, is a physiological process. Known as the activation-synthesis hypothesis of dreaming, Hobson contended that:
After neuronal processes have activated REM sleep, higher brain functions work to synthesize the essentially random input as well as it can, with dreams as the result. The activation-synthesis hypothesis assumes that dreams are as meaningful as they can be under the adverse working conditions of the brain in REM sleep. The activated brain-mind does its best to attribute meaning to the internally generated signals. In the synthesis stage of dream formation, the mind makes sense of the nonsensical, random neurological activity, creating meanings where there were none before.
Many others have pursued this line of theory with respect to dreams and dreaming. Some of them take it further, by explaining that the dreaming state is actually a neurological acid trip “The mind becomes clinically insane for two hours every night. We hallucinate wildly, see and h
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