Activation Synthesis theory simply states that dreaming is simply the brain’s way of processing those said impulses. Humans and even animals experience this random stimulus as dreams. “Dreaming may be our most creative conscious state, one in which the chaotic, spontaneous recombination of cognitive elements produces novel configurations of information: new ideas. While many or even most of these ideas may be nonsensical, if even a few of its fanciful products are truly useful, our dream time will not have been wasted” (Hobson, 1999) Activation Synthesis theory was first proposed by John Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley, in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
In the context of Activation Synthesis theory, Calpurnia and Brutus’ dreams have no meaning to it. The dreams are simply random impulses of them dealing with their emotions of the current situations. In Calpurnia's case, she’s dealing with her gut-feeling and her displeasure of ceremonies. “Caesar I never stood for ceremonies, yet now they frighten me.” (II.ii. 13-14). With Brutus he’s dealing with the emotional charge of the mobs, and the war, along with his moral dilemma of whether killing Caesar was the right thing to