Sleep And Dreams Research Papers

Have you ever wondered what the point of sleep was? Or, how we dream? A lot of scientists have researched and tried to determine why we sleep, but a true answer has never been concluded, but a strong theory has stated that us as humans may have evolved from animals that would sleep to put their body in a resting state, to keep them away from harm and to keep their body at a well-rounded temperature throughout the night. All mammals sleep, including marine animals such a platypus and a whale. Dreams have been recorded since ancient Aztec Indian times. They would make cloth paintings to record their dreams; they would use them to predict what would happen and certain people that recorded their dreams would be known as a form of a fortune teller. …show more content…
You cannot dream, in the sense of the REM state, when you’re awake. Around ¾ through your sleep is when you start dreaming or enter the REM state. If you were able to open someone's eyes during their REM state, their eyes would be flickering like an old film tape. Our mind is in an active state while we dream, but our body is at rest. There is a counterpart to that, which is sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis occurs when your mind wakes up along with your body, but your body is still in the REM state, so you can’t move, but you can see and feel the things you would be experiencing in the REM state of sleep. So, what would happen if we didn’t dream? As of now, there are theories, but no known answer to the question. When we sleep, we see the things that we've to see in the real world, but in our own way. Dreams are when the process of visualizing and thinking transfer into our deep thoughts and enter our REM state of sleep, so without the REM state, we would seemingly be unable to comprehend the random ‘files' entering our mind at any given moment during sleep. Without all of this going on, we may all go insane, due to the incapability to dream, and causing our thoughts and images to be cluttered and