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In the late seventies, this theory developed by two psychiatrists Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley. Activation of the synthesis-hypothesis is based on the discovery that in the sixties was done: the PBL-waves. PGO waves are waves that are fired from the brainstem. During REM These waves are usually accidental, and carry no information. They arrive at the visual portion of the brains, and there they constitute images. Those images have little or no connection with each other, but you try (dormant) consciousness, a sense of story making. That usually does not work at all, and because of that disjointed stories. Hobson and McCarley went out of the 'reverse' scanning hypothesis. The brainstem would not only send signals to the visual part of the brains, but also to the eyes. The scanning hypothesis it is assumed that the eyes follow actions in the dream, Hobson and McCarley assumed that a special movement of the eyes evokes a dream. According to their theory, even the brain send impulses to the muscles. In reality, nothing happens, because the muscles are paralysed during REM sleep, but in the dream makes the person a movement. Hence the weird things we do sometimes in dreams. Experiments on cats showed that the muscle paralysis can be made ??by destroying certain nerve cells in the brain stem. withdrawn during the REM The cats were not paralysed during REM, made ??during their dream example movements as if they were hunting, or as if they were scared. This is another statement of the question "why we dream" to pick again. According to Hobson and McCarley was that: "The silence of the night in the keys and maintaining neurological circuits that are mainly required for the four instinctive Rs: flights, fighting, feeding, and sex". The movements that made ??the cat, so do not necessarily have to portray his dream Another possible function of REM sleep in the activation-synthesis hypothesise is that the parts of the brains that day to think critically, and memories to store programs must rest. overnight That would explain why we are so gullible in our dreams. The part of our brains that is critical to think about, is a while off. Also forget the dream would be so declared, because if the memory area of the brains is disabled during a dream, we can not remember the dream.
-Tyler
