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Before we can even consider where dreams come form or what causes them you must first understand the steps and stages to sleep. In order for a person to dream they must be in a period of rest which they lose awareness of their surroundings, that which is sleep. Once a person has fallen asleep, they will enter into the first of five stages of sleep. Stages one through four are usually termed as non-REM (rapid eye movement) sleep with stages three and four also being referred to as delta sleep, due to evidence of low frequency brain waves. It is said that non-REM sleep makes up about 80% of sleep and REM sleep makes up the remaining 20%. Stage one lasts around seven minutes. This

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We don't hear the rain pounding against the window but we will wake up as soon as the thunder strikes. He felt dreaming was a time away from the waking self in which your innermost thoughts and feelings could be liberated. 1998 v96, n8, p190-191, 236

Freud, Sigmund. Stimuli that could affect a dream include the amount of stress we are under, if we are feeling ill, menstruation, and the position we are in, including the direction we are facing! Almost every noise, contact or feeling influences a dream image. stage is a time when the brain produces alpha waves as we are going from being awake to sleep (Lowe 83). We are so extraordinary in that we are aware of what is going on and who we are. Stages two through four are periods in which the dreamer falls deeper and deeper into sleep. Because of this they will either dream about how aggressive they are or their lack of aggression. This is important because it helps research; before we can completely understand dreams we must first understand how the mind works. It has been reported in sleep studies that 80% of people awakened from REM sleep were dreaming (Lowe 118). This, however, doesn't always work. The length of dreams will always vary, but most last as long as a daydream would last.

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