Dreams and their meanings

Dreams

Meaning of DreamsDreams are simply emotions, feelings, and the virtual images formed by them; they are usually experienced during sleep. Human beings experience dreams in the process of eye movement rapidly during sleep. They may be strange or lack sense; crammed with pleasant emotions or scary images; direct and easily comprehensible or complex and confusing. The dreams and the whole dreaming process are a very crucial part of our life together with peoples’ cultures within the planet. They are a trusted insight source, individual building and life related revelations. In most cases dreams speak out a person’s subconscious mind. Before humans begin dreaming there are various stages and cycles which a person undergoes when sleeping. It is very important to sleep to have some time to sleep in our lives. Early Greeks had believed that sleep was basically granted, most persons took around twenty five years in dreamland and sleeping.

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TOC o “1-3” h z u Meaning of Dreams PAGEREF _Toc377017860 h 1Stages of sleep PAGEREF _Toc377017861 h 1Daydreaming PAGEREF _Toc377017862 h 2Recurring dreams PAGEREF _Toc377017863 h 2The relationship between dreams and physiology PAGEREF _Toc377017864 h 3What we can learn from dreams PAGEREF _Toc377017865 h 5Works Cited PAGEREF _Toc377017866 h 5

Stages of sleep

There are four one and half hour stages of sleep which a person goes through while sleeping. The first stage is a situation where breathing is normal, the heartbeat rate lowers down and the pressure of blood comes down CITATION Dom85 l 1033 (Domhoff). One could still not have slept during this time are still very conscious. Gradually the individual crosses over to stage two where the individual could still be realized but are unaware of the happenings within the surroundings outside. As the individual falls deep asleep, he/she crosses over to stage three and four it is very difficult to wake him/her up at this stage. The three stages take around one hour, but then not everybody goes through all these stages within one night. Rapid movement of the eye occurs when someone is deep asleep. This is the stage where dreaming goes on, they occur mostly and seem realistic at this stage. There are several types of dreams as follows.

Daydreaming

Daydreaming which is a ranked as the amount of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. Research indicates that people are likely to daydream a mean figure of seventy to one twenty minutes in a day. This kind of dream happens when walking and when your thoughts take a better side of you. We also have lucid dreams which happen when we notice that we are dreaming. Many of us wake up when we notice it was all but a dream some decide to keep in that lucid state making impacts on their dreams results. There is also a common type of dream know as a nightmare which basically are bad dreams that happen at night. They are troubling and forces the dreamer to wake up feeling frightened. They may be caused to realistic traumas and circumstances. They may also be as a result of not coming to terms with a certain reality in your life. It affects people that have attempted taking their lives mostly and is a fear signal and requires urgent attention.

Recurring dreams

There are dreams also referred to as recurring dreams which as the name suggest occur repeatedly within a short span of time and with little changes in the dream content. Mostly they occur due to non resolved matters that occurred in previous dreams. There are also epic dreams which are so wide, clear and captivating that the dreamer cannot just reject. The information from the dream remains in the dreamer’s mind for a long period of time or even years. There are those dreams that dreamers wish they were real and it does feel like their lives have been changed forever. The last type of dream is mutual dreams which occur to more than one subjects sometimes they might be pre planned or happen concurrently.

The topic dreams were chosen because of several reasons first, most of us have had dreams both interesting and scary once hence it is a topic that is easily understandable. There are also several areas within dreams where minimal studies have been conducted and it would be nice to explore more in such areas. As a physiology student, dreams and my profession correlate to a larger degree and it would be great for me to study it. It would also be easy to source for information through personal experiences of friends and from a few books in the library.

The relationship between dreams and physiology

The first relationship is between dreams and physiological aspects such as mental derangement which basically concerns three issues. The first one is clinical together with etiological relations, which occurs when a dream stands for or kick starts a psychotic state, or occur consequently in such a state. The second issue is regards the transitions which dream life goes through in situations of mental illness. The last issue has revealed inside relations between psychoses and dreams, analogies which lead to a cherished relationship CITATION Wam05 l 1033 (Wamsley).

The various relationships between two types of scenarios were in the previous medical science times and are still there currently. With respect to etiological and clinical correlations between psychoses and dreams, it is said that the initial insanity attack is often linked with a frightening anxiety dream, and that the fundamental issues are connected to this dream. Similar sentiments are aired by others in relation to the paranoiac’s issues. Psychosis might reveal itself so soon or concurrently with the dream that harbors its valuable delusive elucidation, or it may build up gradually via succeeding dreams that still have to fight against qualm. In a few cases of Santic a touching dream was followed by sight frenzied attacks, which were also succeeded by a nervous despondent state CITATION Ble01 l 1033 (Blechner).

In particular circumstances, melancholic symptoms are part of the dream life, or psychosis stands are restricted to the life of a dream. There are also nocturnal insanity cases whereby patients are actually completely normal during the day, while they experience the frenzy fits, and hallucinations at night. There have also been cases whereby dreams are replaced with sporadic insanity. Hence there can be no single focus to psychology but must also be accompanied with a focus on dream psycho-pathology.

The happenings that transpire during dream life in cases of severe psychotics, fewer studies have been conducted as of now. Much of the previous focus was on the inside relationship

Concerning the changes which the dream-life undergoes in chronic psychotics, little research has been undertaken as yet. On the other hand, early attention was given to the inner relationship between physiological ailments such as mental challenges and dreams which is clearly illustrated by the revelations that come out in each. Various definitions have emerged in this area such as one that a lunatic is a walking state dreamer and that insanity is simply a dream whereby senses are awake and the most interesting of all is that dreams are short insane moments while insanity is a dream that takes long CITATION Bul10 l 1033 (Bulkeley). It is also alleged that the sane might experience almost all revelations which we watch in the insane asylums.

The fact that dreams and psychological disorders match, goes further to the trait information, forms one formidable affirmation of the medical version of dream life, on which basis the dream is manifested as a vague and troubling process, and as the appearance of a dwindled psychic task. We therefore cannot be expected currently to draw conclusions regarding dreams from the supernatural derangements, because it is clear to us that the source of such claims cannot be trusted fully. It is however possible that a better dream outset may also affect our perception concerning the inside mechanism of psychological mental problems,

What we can learn from dreams

Even if we experience dreams that have no psychological importance, they still have proven vital to human beings they help us learn a lot of things first, in most communities dreams help in diagnosing ailments and to communicate with the world of spirits. Dreams also help to indicate whether predictions and locate games or prophesies future happenings. Most communities have from the 1900’s applied psychotherapy however, not commonly in recent times when stress is on short-term therapy and on imagining the thoughts that make sense CITATION Jha04 l 1033 (Jha). Dreams can be of great help when reticent patients communicate more private issues particularly when people are not individually accountable for their dreams as compared to their other sayings.

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Domhoff, G. W. The Mystique of Dreams. Berkeley: University of California Press. , 1985.

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Wamsley, E. J., & Antrobus, J. A new beginning for empirical dream research. American Journal of Psychology, 2005.