What dreams are made of
What Dreams are Made of
Since the beginning of time, dreams have been a mysterious wonder amongst humans. Everyone has dreams, and people who say they do not in fact do, but just don’t remember their dreams or recall the information that was in them. A person spends somewhere around six years of their life dreaming, which is about 2,100 days in a dream world (dreamfacts). A lot of people often have weird and unexplained dreams that they usually just overlook, or don’t remember, but research is showing that there is meaning behind dreams. In the Ancient time, the Greeks and Romans would visit dream temples to search their dreams as messages from the Gods (Gackenbach and Bosveld, 1989). Nowadays, through studies and research, psychologists have made some cool theories about the characteristics of dreams, what they do for people, and what they mean to people. People can connect their dreams into real life to work through problems and better understand themselves, once they’re able to figure out these factors.
When humans go to sleep, they go through four stage cycles which lasts for about 90 - 120 minutes and repeats itself about four to five times per sleep night on average, but may go through as many as seven times in sleep period. Dreams may happen through any of the four stages, but are more remembered by people in the last part of sleep known as the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) stage. In this part of sleep, the person’s eyes move back and forth very rapidly, and occur about 90 - 100 minutes after they go to sleep. Also in REM sleep, the person has a rise in blood pressure and an increase in their heart rate and respiration, and their voluntary muscles are paralyzed. Dreamers have several dreams in one sleep period, but they usually remember very little about them all. A person with decreased dream activity could have protein deficiency or a personality disorder (dreamfacts). There are five Traits of dreams. One is that a lot of dreams consist of real
Since the beginning of time, dreams have been a mysterious wonder amongst humans. Everyone has dreams, and people who say they do not in fact do, but just don’t remember their dreams or recall the information that was in them. A person spends somewhere around six years of their life dreaming, which is about 2,100 days in a dream world (dreamfacts). A lot of people often have weird and unexplained dreams that they usually just overlook, or don’t remember, but research is showing that there is meaning behind dreams. In the Ancient time, the Greeks and Romans would visit dream temples to search their dreams as messages from the Gods (Gackenbach and Bosveld, 1989). Nowadays, through studies and research, psychologists have made some cool theories about the characteristics of dreams, what they do for people, and what they mean to people. People can connect their dreams into real life to work through problems and better understand themselves, once they’re able to figure out these factors.
When humans go to sleep, they go through four stage cycles which lasts for about 90 - 120 minutes and repeats itself about four to five times per sleep night on average, but may go through as many as seven times in sleep period. Dreams may happen through any of the four stages, but are more remembered by people in the last part of sleep known as the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) stage. In this part of sleep, the person’s eyes move back and forth very rapidly, and occur about 90 - 100 minutes after they go to sleep. Also in REM sleep, the person has a rise in blood pressure and an increase in their heart rate and respiration, and their voluntary muscles are paralyzed. Dreamers have several dreams in one sleep period, but they usually remember very little about them all. A person with decreased dream activity could have protein deficiency or a personality disorder (dreamfacts). There are five Traits of dreams. One is that a lot of dreams consist of real
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