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Only in your dreams

By Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D. on August 10, 2010 in What The Wild Things Are

The Farallon Islands is the largest seabird and marine mammal colony in the continental United States and for that reason always houses a handful of biologists studying the cornucopia of life there. Read More

The ideas that dreams are

Submitted by Marcia Dreams on August 16, 2010 - 4:28am.

The ideas that dreams are caused by random firings in your brain and that they are reflect internal psychological conflicts aren't mutually exclusive.

Dreams may be triggeed by random firings, but internal conflicts can direct the ways in which we weave our dreams them into complex stories.

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Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D.

Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D., is a clinical and forensic psychologist and co-founder of the Pathways Institute for Impulse Control in San Francisco.

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