Have you ever woken up from a dream that was so life like that it actually seemed real? It’s such a surreal experience that it may make you wonder: What exactly is a dream? Scientists have long tried to figure that out. The basic definition is a state of consciousness characterized by sensory, cognitive and emotional occurrences during sleep. Some facts about dreaming are:
• it is thought that everyone dreams between 3 to 6 times per night. • Dreams lasts between 5 and 20 minutes. • When a person wake up, only remembered the 5 percent of their dreams because the other 95 is forgotten at he time they open their eyes • Dreaming can help you learn and develop long-term memories. • Recalling something from last week that …show more content…
Brain waves become slower, irrupted of rapid waves called sleep spindles.(45-55%)
The third stage is when extremely slow brain waves called delta start to appear, distribute with smaller, faster waves. (4-6%)
In the fourth stage what happen is that the brain produces delta waves almost exclusively. There is no eye movement or muscle activity.(12-15%)
It is very difficult to wake someone during stages 3 and 4, which together are called “deep sleep”.
The last stage is called REM and what occurs that breathing and eyes jerk becomes more quickly and irregular, limb muscles become temporally paralyzed and heat rate increases, blood pressure rises.
Have you ever dream something wishing it didn't happen? That dreams are called nightmares that cause the dreamer to feel a lot of disturbing emotions. Feelings like fear and anxiety. This dreams can be caused by stress, fear, trauma, emotional problems or illnesses.
There are another dreaming problems such are lucid dreaming is a state of sleep where the dreamer knows that they are dreaming and have two options: control them or affect how their dreams …show more content…
Does everyone dream in color?
Researchers discovered in a study that about 80% of participants younger than 30 years old dreamed in color. At 60 years old, 20% said they dreamed in color. People between 20s, 30s and 40s dream in color and it has increases through 1993 to 2009. Researchers thought that color television might play a role in the generational difference.
Another study found older adults also had more black and white dreams than the younger participants. Older people reported that both their color dreams and black and white dreams were equally as vivid. However, younger participants said that their black and white drams were of poorer quality.
Does blind people dream in color?
“When a blind man is asked if he dreams the answer is immediate: "Yes!" But if we ask him if he sees anything in the dream, the answer is always doubtful because he does not know what it is to see. Even if there were images and colours in his brain during the dream how could he recognize them? There is, therefore, no direct way, through the dream reports, to evaluate the presence of visual activation in the dream of congenitally blind subjects.” --Bértolo, Mestre, Barrio, & Antona,
• it is thought that everyone dreams between 3 to 6 times per night. • Dreams lasts between 5 and 20 minutes. • When a person wake up, only remembered the 5 percent of their dreams because the other 95 is forgotten at he time they open their eyes • Dreaming can help you learn and develop long-term memories. • Recalling something from last week that …show more content…
Brain waves become slower, irrupted of rapid waves called sleep spindles.(45-55%)
The third stage is when extremely slow brain waves called delta start to appear, distribute with smaller, faster waves. (4-6%)
In the fourth stage what happen is that the brain produces delta waves almost exclusively. There is no eye movement or muscle activity.(12-15%)
It is very difficult to wake someone during stages 3 and 4, which together are called “deep sleep”.
The last stage is called REM and what occurs that breathing and eyes jerk becomes more quickly and irregular, limb muscles become temporally paralyzed and heat rate increases, blood pressure rises.
Have you ever dream something wishing it didn't happen? That dreams are called nightmares that cause the dreamer to feel a lot of disturbing emotions. Feelings like fear and anxiety. This dreams can be caused by stress, fear, trauma, emotional problems or illnesses.
There are another dreaming problems such are lucid dreaming is a state of sleep where the dreamer knows that they are dreaming and have two options: control them or affect how their dreams …show more content…
Does everyone dream in color?
Researchers discovered in a study that about 80% of participants younger than 30 years old dreamed in color. At 60 years old, 20% said they dreamed in color. People between 20s, 30s and 40s dream in color and it has increases through 1993 to 2009. Researchers thought that color television might play a role in the generational difference.
Another study found older adults also had more black and white dreams than the younger participants. Older people reported that both their color dreams and black and white dreams were equally as vivid. However, younger participants said that their black and white drams were of poorer quality.
Does blind people dream in color?
“When a blind man is asked if he dreams the answer is immediate: "Yes!" But if we ask him if he sees anything in the dream, the answer is always doubtful because he does not know what it is to see. Even if there were images and colours in his brain during the dream how could he recognize them? There is, therefore, no direct way, through the dream reports, to evaluate the presence of visual activation in the dream of congenitally blind subjects.” --Bértolo, Mestre, Barrio, & Antona,