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Another aspect of Hobson's research involves the study of dreams themselves and the analysis of their surreal content. "All dreams have several things in common," he says. "There is memory loss, hypervisual imagery, bizzareness, poor logic and vagueness. We began to study what constituted 'the bizzare...
According to Hobson, "bizzareness" in dreams is defined as discontinuity or incongruity in the plot line. Sometimes people dream the physically impossible, like flying, but more often, he says, there are subtle changes in the unconscious world...
...Hobson says that bizzareness in people's dreams takes many different forms, such as total confusion, loss of clarity in thinking and rapid scene changes. "We found that there was a lot of cognitive uncertainty--people have trouble remembering what is going on in their dreams," he says...
...While Hobson and McCarley say they do not disagree with Freud's theory of dream expression, they assert that the REM stage involves more complex activities than rehashing past experiences...
...speaking against symbolic interpretation of dreams," Hobson says. "Sometimes there's no need to do interpretation at all. What we're thinking about in our sleep is often embarrassingly obvious. But there is enough going on at face value to keep us busy without getting into symbol stuff...