and a Dream

What is a dream? The scientific definition of a dream is when there is a very small amount of brain activity and there is no sense of self-awareness. Most dreaming occurs in the REM (rapid eye movement) stage. This is the stage during which accelerated respiration and heart rate, muscle relaxation, and increased brain activity occurs. This stage is also called paradoxical sleep. During a dream, the dreamer experiences an incredibly lifelike ordeal, and the shutting down of the self-awareness causes them to encounter the dream in a first person point of view, generally without the knowledge of who they are and being unable to control the circumstances, and is also almost never aware that they are even dreaming. Dreams can last from five minutes…

The dream I will be interpreting is one I had a while ago, but never understood due to it being so random and strange. Granted I had this dream when I was in middle school, so when names such as Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift or Braydon (my middle school crush) come up, that is why. The dream starts out and I am standing in a hotel lobby. The lobby is huge. Big enough to have a concert in, which is exactly what was happening. Taylor Swift was performing and a small crowd of about 300 people were…

Have you ever thought about where dreams come from? We have all been there in the middle of the night, where a dream seems so real that you wake up thinking you have actually experienced it. Some people think dreams happen because we are recalling events that occurred earlier in the day, or maybe because we are able to have visions from the future, but do we really know their main origin? Aristotle once defined dreams as a perceptionless state where our senses of our outside stimulus are shut…

In the popular imagination, dreamscapes are all populated by flying people and magical nakedness, and probably art-directed by David Lynch. But according to decades of research, dreams usually centre around fairly realistic portrayals of familiar things: people, places and activities. Literally: snoresville. If this seems disappointingly banal you only have yourself to blame, since many aspects of dream content are thought to be reflections of your emotional slate in regular, awake life.…

Are Dreams Messages from Our Subconscious Mind or Insignificant Manifestations? One of the most mysterious and intriguing functions of the brain is the process which takes place every night while we sleep, the process is called dreaming. Psychologists and similar professionals have theorized on the purpose of dreams for years, but no conclusion has been reached so far. While currently there is no single theory that can be purported as the ultimate explanation of why we dream, looking at and…

How often do you dream? What do you dream of? Why do people struggle to act upon their dreams? Is it fear of failure? They are insecure in their abilities? According to John A. Appleman “The first ingredient of success is to dream a great dream” .Good day to everyone. I am Angelo Taypen. For today’s talk I would like to give you an inspirational speech about dream. I have never heard of anyone dreaming of failure or aspiring to be unsuccessful, maybe to other person but not to themselves.…

Dreams have always been a curiosity. How they seem to reflect reality at times but bring us to other worlds at other times is confounding to us. Over the years there have been many theories about dreams and even more questions. What are dreams? How are they formed? How does dreaming affect us? Do our dreams have meaning? Does reality, stress, and trauma factor into our dreams? The answers to these are complicated and still mostly undiscovered, but this essay will cover some of what has been…

Dream Theory Everyone on planet Earth dreams, whether they claim they dream or not. Dreams are a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind, typically occurring during REM sleep. But, why do people dream? Many famous psychologists have come up with theories on why humans dream and the purpose of a dream is. One such psychologist is Sigmund Freud with his famous, yet non-scientific, theory that dreams are symbolic expressions of a person’s unconscious conflict or…

What are dreams designed to do? How do we dream? Do they even mean anything? These are questions people may contemplate when they wake in the morning after encountering a series of thoughts, images, and sensations that occurred during their sleep. Every person in the world – big or small, rich or poor – has drifted off and dreamt at some point in their life. Many of these people ignore what occupied their minds that night, continue on with their day, and forget what the dream was even about by…

Regardless of the difficulties that one encounters when aiming to develop a valid dream interpretation, Freud’s interpretations, at his time, were quite convincing due to his effort to form a scientific-like explanation for them and avoid making abstract theories. For example, in The Interpretation of Dreams (1900a), he argues that “every dream is a wish which is represented as fulfilled, that the representation acts as a disguise if the wish is a repressed one, belonging to the unconscious, and…