ore likely to have negative dreams than men.Day residue and stimulus incorporation is the explanation on why we have things from our real life in dreams. For example, most of us have had a dream where the phone is ringing, but in reality it’s the alarm clock or even the real phone. This is called stimulus incorporation, which is defined as stimuli that occur during sleep that are incorporated into dreams either directly or in an altered form. Day residue is the content in dreams that is similar to events in the persons waking life. For instance, if we were to fail a test at school during the day, it would be incorporated into our dreams that night. (Kalat, 160)Now, as there is a reason for everything in life, there is a reason why we sleep and dream. As we all know from experience, limited sleep can cause fatigue, sleepiness, and irritability. In many experiments, people were awakened when they entered REM sleep but were allowed to have non-REM sleep. The lack of REM sleep caused the patients to be irritable, inefficient and fatigued. When they were finally allowed to sleep through the night, they showed an increase in the amount of REM sleep as if they were catching up on what they missed. (Kalat, 161)Now when I wake up and know I had a dream, I can think about why I had it. I can think about what I had done the day before or what I was even thinking about before I fell asleep. This will explain why I had a dream. So now I know why we have dreams and the importance of them.BibliographyCrisp, Tony. Do You Dream? San Diego: Neville Spearman, 1971.DeLaney, Gayle. All About Dreams. San Francisco: Harper Publishing, 1998.“Dreams.” Webster’s Dictionary. 1999 Ed.Kalat, James. Introduction to Psychology. 5th Ed. Belmont, CA: 1999....
