Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Does it seem like your fur baby sleeps a lot? In fact all dogs, regardless of size or breed tend to sleep most of the time and we got an explanation about that. It is safe to say that huge part of their lives are spent being asleep. Dogs tend to sleep half the day away and are only active about 20% of the day. Unlike human, dogs don’t have the same sleeping patterns and their patterns vary according to different factors not to mention that they have heightened senses which make them alert most…

Psychology – Sleep Assignment Title: Snoozzzze before you losssse What is Sleep? Sleep is described as a non-waking state of consciousness that is characterised by general unresponsiveness to the environment and physical immobility. Sleep is when the nervous system of your body is inactive and the muscles are relaxed. Why do we sleep when we do? Humans tend to sleep 5-8 hours every night, and to do so in a pattern tied to the 24-hour light-darkness cycle. This cycle is called a circadian rhythm…

One of the more interesting aspects of our brain is consciousness, but particularly, the state of our consciousness within dreams. We lose our consciousness as we enter to relax our brain and thus enter a deep sleep. However, what if we could be aware when we are unconscious? That is what lucid dreaming is. Lucid dreaming is a dream in which the dreamer is consciously aware that they are dreaming to which they may be able to have the ability to control certain aspects of the dream itself. This…

have to do with how we feel that day, or they could be just random videos that have no connection to our lives. (“Facts About Dreaming”) Our brains are very active when we sleep, especially during the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) stage, and dreams may occur because of this. REM, Rapid Eye Movement, was conceived by a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Eugene Aserinsky, and his professor Nathaniel Kleitman, in 1953 during sleep experiments. REM privation is where someone doesn’t get to…

Nightmares are something that you remember for a while and then generally forget the rest of your life. Nightmares are malevolent, terrible, and scary dreams that no one wants to dream about. The characters in the book Hunger by Michael Grant are living in a nightmare. It has been three months since all the adults and teenagers over the age of fourteen have disappeared like data expunged out of a computer (☺ simile). There is a huge dome that is surrounding Perdido Beach and Coates Academy and…

When you fall asleep, you enter a deep sleep cycle called REM sleep. REM means Rapid Eye Movement. When you enter this cycle, you get the deepest sleep, but it’s also when you begin to dream those vivid dreams you probably don’t remember when you wake up. Sure, if you’re untrained, you will only remember bits and pieces of them, but not enough to differentiate one dream from another during REM sleep. What if you could turn your dreams off altogether? At the University of California, Berkeley,…

Theories and Functions of Dreams and the Nightmare From the beginnings of human communication, dreams have made a significant impact in human life. Dreams, as we perceive them, are a sequence of images, notions, sentiments, feelings, thoughts, and impressions that occur spontaneously and unintentionally throughout sleep. In spite of the culture, society, sexual orientation, or other aspects a person can be defined from or classified into, everyone dreams regardless of physical or mental…

Stephen LaBerge 1.He was the one who introduced his method for physiological investigation of lucid dreaming through eye signals in 1980. “Although the induction of lucid dreams is quite difficult, lucid dreaming is a learnable skill”- La Berge. 2.Rem = rapid eye movements. You are paralyzed so you won 't act out what you are doing in your dream. but when you lucid dream your eyes move as if you are looking all over the place. Also your pulls rises and your brain thinks more. You will…

Deceitful Dreams According to the Oxford Dictionary, a dream is, "A cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal; An unrealistic or self-deluding fantasy." Dreams are different from one another and come in many shapes and sizes, but all dreams are purely a desire and are imaginative. In society, dreams play a large role in how people live their everyday life. For instance, people may make decisions solely based on their own dream. In the United States, a common ethos is the American Dream. The…

minutes and most of the film shot by using ‘Photomontage’ technique shot in black and white apart from one short video that shot in motion which is the scene that the girl is sleeping in the bed and the picture going to fade and then suddenly open her eyes and blinking. Photomontage is a combination of several images joined together in an artistic way. This movie has been Recognized as one of the best time travel Science-Fiction movies in the world. It has won the ‘Prix Jean Vigo Award’ for Best…