THE PROBLEM OF “DEPTH” IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DREAMING

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Abstract
Various strands of evidence as regards the psychophysiology of sleep are brought to bear on Freud''s sleep-protection hypothesis. The emergent face-value support of the hypothesis is noted to rest heavily on the analogical construct "depth of sleep." A discussion of various possibilities of sleep concludes that it is not feasible to do so. In the interests of breaking the "depth" set in our attitudes toward electroencephalogram (EEG) monitored sleep findings, a tentative model is proposed for systematically comprehending the three principal psychological dimensions that was brought to light by these findings: wakefulness, dreaming sleep, and thinking sleep. The sleep-protection hypothesis is reconsidered and judged to be moot.

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