Directions: Answer the question based on the following passage.
Sometimes, or should one say most of the times, there seems to be no logical reasoning for the events that take place in most people’s dreams although this statement also has to be taken with more than a large grain of salt. Over the period of centuries, since people started getting interested in analyzing dreams, everyone from Plato to Jung to Freud and many others have gone on and proposed theories about the meaning and import of dreams and dreaming. One often wonders if all the embroilment and the gaggle of voices is a tool to satisfy individual, super-size egos rather than satisfy the thirst for interpretation of a phenomenon that has puzzled, fascinated and baffled man since ages.
One school of thought goes with the idea of a conscious, a subconscious and an unconscious mind and feels that dreams are the bridges that connect these three parts of the human psyche. They feel that all that we dream is a sum result of all our desires - suppressed and expressed, our emotions overt and covert, and our experiences - good and the bad. This school feels that dreaming is an activity of the brain that exercises it when we sleep. Just as walking, running etc are physiological workouts, the sequence of dreams - remembered and forgotten - contributes an essential and vital input in the development of the muscles of our brain. This, being a kind of simplistic explanation perhaps, could not curry favor with the researchers looking for more esoteric explanations for the same ang that has spawned an entire industry that thrives on offering various, often discordant postulations for something that perhaps is very important - as worthwhile as it gets. Cases in point are the two explanations given by Burdach and Weygandt. While one asserts that dreams are a kind of a safety valve that take the mind away from the trials and tribulations of the present, the other view asserts that dreams are intimately and inextricably connected to our present state of affairs. Just as the former explanation finds it hard to give an irrefutable evidence for its correctness; the latter also flounders when put to the rack.
According to the passage, which of the following cannot be a quality of dreams?
1. They epitomize various schools of interpretations.
2. They are a form of psychical conditioning.
3. They are a circumvention tool for the cognitive faculties.
4. They provide the illusion of an elusion.
5. They are a coupling for the overt and the covert.
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