OCR GCSE Psychology · J203
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Revise: Williams et al. (1992): Bizarreness in Dreams and FantasiesActivation synthesis explains dreaming as the brain’s attempt to interpret internally generated neural activity. During REM sleep, circuits in the brainstem become active, along with areas of the limbic system involved in emotion and memory, including the amygdala and hippocampus. The brain combines and interprets this activity into a dream.