Dreams and dreaming are an important part of our lives and cultures of
epopel around the world. They are a reliable source of insight,
enrichment, and life affirming revelations. Dreams are the language of
Before a person starts to dream, there are certain cylces or stages
a person goes through in their sleep. Sleeping is important in our
The ancient Geeks beleived that sleep was a grant. Manny people spend
There are four 90 minute stages of sleep that a person go through
their sleep. Ot begins with stage 1. This is when breathing is
heart rate slows down, and blood pressure decreases. A perosn could
awake during this stage. They are still concious. Slowly the person
to stage 2. During this stage, the person is still realzed and they do
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
soemone up when they reached this stage.
It takes about an hour for a perosn to go through all four stages.
not everyone goes through all of these stages a nioght. Throughout the
night, stages four and fivere repeated.
REM (rapid eye movement) takes place when a person is at the
level of sleep. In REM, eyes move quicly under the eyelid. Dreaming
place at this stage. Dreams occur more often and they are more real at
stage. These dreams are story like, intense, and passionate.
There are amny ways to look at dreams. The psychoanalytic,
and cognitive views of dreaming are the three wyas theories to look at
dreams. THese theories has not been tested for researchers to find
In psychoanalytic view, Freud came up with a theory called the
"wish-fulfilmetn theory." Wish-fulfilemtn throy is "Freud's theory of
interpretation that emphasizes the roles of maiffe
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