Dreaming and Sleeping

             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
             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. Many 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. It 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 realzed and they do not know what is going on in the outside surroundings. As the perosn falls
             deeper into sleep, the person falls into stage 3 and 4. It is harder to wake
             someone up when they have 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 five are repeated.
             REM (rapid eye movement) takes place when a person is at the deepest level of sleep. In REM, eyes move quickly 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 have not been tested for researchers to find enough information.
             In psychoanaltic view, Freud came up with a theory called the "wish-fulfillment theory." Wish-fulfillment theory is "Freud's theory of dream interpretation that...

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