Dream, Dream, Dream

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Dream, Dream, Dream

• Why do we dream?

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Quick Hits

• What are the stages of sleep called?
• What occurs during REM sleep?
• In what stage can sleep walking occur?
• In what stage do delta waves occur?
• In what stage does the falling sensation occur?

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Dreams

• The children were nestled all snug in their
  beds, while visions of sugar-plums danced in
  their heads
• Twas the night before Christmas
• Dreams are an important part of sleepbut why?

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Facts on Dreams

• 1/3 of your life is spent sleeping
• Throughout your life you will spend 6 years of it
  dreaming
• The Roman Senate would interpret dreams that were
  submitted
• Lack of dreams means a protein deficiency or
  personality disorders

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• Those that are blind dream
• Five minutes after the end of the dream, half the
  content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90 is
  lost.

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Why do we dream?

• There are three theories on why we dream
• Random thoughts
• File information
• Help solve problems

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Random Thoughts

• As we sleep, random thoughts fly through our
  brain, and the mind tries to make sense of those
  random thoughts, giving us a story line.

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Filing Cabinet

• Throughout the day the brain takes in a lot of
  information
• In order to sort that information, dreams occur

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Help Solve Problems

• Some people believe that dreams help solve
  problems that we have throughout the day

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Contemporary Approaches

• Psychoanalytic- unconscious
• motives and conflicts determines
• human behavior, feelings, and
• thoughts
• Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939)
• Dream Analysis
• Linked everything to sex!
• Free Association- say anything that comes to
  mind.

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Freuds Theory on Dreams

• Freud believes that your Id is released in your
  dreams and therefore have meaning
• Your Id must be released in your dream so you do
  not act it out in real life

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• Manifest Content- Story line of your dreams.
• Latent Content- Underlying meaning of a dream.

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Lucid Dream

• A dream in which one is aware that one is
  dreaming.
• The dreamer may be able to exert some degree of
  control over their participation within the dream
  or be able to manipulate their imaginary
  experiences in the dream environment.
• Brain Stuff
• Shown that lucid dreamers can experience
  frequencies of 13-19 HZ
• Increased amount of activity in the parietal
  lobes making lucid dreaming a conscious process.

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