How many of us have woken up and wondered what last night’s dream was all? Or how even trying to the source of a dream through dream interpretations but not knowing how to go about it? According to author, Dr. Milton Kramer, “Dreams are a theater of the emotions, where we play out the day’s dramas that were left ‘to be continued’” (58). Today I am going to tell you what dreams are, why they are important to our lives, and how we can interpret what they mean. The origin of dreams is something that can be defined in three ways, physically, scientifically, or theoretically depending on whom you talk to. In this case I chose to share the psychological point of view from the people who study all about it, psychologist. There is a major chemical in our brains that is called acetylcholine, which is the …show more content…
In addition to this chemical our four different types of brain waves control our bodily transition to sleep. The four types of brain waves are beta, alpha, theta, and delta (Loff 1). Each wave starts out fasts the gradually slows down as one turns into another. This is when our five stages of sleep set in (Lohff 1). This first stage of sleep is the lightest and it lasts anywhere from thirty to forty minutes. As you progress into the second stage of sleep you are on the borderline of light sleep to deep sleep. Once you are in third and fourth stage you are in your deepest sleep and are about to progress backward through all the sleep stages again. After starting back at your first sleep stage you enter then REM sleep stage. REM sleep is called “Rapid Eye Movement” and is the time when you dream (Lohff 2). REM sleep is very important in sleeping according to David Lohff, author of “The Running Press Cyclopedia of Dreams”, who says, “If you do not have
According to David Myers, author of Myers’ Psychology for AP, he details that there are “five main” stages of sleep everyone experiences at night. The stages of sleep play a distinct role in our circadian rhythm, the twenty-four hour cycle of living beings physiological processes (Myers 226). In order to have a full understanding of sleep, it is essential to be able to distinguish between the following stages of sleep: light sleep, sleep spindles, deep sleep, and rapid eye
PBS’s, Nova What Are Dreams, is a forty-five-minute documentary about how different stages of sleep effect our dreams. Throughout the documentary, we also witness how dreaming is essential for making sense of the world around us. For nearly a century, many thought when one is asleep the brain is asleep as well. Yet not until technology advanced, did scientists begin examining sleeping patients to notice every ninety minutes their patients brain showed activity as if they were awake but were still unconscious.
One of the most common brain activities during sleep is dreaming. Scientist still to this day do not fully understand why we dream or what dreams are exactly. “Some experts suggest that dreams represent the replay of the day’s events as a critical mechanism in the formation of memories, while others claim that the content in dreams is simply the result of random activity in the brain.” It is known that visually intense dreaming occurs most commonly in the REM sleep stage. Dreaming causes the brain to become very active, and not only at displaying the images we see during our dreams.
In Mr. King’s essay, The Symbolic Language of Dreams, his process and techniques describes is very similar to people on a clinical therapeutic spiritual self-discovering journey in which dreams are very much part of the process. Most experience writers have the gift of using life experiences as a flipbook of ideas for personalities, events, and settings for their book. For example, Danielle McGee, a friend of mine, wrote a story about a witch turning a guy into an umbrella. She was angry with her landlord thus using him as person who was changed. Being able to use lucid dreaming or being in a meditative state to recall his memories or dreams is a known technique.
N2 The N2 is the slightly deeper stage of N1 and it’s when you lose your awareness of the surroundings. You aren’t still fully immersed in sleep, but more or less unaware of what is happening around you. This stage actually takes up most of your nightly sleep, as it’s roughly 50% of total sleep
Rem stands for rapid eye movement. During Stage five Brain waves speed up and dreaming begins. Muscles relax, heart rate increases. Breathing is shallow and rapid. Found on the site, “Huffington Post ”, it says “REM is the sleep period considered most favorable for ordinary dreaming.
The following stage is three which entails deep sleep. Deep sleep is a heavier version of sleep and are named delta or slow wave sleep formations. The third stage is a continuation into stage
It appears that we are just scratching the surface when it comes to dreams, the reasons why we dream, and the meanings of these dreams. Bibliography Freud, Sigmund, and Joyce Crick. The Interpretation of Dreams. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.
Dreams are based on the dreamer’s attitude towards life. He believed dreams were deceptive. He believed dreams provided a secure environment to overcome one’s limitations without disturbing the dreamers waking life. Also a dream could depict some important aspects about the dreamer, such as how factors like power; acceptance, etc affect the relation between the dreamer and his reality/world.
The brain exhibits delta waves and theta waves in this stage. Sleep paralysis is in full effect and the body’s vitals will begin to go down. Stage 4 is when the body is in its deepest sleep. The hardest to wake at this stage and there is no eye or muscles movement. This is the stage where people can experience night terrors, sleep walking or bed wetting.
The “why we dream argument see dreams as only nonsense that the brain creates from fragments of images and memory” (Obringer). On this side of the argument dreams are viewed as tricks of the mind that just seem to happen. Other people believe differently. Some people believe dreams have meaning even if we don’t recognize it at first. “Many think dreams are full of symbolic messages that may not be clear to us on the surface” (Obringer).
And this is how I also interpret dreams. Dreams let us wander to be adventurous, to let us remember something, but to find something new along our
When it comes to sleep, as many already know, there are various stages. However, what is rarely covered is the stages other than REM (rapid eye movement). The first stage encountered on a nightly basis is that of NREM 1 (stage 1). In this stage, our bodies essentially start to slow down various bodily functions such as breathing and pulse (“sleep”, n.d). Next comes NREM 2 (stage 2).
Today in my informative speech about dreams, I hope to enlighten you about dreams forming in our minds, the important of dreams, and lastly the interpretations of dreams. 1. First, I will discuss when dream occurs. 2.
REM sleep is responsible for our inability to move during sleep, due to brain chemicals being released through the body, which forces it to keep still. Without this, one may move during