researcher named J. Allan Hobson. It shouldn’t have been that hard. In a series of famous papers, Hobson had landed body blows on the Freudian idea that dreams arose from unconscious desires, by showing that they actually came from a part of the brain that had nothing to do with desire. He’d proven that the timing and the length of dreams were regular and predictable, which suggested that dreams had less to say about a person’s psychological state than about his nervous system.
Worth digging into further.
