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Over a seventy-year life span, you will spend at least fifty thousand hours to dreaming (Segell 42). What you dream about can be very different from one individual to another and from one dream to another in the same individual. Many things affect what we dream about and the theories about why we dream vary. Scientists believe that dreaming is a natural process of the brain. On the other hand, Psychologists believe that our dreams are secretive emotions. Both sides have been spending years researching dreams and yet we are still baffled. 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
We don't hear the rain pounding against the window but we will wake up as soon as the thunder strikes. Dreams are visual in nature and often do not use taste, smell or touch. According to Freud, dreams are the road to the unconscious mind. This is what gives rise to a dream in a scientist's perspective. We close our most important sensory channels, our eyes, and try to protect the other senses from all stimuli or from any modification of the stimuli acting on them (Freud 56). Gender affects many things, including the way we dream. He felt dreaming was a time away from the waking self in which your innermost thoughts and feelings could be liberated.
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