Sunday, March 20, 2011

Sleep and Dreams





I’ve always wondered if dreams actually mean something. Why do we dream? Every night we dream something though sometimes we may not remember it. Dreams help us organize information in our mind. Such is the influence dreams have on human beings that they have been responsible for various Nobel prices as many inventors have found discoveries while sleeping. In dreams we also explore aspects of our daily life we not think about that much when we are conscious. I never understood the point of having nightmares and it turns out that though they may be unpleasant they are actually very helpful. We may dream for example of a close person dying. We know that it will eventually happen and our mind Is trying to prepare us for when it does. Researchers have actually found out that most of our dreams are nightmares. There are many stages we go through when sleeping and we dream in all of them but where we dream more intensely is in R.E.M. In this stage our muscles are paralyzed because if not we would be sleepwalking and acting out our dreams. I found really interesting that there are methods to actually make you control your dreams and decide what you want to dream. As powerful as the mind is it can be possible, I would like to try it sometime. Let’s see what I dream about tonight..

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