Watch the Scientific American video "What's in a Dream?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxGLes-0JVg
Prepare a written assignment answering the following questions:
Describe the five stages of sleep. What is happening to the brain and/or body in each stage?
Describe at least one effect of sleep deprivation.
Describe at least one sleep disorder.
Which theory (Freud's psychodynamic theory, activation-synthesis, or consoldiation (information processing/learning and memory)) do you most agree with? Why?
Give an example of a dream (it can be real or made up) and use your preferred dream theory to analyze or explain what is happening in the dream.