Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

Sleep Paralysis and The Paranormal Sleep paralysis itself has been around for many centuries. However, with the development of cultures and more people sharing their experiences, sleep paralysis now has many theories relating to the paranormal surrounding it. This paper will explore various supernatural theories, including the paranormal and alien abductions, along with the lasting trauma people face after having a sleep paralysis episode. Sleep paralysis is known to be common during sleep.…

We sleep for about a third of our lives, babies for up to 20 hours a day, adolescents up to 12, even adults 7 to 8 hrs. We are finding out more and more about the structure of sleep. The most puzzling aspect of sleep is dreaming. Why does the brain generate images and action while we sleep, even when most of the brain’s activity decreases? You’re at a party and everyone seems to be having a good time except you, because they’re all talking in a foreign language. The person who is…

? Your self esteem is how you feel about yourself based on your actions. Its what you have control over. Its how you feel about yourself from the inside out. Overall its your values and the actions you take to become who you are. A question you might ask yourself is "Are you satisfied with yourself?" Your self worth has a much more spiritual bend to it. Because its directly related to your identity, you feeling of importance on earth, also its your sense of self. To me there 's a major…

However, the dream that individuals have occur during the rapid eye movement sleep where we think and see different things in our mind. Furthermore, in the non-rapid eye movement sleep each stage can last up to five to fifteen minutes. In stage one, even though the eyes of a person is closed it is easy for the person to wake up. Stage two, the person is in light sleep where your heart rate and temperature goes down…

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…

are the successions of ideas,images,sensations and emotions that occurs in the mind involuntarily during our certain stages of sleep.”oneirology” is the term for the scientific study of dreams. Dreams majorly occur in the REM i.e., the rapid- eye movement stage of sleep(when our brain activity is high and resembles the state of being awake) The length of a dream varies i.e., they can last for few seconds, minutes or even for a duration of twenty-thirty minutes, approximately. An average…

Everyday countless people having all kinds of dreams, what one dreams can be various and complicated. So where do these dreams come from? Assuming dreams come from real life, this research thinks that dreams could reflect the past, but could not reflect the future. There also exist some visional dreams from the imaginary world. Actually, the length of dreams can be variational. From my research, I found our dreams are not only from our real life, but also from our vision. INTRODUCTION As a…

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…

A dream is “a series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep”, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. However, many people don’t know that there are diverse dreaming possibilities, or that some people perceive dreams differently than others; also, dreams have a deeply rooted meaning in the subconscious. I chose to write about dreaming because I often experience bizarre and at times sporadic dreams that I wanted to learn more about. Particular people dream in particular…

In 1951 a discovery in Nathaniel kleitmans sleep lab at the unviersity of Chicago changed how we would view the idea of sleeping and dreaming forever. Kleitman and William Dement would continue to discover that during sleep we pass repeatedly through five differnet stages every night. Each cycle lasts about ninety minutes and each stage of sleep is clearly distinguished from our prone awake states. Stage one is the light stage of sleep which lasts for about five to ten minutes. During this time…