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Dreams

Someone once said, Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country (Nin, The Diaries of Anais). Dreams are the result of subconscious thoughts and desires. The other theory to dreams are random noises in the neurons of the brain without special meaning. Dreams are the mental activity that takes place during sleep. Usually during REM sleep is when dreams occur (Oxford University). Normally everyone dreams several times a nightsome drugs and alcohol may impair the dream process. The inability to recall dreams is not abnormal though. Dreams are communication of the body, mind, and spirit in a symbolic state. The human brains are in constant activity when sleeping. Different states of conciseness cause different brain wave activity. The brain usually has ordinary sequences of imagination. For thousands of years dreams were regarded as visions or prophesies. Dreams seem to be a way for the subconscious mind to sort out and process all the input that is encountered while people are awake. Dreams can also improve your emotional well being, reduce stress, improve creativity, and provide a playground for your mind while your body recovers and repairs itself. Contrary to the view that dreams server no function one theorist suggests that, dreams are the brains way of unlearning or removing certain or unneeded memories (Kasschall, Richard). In other words dreams are a form of mental housecleaning. Such mental housecleaning might be necessary because it is not useful to remember every single detail of your life. There are two functions of dreams: to fulfill conscious wishes, to guard sleep. Most dreams also have been recorded as unpleasant. As you begin to fall asleep your body temperature declines, your pulse rate drops, and your breathing begins to slow and even, this is called stage one sleep (Kaschall Richard). A more active type of sleep is characterize...

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