Consciousness and the two track mind

I learned that we know more than we know we know. A good example from the book is the hollow face illusion. Our eyes are telling the mind that the face is protruding but our brain is telling us that the face is hollow. So really our mind is believing one thing while the brain another. With this study I would trust my brain more than my mind. Another interesting thing I learned about was the different stages of sleep and the brain waves. I thought that you dream toward the end of your sleep, but when it really occurs many times throughout the night.
What I found the most surprising was what we dream and what goes on in the REM sleep. I thought that men had sexual dreams, more often than what was recorded, as a young adult and that we had more sweet dreams than negative ones. I won't mention what I learned and found interesting about REM sleep, instead if you want to know look on page 96 in the first paragraph (it may not be totally appropriate).
Also I disagree with Freud's wish-fulfillment theory. When I dream it's not about things I want to happen in the future. For example, once I dreamed that i killed someone and trust me I really didn't and don't want to kill that person. But I do think that actuation-syntheses is more likely to explain dreams. You might really be creating a story from books, movies, and real life events that you know or have heard of. I know i read and watch some weird books and movies and i do have some occasional weird dreams involving the same plot or characters.