Dreaming

we as individuals will have four to seven dreams during the nighttime. It will take one and a half hours, roughly 20% of our time peacefully sleeping, to dream. The empirical research on massive collections of dream reports has shown that our time dreaming reflects the relationships, activities,…

total conscious control. In his words, it’s “a chance to play around with the extraordinary abilities” of your imagination (Brogaard 2012). B. For many, the experience is often therapeutic, spiritual, or simply fun. C. Brogaard writes that lucid dreaming often takes extensive practice to accomplish, requiring enough sleep time, preparation, and being in the right mindset (Brogaard 2012). D. But for many, the preparation is worth the opportunity to not only experience dreams’ mystery, but to be a…

Dreams are eccentric to interpret and question. To people, dreams offer a chance to wonder about the subconscious part inhabiting in our minds. With that, dreams are also great supplemental material as an interesting story to tell one another or to just utilize as a filler for a conversation. However, people have always wondered for ages what exactly their dreams truly meant. Could dreams prophesize one’s future– or perhaps society’s? Or, could these dreams provide a simple visionary example of…

One might argue that Raskolnikov’s actions have been dictated by chance because of two reasons. The first reason is somehow by chance he was at the right spot at the right time and overheard that the pawn lady’s sister, Lizaveta Ivanovna will not be home around seven o’ clock the next day. It was just yesterday when he went to pawn lady’s house to mask out the last details and now he knows when she will be alone in the house. Raskolnikov realizes that this is the only chance that he has and if…

Dream Symbols for Wild Cats and Crashing Planes The following two dreams were very interesting on how it brought terror for both dreamers; however, this is a good thing for it encourages them to view what is actually happening in their life. Once they acknowledge the truth, their next steps become clearer. Dream Every night, I keep having these dreams, they aren't always the same exact dream, but they all have the same similar component. At some point in my dream, there's a very large,…

Theme: Honor the Dream; Walk with Courage, Dignity and Hope A dream is a series of thoughts, images and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep. Dreams are our windows to imagination, we experience things we couldn’t in reality and we fore see paths and destinies. We are able to create for ourselves a future through our very thought and ideas and our dreams can make changes and outstanding difference in this our world. It is through our dreams that our ancestors have…

Dreams; we all have them, whether they are dreams that arise in your sleep or dreams that will determine what and who you become in a future time. According to Henry David Thoreau, "Dreams are the touchstones of our character." When first pondering upon this statement, it is difficult to decipher which "dreams" Thoreau is describing. If this quote were to be broken apart into individual words, "dreams" would refer to our desires and our hopes. What is meant by touchstones in this case is certain…

STORYTELLING Introduction The famous Jonathan Gottschal (2017) said, “We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories”. In other words people are surrounded by stories and pictures all over the day. Even when it seems that the brain has a break during the night, it still produces pictures, processed stories and changes it into dreams. Stories are told all the time and people are not even aware of that. When people…

Ever since I can remember, I have always had very vivid dreams. Most of the time my dreams do not make any sense and at other times they can be emotionally unsettling, cryptic or even exhilarating. At the young age of about five or six years old, I can remember having a dream that I was a superhero with a cape. I wasn’t doing anything heroic nor did I have on a special costume – I was merely flying around over my neighborhood and remember feeling content. A few years ago while I was pregnant…

Chambers, A. M., & Payne, J. D. (2013). Laugh yourself to sleep: memory consolidation for humorous information. Exp Brain Res, 232, 1415-1427. DIO: 10.1007/s00221-013-3779-7 The purpose of this study was to examine how sleep effects memory of humorous and non-humorous cartoons over 12 hours and whether it influences the retention of humorous information. Experiment 1 consisted of 79 Notre Dame students with a mean age of 19.95 years and 65% were female. 9 of the participants were excluded from…