normal non-lucid dreams accepted as real stories.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01472/fullREM sleeplucidityhelplessnessdream functionSearch activity |
| spellingShingle | Vadim S Rotenberg Lucid dreams: Their advantage and disadvantage in the frame of search activity concept Frontiers in Psychology REM sleep lucidity helplessness dream function Search activity |
| title | Lucid dreams: Their advantage and disadvantage in the frame of search activity concept |
| title_full | Lucid dreams: Their advantage and disadvantage in the frame of search activity concept |
| title_fullStr | Lucid dreams: Their advantage and disadvantage in the frame of search activity concept |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lucid dreams: Their advantage and disadvantage in the frame of search activity concept |
| title_short | Lucid dreams: Their advantage and disadvantage in the frame of search activity concept |
| title_sort | lucid dreams their advantage and disadvantage in the frame of search activity concept |
| topic | REM sleep lucidity helplessness dream function Search activity |
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