Dreaming and Sleeping
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Dreams and dreaming are an important part of our lives and cultures of people around the world. They are a reliable source of insight, personal
enrichment, and life affirming revelations. Dreams are the language of a
person's subconscious mind.
Before a person starts to dream, there are certain cylces or stages that a person goes through in their sleep. Sleeping is important in our lives. The ancient Geeks beleived that sleep was a grant. Manny people spend about 25 years in sleeping and dreaming.
There are four 90 minute stages of sleep that a person go through in their sleep. At begins with stage 1. This is when breathing is regular, heart rate slows down, and blood pressure decreases. A person could still be awake during this stage. They are still concious. Slowly the person drifts to stage 2. During this stage, the person is still realized and they do not know what is going on in the outside surroundings. As the person falls deeper into sleep, the person falls into stage 3 and 4. It is harder to wake someone up when they reached this stage.
It takes about an hour for a person to go through all four stages. Yet, not everyone goes through all of these stages a night. Throughout the night, stages four and fivere repeated.
REM (rapid eye movement) takes place when a person is at the deepest level of sleep. In REM, eyes move quicly under the eyelid. Dreaming takes place at this stage. Dreams occur more often and they are more real at this stage. These dreams are story like, intense, and passionate.
There are many ways to look at dreams. The psychoanalytic, biological, and cognitive views of dreaming are the three ways theories to look at dreams. These theories has not been tested for researchers to find enough information.
In psychoanalytic view, Freud came up with a theory called the "wish-fulfilmetn theory." Wish-fulfilemtn throy is "Freud's theory of dream interpretation that emphasizes the roles of maiffest and latent content of dreams" (Huffman, Vernoy, and Vernoy, 139). In a psychoanalytic view, they say that dreams are hidden signs of supresses needs. In a biological perspective, they beleive that dreams are not importatn- they are stimultaion of brain cells. In a cognitive view, they beleive dreams is an important part of information proecssing.
There is no proven fact on why we dream. This is why there are a lot of theories on dreaming. There is amnu dream theorists that wrote theories on why people dream. Fruend was always nchnated by dreams. He belived that all dreams are meaningful. In Frued's theory, he wrote that dreams carry our hidden desires. Jung, another perosn who wrtoe about therores on dreaming wrtoe that dreams carry meaning and that these dreams can be interperted by the dreamer.
There are many theories about dreams yet, Freud's theory stands out the most. He beleived that a dream portrays an ongoing wish with the previous days activities. People might also deram about wishes that they had as a child. Freud also beleived that nothing is made up in a dream. They are biologically determined and obtained from perosn's needs and personal experiences.
The most interesting ideas among his theroy is his theory of dream occurence. Dream will occur when the unconscious wish is bound to the preconscious instead of just being removed. If there is too much going through a person's mind-denial, regression, or repression, a dream will take place.
Jung disagreed wiht Freud's theory and developed his own theory that contradicted Freud's. Jung beleived the most effective method for a dream interpretation was sthe use of series correlation. Freud did not beleive that the dreamer could interpret theory own dream. He beleived that only trained psychologists could interpret dreams.
Jung also categorized the mind into three parts- the collective unconsciou, the personal unconscious, and the conscious. The collective unconscious does not depend on personal expereinces. The personal unconscious hold forgoteen assocation, unnoticed expereinces, repressed and discarded thoguths and half thoughts. The conscious develops through sensing, thinking, and intution.
A dream can also be traslated yet it involves sevreal stages. The first stage involes clear understanding of dream structure. In every dream, there is a dreamer. The dreamer represents consciousness and the psyche. The person represent their awareness and perspective of life.
The second stage involvoes understanding the influences producing dream content. Dremas infleunces affecting the person's subliminally. These inflerunces affecting the person's life and consciouness. A person's dream is a product of subliminal infleince.
Understanding dream descritpion is the third stage of dream translation. This stage is the most difficult to understand. Our social and cultural diffreences affect dreams and how we perceive certain dream images when we are awake. However, there are two rules of dream translation. The first rule is that all dream images are representations. Words are not issued, the subconscious mind has metaphoric images. The second rule is that all dream images reflect something mental. Dreams occur in mental domain. The objects and epople in a person's dream are not physical images. They are mental images.
The final stage invovles the order of the process and teh context of dream imagery. When a person is trying to remeber their dream they are remembering series of images. All the images from the entire dream is needed to traslate the meaning of the dream. Studying the whole dream is more important to understand then studying only one image of a dream.
Review dreams is condtions and challenges of life and how we view ourselves. These dreams show how we evolve through our life expereices. Many people beleive that theoriues on dreaming is pointless. Some beleive that dreams are meaningless to us and jsut another thing that is part of our lives. Yet, there are otehr who say dreams are either the clearing of fragments from our memory that was stored. However, there are other people who do not beleive it and argue aainst it. These epople say the dreams are important to live a full and complete life. It is difficult for us to study dream and how it works while we are sleeping. People can only decide for themselves and belive what they wa to believe in. Only the dreamer can determine what is right or wrong.
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