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...Suppression increases the amount of dreaming about the target person more than does thinking about the person,” Wegner said...
...Wegner said that their results indicate that dreams aren’t as complex as we think they...
...There are lots of theories on what dreams are for or what dreams represent,” Wegner said. “Our studies suggest that dreams may not be for anything at all. They just reflect what we try to suppress when we are awake...
...students were just as likely to dream about a crush as they were about a normal person. The emotional attachment made no difference in how often they appeared in the dreams. Suppression was the only main difference,” Wegner said...
...Wegner said that this finding on emotion differentiates the study’s results from Freud’s. While the study claims that dreams reflect people’s suppressed thoughts but do not depend on an emotional connection, Freud claimed that emotional connections were an important factor in interpreting dreams...