The act of dreaming is the experience of situations, images, emotions and thoughts that take place during sleep. Dreams are strongly associated with rapid eye movement also known as REM sleep, during which an electroencephalogram shows brain activity to be most like wakefulness. The contents and biological purposes of dreams are not fully understood, though they have been a topic of speculation and interest throughout recorded history. The notion that dreams have a deep meaning behind them was greatly favoured by Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud who believed the interpretation of dreams were sources of insight into unconscious desires. Another Psychiatrist, Carl Jung, also believed that dreams held significant meaning.
There are numerous subtypes of primary insomnia including; psychophysiological insomnia which is a form of anxiety-induced insomnia caused by a worry about getting a lack of sleep, idiopathic insomnia which is a lifelong sleeplessness and sleep state misinterpretation where people sleep adequately but feel they do not. The diathesis-stress model is a psychological theory explaining behaviour as a result of genetic vulnerability together with stress from life experiences. It assumes that the onset of a disorder such as insomnia results from a combination of one’s biological disposition towards the given disorder and stressful events that bring about the onset of a disorder. Other supporting evidence include Smith et al’s
Lucid Dreams Being able to understand what can happen next in your dream? Now we are talking about lucid dreams. Lucid dreaming is the playground of the mind, where we can walk through walls, jump from one roof to another or change a couch into an attractive lover. When we realize that we are dreaming while we are dreaming, when we have the ability to influence what happens in our dreams, this is what lucid dreaming is about. Lucidity usually begins in the middle of a dream where the dreamer realizes that the experience could not get into physical reality, but it's a dream.
These measure the electrical activity of the brain. Research shows that the brain produces different brain waves depending on the mental state of the patient. Deep sleep waves look different that waves of the person who is awake. Waves of the highly alert person differ from the person who is relaxed. EEG's from those under hypnosis show a boost in the lower frequency waves that are associated with dreaming or sleeping and a drop in the higher frequency waves that are seen in those who are fully awake.
The Art of the Sleep Cycle Sleeping, everybody does it, yet we can never get enough. There are many things that can happen while sleeping. Nightmares can occur, constantly wake up and not be able to fall back asleep due to sleep insomnia, it’s possible to sleep walk and perform vigorous activities that are uncontrollable. Dreams are unsolved mysteries caused by the chemical in your brain called Dimethyltryptamine. Even though it may not be believable, dreams occur every time sleeping happens.
As I began searching for articles it was my goal to research the correlation of sleep disturbances in children and anxiety. Although I did find some articles pertaining to children’s nightmares and a possible ling to anxiety, however most articles were totally different. According to a study by Smedje, Broman, and Hetta (2002), the course and psychological correlates of disturbed sleep during middle childhood were investigated using parent’s responses to questionnaires. The test explored difficulties falling asleep, bedtime resistance, snoring, night-waking, and bed wetting. The conclusion was that, during middle-childhood, difficulties falling asleep, night-waking, snoring,
Two different schools of thought exist as to why we dream: the physiological school, and the psychological school. Both, however, agree that we dream during the REM, or rapid eye movement, phase of sleep. During this phase of sleep, our closed eyes dart rapidly about, our brain activity peaks, and our muscles suffer temporary paralysis. The physiological theory centers upon how our body, specifically our brains, function during the REM phase of sleep. Proponents of this theory believe that we dream to exercise the synapses, or pathways, between brain cells, and that dreaming takes over where the active and awake brain leaves off.
The ancient Greeks were the first who tried to explain it "scientifically." The philosopher Aristotle related to the activity of the heart and an "evaporation on the process of nutrition". Likewise, Plato also related dreams with the waking hours and the mental operations (Rizzo, 1998). Even in the Old Testament and Hebrew literature, dreams are particularly important because they considered them as divine revelations. Sleep is a physiological state in which the level of surveillance is diminished and the individual rests.
Unit 2- Psychoanalytic Theory- Discussion The psychoanalytical personality theory is the theory developed by Sigmund Freud arguing that the human mind is structured into two parts. These two parts are the unconscious and conscious mind (Friedman & Schustack 2012). This theory focuses on what we as humans can remember and can easily bring into awareness and what we can’t bring into awareness without something triggering us to remember it. The focus of Freud’s theory is that much of what we dream is our unconscious thoughts and desires that affect our human behavior without even realizing it. Freud believed that “dreams are similar to icebergs—a little piece floats above the surface but much more is hidden underneath” (Friedman & Schustack 2012).
Sometimes when something happens in a dream, we think it’s real so we can get scared and nervous just like we would if we were awake. Some dreams are more emotional than others. People tend to remember their emotional dreams because they often wake up directly from them. Recurring dreams reflect feelings and awareness that haven’t been successfully resolved in ones waking hours. People can remember their dreams.