Dreams: the Movies of Our Minds
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Dreams: The Movies of Our Minds
Dreams: The Movies of Our Minds
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, dreams are a series of images, ideas, or feelings that are going through your head while sleeping. Dreams can be very clear or very blurry, depending on how your brain perceives the image (Cherry, 2011). Humans spend about six years of their life dreaming (“Dream Facts and Tidbits,” 2010). Most people believe that dreams happen all through the night, this may be true but studies have found that more dreams occur at the end of an eight to nine hour sleep (Horgan, 1994). We usually dream about two hours a night during the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stage (Stibich, 2008). The REM stage is said to be important in helping remember dreams for a long period of time (Stibich, 2009). Some individuals claim that they do not dream, but this is not true. Everyone dreams, some people are just unable to remember their dreams (“Dream Facts and Tidbits,” 2010). During dreaming, the body is shut down and that is why people don’t usually act out their dreams (Stibich, 2008). The complex world of dreaming offers a profound look into personal psyche and the unconscious imagination.
The four different types of dreams I have decided to tell about are: lucid dreams, nightmares, precognitive dreams and Daydreams. Lucid dreams are when a person knows that they are dreaming even though they are still sleeping (Hamzelou, 2010). Lucid dreams can enable you to conquer reoccurring nightmares and control what is happening in your dreams (Harrar & Dawidowska, 2003). Lucid dreams not only help you conquer fears, but also confine you to only your imagination (“Lucid Dreams,” 2010). Many different products are being invented that induce lucidity and the first product to ever come out was back in the late-1980s (Horgan, 1994). Lucid dreaming is one of the many
Dreams: The Movies of Our Minds
Dreams: The Movies of Our Minds
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, dreams are a series of images, ideas, or feelings that are going through your head while sleeping. Dreams can be very clear or very blurry, depending on how your brain perceives the image (Cherry, 2011). Humans spend about six years of their life dreaming (“Dream Facts and Tidbits,” 2010). Most people believe that dreams happen all through the night, this may be true but studies have found that more dreams occur at the end of an eight to nine hour sleep (Horgan, 1994). We usually dream about two hours a night during the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stage (Stibich, 2008). The REM stage is said to be important in helping remember dreams for a long period of time (Stibich, 2009). Some individuals claim that they do not dream, but this is not true. Everyone dreams, some people are just unable to remember their dreams (“Dream Facts and Tidbits,” 2010). During dreaming, the body is shut down and that is why people don’t usually act out their dreams (Stibich, 2008). The complex world of dreaming offers a profound look into personal psyche and the unconscious imagination.
The four different types of dreams I have decided to tell about are: lucid dreams, nightmares, precognitive dreams and Daydreams. Lucid dreams are when a person knows that they are dreaming even though they are still sleeping (Hamzelou, 2010). Lucid dreams can enable you to conquer reoccurring nightmares and control what is happening in your dreams (Harrar & Dawidowska, 2003). Lucid dreams not only help you conquer fears, but also confine you to only your imagination (“Lucid Dreams,” 2010). Many different products are being invented that induce lucidity and the first product to ever come out was back in the late-1980s (Horgan, 1994). Lucid dreaming is one of the many