Analysing Personal Dream s through Activation Information Mode Model

Why do we dream? What do our dreams mean? Dreams are a sequence of images, ideas, and feelings that involuntarily occur most commonly during the REM stage of sleep. They come in a wide variety of types, from the peculiar to the downright terrifying; the dreamer has no control over what they experience in their dreams. Though neurologists have been studying the human brain for decades, we still don’t fully know why we dream or what their significance is. Some psychologists theorize that dreams are closely linked to our subconscious mind, expressing our deepest fears or desires, allowing us to be what we cannot be. Others believe that dreams serve no function at all and are simply our imaginations running wild. In the words of Sigmund Freud, the founding father of psychoanalysis, “The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.” (The Interpretation of Dreams)

Dreaming, although a substantial component of our nighttime lives, remains somewhat of an enigma due to the fact that it occurs while we are unconscious. The inaccessibility of the unconscious mind weakens full analysis and comprehension of dreaming which researchers have been attempting to accomplish. However, over the years many researchers have elucidated many mysteries about dreams, such as when we dream, why we dream, and what we dream about, in order to bring forth an understanding of dreams as well as identify

To many people, dreams are the thoughts that occur while sleeping, having almost mystic qualities. For millennia the significance of dreams has escaped even the brightest of philosophers and intellectuals. Many people have speculated about why people dream and what meanings the dreams have but in recent times two theories have gained credibility in answering those questions. The first theory is Sigmund Freuds and the other is known as the cognitive theory of dreams also known as biological determinism.

Thesis Statement: Dreams are successions of images, emotions, and sensations that occur subconsciously during sleep.

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Jordan Doane Informative Speech Outline Introduction to Human Communications September 27, 2014 Dreams Topic: Dreams Specific Purpose: After listening to my speech, my audience will understand more about dreams. Central Idea: Dreams, the history and process in which they occur and the different types of dreams along with the meaning behind them Introduction: Attention Getter:

The mystery of dreams have fascinated people for years. Do they have significant meaning? Do they predict the future? Is our subconscious mind trying to warn us about our waking state of mental health and awareness? There are an abundance of websites and books that help interpret significant bits and pieces of dreams that we remember. Using a few of these websites I’ll interpret a few of my own dreams and what significance they may have had at the time that they occurred and how each one can be used as a coach for future challenges.

Every dream is a meaningful as a whole facing how the brain works, rem sleep, mental simulations, and extra natural dreams. Dreams are about emotion conflicts feeling in the central brain constructing all aspects of the dream creation. Dreams are live consciousness taking place in the living moment as to waking consciousness. People dream five times the same conflict over the course of the night. Although dreams happen in REM sleep in the deepest stage of sleep dreams reveal the structure of how we visualize our lives and study our own dream.

Sleep is often accompanied by the hallucinogenic state of dreaming comprised of lucid thoughts which can often seem like real life. Recently recorded studies and experiments have exposed the world of dreaming to physiatrists. Dreaming parallels many life experiences and is unique to each individual person. With the recent observations of lucid dreams and the studies of the REM sleep, this field has vastly improved its understanding and knowledge.

Over the past few nights and mornings, I made an extra effort to remember and record my dreams from the previous night. From re-reading my notes on my dreams I have already concluded I have very strange dreams that I can hope to make sense of after looking at the different theories of why we dream.

The mind likes to play tricks on us and dreams are examples of these tricks. Dreams, for me, are hard things to describe due to the complicity that they hold. Sigmund Freud states that dreams can be divided into three categories with respect to their literal and underlying meanings. With my experience with dreams, I think that there are more than three

Dreams originally were admired as being a source of knowledge, giving information to the dreamer about their present and future prospects. The dreams held secrets, but it was not always easy to access them as you needed an interpreter to discover the hidden meanings. After the dreams were read, only then they would properly belong to the dreamer. This was the theory long before Freud, but then a new understanding of dreams came to show that a dream was more about one’s past then their future. This meaning ‘that dreams were a symbol to your future’ was to inform us what was yet to come in your life. Also that your path in life had already been written out for us to for fill. A great example of this is the story of ‘Oedipus’ because his fate

Many dreams start with cliché stories. As the judge of my essay, you have read hundreds of them, and you probably enjoy them and at one point you become weary of them.

Neurologically, dreaming is the proto conscious state that occurs during Slow Wave Sleep and REM sleep. Dreams are related to reorganizing and recoding memories in connection to emotional drives as well as transferring memories between brain regions. Episodic memories are stored in the hippocampus which is specialized for long-term memory that learns quickly. At night, memories from the hippocampus are transferred into the cerebral cortex, the region of the brain specialized for information processing, cognition, and knowledge. There are numerous studies done on why we dream and different theories conducted by psychologists.

Dreams are very unique and many people have theorized about what a dream 's meaning or purpose is, and what affects them. In most present day studies, more vivid dreams have been linked to the stage of sleep called REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. REM dreams are emotional, bizarre, and sometimes so vivid we may confuse them with reality. Most commonly, a dream’s story line incorporates traces of previous day’s experiences and preoccupations. Unless a person is awakened during REM stage of sleep or the dream is exceedingly vivid or intense, most people don’t remember anything about their dreams during REM sleep. This is likely due to the fact that during REM sleep, our brain essentially turns off the ability to encode,or create, new memories.