which researcher believed that dreams simply reflect life events that are important to the dreamer?

The researcher who believed that dreams simply reflect life events that are important to the dreamer is Rosalind Cartwright. Unlike Freud and Jung, Cartwright's ideas about dreaming have empirical support. For example, she conducted studies showing a significant correlation between what people think about during waking hours and the content of their dreams, such as women going through divorce dreaming about their former spouses proportionally to how much they thought about them during the day.