Dreams By Celeste Madsen

The mind dreams are a result of activities taking place in the brain. Scientist have found that the brain gives off electromagnetic waves while you dream. During the period while the electromagnetic waves are fast your eyes are moving rapidly Sometimes while dreaming you cannot move your body, this period is called REM

Mind Scientist believe that dreaming sleep has a role in restoring the brain's ability to handle such tasks as focused attention, memory, and learning. Also a person's hidden feelings often surface in dreams

Brain waves:

Tips to avoid nightmares and to get a good nights sleep: Sleep schedule Avoid caffeine Exercise Don’t lie awake in bed Control temperature

what you can do? Before you go to bed: write down the date and what events happened that day (journal) If you wake up in the middle of the night: try to recall if you had any dreams and write them down When you wake up in the morining: write down how many hours you slept, and if you are still tired or if you feel well rested, and try and recall any dreams that you had

Dream questions: Do your dreams relate to what you did the day before? As you start writing down your dreams do they become able to recall?

Sometimes known as the “father of sleep medicine” “dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” –William C. Dement Sometimes known as the “father of sleep medicine” Is a US sleep researcher Founded the worlds first sleep laboratory which is found at Stanford university Studies sleep deprivation and treatment of sleep disorders.

The five characteristics of dream consciousness 1. Feel emotion (fear, happiness, love) 2. be in one place and then in another with out any travel 3. still have sensation (vision) 4. uncritical acceptance (normal) 5.difficulty remembering

Nightmares An average college student has about 24 nightmares a year. Some people have nightmares as often as once a night Children have more nightmares than adults People who have experienced traumatic events are more likely to have nightmares than people that don’t

Dreams “Day residue”- where a current problem pops into the dream Dreams pull images from your everyday life to make them seem more surreal, and also images from your past.

Dream theories In the first psychological theory of dreams Sigmund Freud he proposed that dreams were confusing and obscure because the dynamic unconscious creates them to be. In his theory's dreams represent wishes and some only express them in disguised form.

example For Freud's theory in the book it gives an example on page 250: A dream about a tree burning down in the park across the street from where a friend once lived might represent a camouflaged wish for the death of the friend. Though wishing for the death of a friend is unacceptable, so it is disguised as a tree on fire.

Not all dreams represent hidden wishes, but some are suppressed thoughts and some are feeling that you may have been hiding or sometimes feelings that you did not necessarily have.

Activations synthesis model This is the theory that dreams are produced when the mind attempts to make sense of random neural activity that occurs in the brain during sleep.

Different types of dreaming Day dreaming: you are awake, may be when bored or tired Lucid dreaming: when you realize you are dreaming and can change the dream to what you like Recurring dreams: when you get the same dream many different times Prophetic dreams: dreams that happen in real life, that tell the future Signal dreams: Epic dreams: when you wake up you feel like you have realized something, also known as life changing dreams Progressive dreams: help you face a fear or problem Mutual dreams:when you and someone else have the same dream

Dreams meaning: Running away from something or someone: you need to face something.. Try turning around and asking them why they are chasing you. Falling: you are afraid of something and are afraid of failing, or paranoid. Teeth falling out: you are self conscious, afraid of what someone might think of you