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Dreaming And Sleeping
Dreaming and Sleeping Word Count: 1170 Dreams and dreaming are an important part of our lives and cultures of epopel around the world. They are a reliable source of insight, personal enrichment, and life affirming revelations. Dreams are the language of a person's subconscious mind. Before a person starts to dream, there are certain cylces or stages that a person goes through in their sleep. Sleeping is important in our lives. The ancient Geeks beleived that sleep was a grant. Manny people spend about 25 years in sleeping and dreaming. There are four 90 minute stages of sleep that a person go through in their sleep. Ot begins with stage 1. This is when breathing is regular, heart rate slows down, and blood pressure decreases. A perosn could still be awake during this stage. They are still concious. Slowly the person drifts to stage 2. During this stage, the person is still realzed and they do not know what is going on in the outside surroundings. As the perosn falls deeper into sleep, the person falls into stage 3 and 4. It is harder to wake soemone up when they reached this stage. It takes about an hour for a perosn to go through all four stages. Yet, not everyone goes through all of these stages a nioght. Throughout the night, stages four and fivere repeated. REM (rapid eye movement) takes place when a person is at the deepest level of sleep. In REM, eyes move quicly under the eyelid. Dreaming takes place at this stage. Dreams occur more often and they are more real at this stage. These dreams are story like, intense, and passionate. There are amny ways to look at dreams. The psychoanalytic, biological, and cognitive views of dreaming are the three wyas theories to look at dreams. THese theories has not been tested for researchers to find enough information. In psychoanalytic view, Freud came up with a theory called the "wish-fulfilmetn theory." Wish-fulfilemtn throy is "Freud's theory of dream interpretation that emphasizes the roles of maiffest and latent content of dreams" (Huffman, Vernoy, and Vernoy, 139). In a psychoanalytic view, they say that dreams are hidden signs of supresses needs. In a biological perspective, they beleive that dreams are not importatn- they are stimultaion of brain cells. In a cognitive view, they beleive dreams is an important part of information proecssing. There is no proven fact on why we dream. This is why there are a lot og theories on dreaming. There is amnu dream theorists that wrote theories on why epople dream. Fruend was always nchnated by dreams. He belived that all dreams are meaningful. In Frued's theory, he wrote that dreams carry our hidden desires. Jung, another perosn who wrtoe about therores on dreaming wrtoe that dreams carry meaning and that these dreams can be interperted by the dreamer. There is many theories about dreams yet, Freud's theory stands out the most. He beleived that a dream portrays an ongoping wish wioth the previous days activites. People mioght also deram about wihses that they had as a child. Freud also beleived that nothing ismade up in a dream. They are biologically determined and obtained from perosn's needs and personal ecperiences. The most iunteresting ideas among his theroy is his theory of dream occurence. Dr...This is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Electronic References. Please register below now! Get This Full Article After Registration
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