ANSWER SHEET ONE Dream Functions Dreaming is a common phenomenon. Practically all people dream, although whether they can (1) ______ them is a different matter. (1) ______ An experiment eliciting people’s responses to the question ’What did you dream about last night’ shows the (2) ______ of the activity. It is (2) ______ found that everyone in normal health spends part of their night dreaming and there are many different (3) ______ of dream performing (3) ______ different functions. The first function of dreams is that of the experience-(4) ______, i.e. (4) ______ the mind reviews past experience and learns the lesson of that experience. Often the dream represents a more, or less, (5) ______ course (5) ______ of action or outcome than the real event. The second function of dreams is the (6) ______ type. They help to (6) ______ solve problems by suggesting answers, or (7) ______ difficulties and (7) ______ indicating a way round them. The third function is that of wish (8) ______. In our dreams we (8) ______ satisfy desires whose gratification is denied to us. Dreams also function to (9) ______ us to some external reality, (9) ______ usually by some sensory stimulus. The final, and the most (10) ______ one, is the predictive function. (10) ______ Throughout the ages men have believed that future events will be predicted in dreams. We are not clear whether these are all the functions that dreams may have.