In a world where dreams can be painful, fun, scary, or even boring sometimes, there is one common factor almost everyone has with dreams: we can't control them. We have all had that dream that makes us wake up with our head popping off the pillow making us ask ourselves: what just happened? Often times, we really can't quite understand why a dream happened a certain way. But amidst all the chaos, there is a small percent of people who don't wake up like this. This is because they are the masters of their dreams. These people have the ability to control what happens in their dreams. They go to bed every night and wake up in a world where gravity could have no effect, clouds could be solid and able to be walked upon, or walls no longer appear
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It is many. Even though the cerebral cortex is the area of the brain where dreams originate, all areas of our brains are stimulated. We find that if someone is dreaming about looking at art, the area of his/her brain that controls sight is activated, or if someone is dreaming about running, their muscle movement section of the brain is activated. In a sense, our brains believe that when we dream, we are actually in a reality (Schmidt, 2013)Luntz classifies lucid dreaming here, "Lucid dreaming is the somewhat misleading name given to dreams where the dreamer is aware that they are in fact dreaming. They are not necessarily any clearer than other dreams, but the dreamer can often consciously control the course of the dream, making for a more intelligible experience" (Luntz, …show more content…
REM, however, breaks this trend. REM sleep is almost parallel with stage one in terms of the depth of sleep if not even shallower. REM is also the stage of sleep when we dream.It's called Rapid Eye Movement because when someone dreams, his/her eyes shift and bounce constantly. This is also the stage that we get most of our rest from. We cycle through these stages some 2-5 times a night depending on the person and how much sleep they get. If someone ever has multiple dreams without waking up, it's because he/she has hit REM sleep multiple times that night (Schmidt,
It is many. Even though the cerebral cortex is the area of the brain where dreams originate, all areas of our brains are stimulated. We find that if someone is dreaming about looking at art, the area of his/her brain that controls sight is activated, or if someone is dreaming about running, their muscle movement section of the brain is activated. In a sense, our brains believe that when we dream, we are actually in a reality (Schmidt, 2013)Luntz classifies lucid dreaming here, "Lucid dreaming is the somewhat misleading name given to dreams where the dreamer is aware that they are in fact dreaming. They are not necessarily any clearer than other dreams, but the dreamer can often consciously control the course of the dream, making for a more intelligible experience" (Luntz, …show more content…
REM, however, breaks this trend. REM sleep is almost parallel with stage one in terms of the depth of sleep if not even shallower. REM is also the stage of sleep when we dream.It's called Rapid Eye Movement because when someone dreams, his/her eyes shift and bounce constantly. This is also the stage that we get most of our rest from. We cycle through these stages some 2-5 times a night depending on the person and how much sleep they get. If someone ever has multiple dreams without waking up, it's because he/she has hit REM sleep multiple times that night (Schmidt,