My Dream Experience

Having a dream and living with passion is very important because I believe living without passion is like being dead. Someone like Tony Hawk could agree. Tony Hawk has been a professional skateboarder for over 24 years. However, he did not receive that title overnight; Tony got his first skateboard when he was only 9 years old. Since then, Tony worked extremely hard and put a lot of his focus on skateboarding. He did it because that was his Dream. Tony’s Dream was frowned upon by many of his teachers and adults alike. One of his teachers even told him that he “would never make it in the workplace if he didn’t follow directions exactly” (Hawk), but he never gave up his Dream. He kept working hard and eventually became a pro at the young age of 15.

There are many things I want to do when I am out there in the real world. I am like every teenager out there with countless dreams. I grew up with so many dreams. When I was still young, I wanted to be a police officer, a firefighter, an astronaut, even a doctor! But as I grew up I would narrow it all down to one or two choices and I have to choose one and what I want to be in life soon. I already know what I want to do with my life. What I Intend to do later in life is just to live a normal life and being happy with what I am doing, but since I love exotic cars, I plan on buying one. But buying these types of car is going to cost me huge amounts of money.

You’re lying on the bed, and you’re almost falling asleep. Suddenly, you have a feeling of falling from the rooftop of a skyscraper straight to the ground, and your legs twitch. We are familiar with this felling because we all have the experience during our sleep sometimes. Hypnic jerk, which is also known as sleep twitch, is not a sleep disorder; instead, it is a common and natural body reaction in sleep hours. “with some research suggesting that 60 to 70 percent of people experience them” (Castro). Although psychologists and scientists still don’t discover the exact causes of hypnic jerk, they have already proposed some hypothesis about how hypnic jerk occur during sleep.

Some signs of cataplexy are slurred speech, weakness of muscles, and intense emotions. Cataplexy effects muscle tone while awake, effects part or all of your body, may make your head nod, ,may be hard to speak, falling (weakening at the knees), and strong emotions. During this time, you're usually awake. In addition, hallucinations are another symptom pointing towards the condition narcolepsy. These hallucinations are called hypnologic hallucinations. Due to the fact that you may be awake when you're dreaming, these dreams may seem like reality or may be nightmares. Some signs of having a hallucination are vivid dreams when falling asleep, waking up, dozing, and life-like dreams. Finally, sleep paralysis is a symptom of narcolepsy. Sleep paralysis prevents you from moving or speaking while falling asleep and waking up. During this period you are fully conscious. Some signs you have sleep paralysis is you don't sleep well at night, you have trouble falling and staying asleep, nightmares interrupt sleep, having difficulty finishing daily tasks, and being hyperactive.

Sleep paralysis episodes typically occur during transitions from wakefulness to sleep (the hypnagogic state) or from sleep to wakefulness (the hypnopomipc state) (Cheyne, 2002). Abnormalities in this transition may allow sleep and waking processes to overlap. (Cheyne, Newby-Clark & Rueffer, 1999). Sleep paralysis experiences are not always nightmarish and do not always elicit fear (Sherwood, 2002). Most episodes, however, incorporate imagery or sensations, which cause fear. Images of threatening human or human like figures such as ghosts and demons are particularly common (Powell & Nielsen, 1998). People experiencing sleep paralysis report a subjective feeling of

Sleep paralysis can be the caused of many things such as , lack of sleep, stress and sadness,or just not being in a good mood in general. There are a lot of different factors that come toghether to cause this sort of problem known as sleep paralsyis.and what happens during sleep paralysis is not only that your body enters a state of not being able to physically move but your mind wakes up while you were in these dreams, you are not lucid you are fully conscious you can simply not move your body. Its different from lucid dreaming because youre merging to seperate worlds, the lucid world and the conscious world. And to the state of your mind thinking that its still in a dream when you are truly fully awake. It is so hazy from the sensations that happen within your rem cycle within your dreams that thus because of this, doesnt know its woken up. Whats scary about this state is our mind and body would not actually take in ;sound, sight ,hearing, smell, all these different factors are coming into our body at the time when our mind is waking up but our body wont move . it makes these sensations overload our brain and because of these factors, which people recieve horrible experience that people

Risks and creativity seem like they can never correlate, but in “Create Dangerously” and “Dreams that have changed the world”, Edwidge Danticat and Van De Castle contrast the risks taken in creativity to produce a satisfying masterpiece. Danticats an immigrant artist creates despite the adversity she faced; Danticat has taken risks and wrote against the horrors of Haiti. However Van De Castle a great dream theorist has shown many examples of creativity in the dream world and how the risks taken to create in the awaken world has led to the formation of awarding winning pieces. Danticat in “Create dangerously” and Van De Castle in “Dreams that have changed the world” portray analogous ideas on how risks are a part of the creativity process. Danticat

There are many commands the brain gives out and sometimes those commands get a tad bit confused. Sleep paralysis is mostly due to the mind confusing the sleep cycles and over relaxation in the muscles. During sleep we pass through five stages of sleep, which involve the REM Cycles. During Stage one, we drift in and out of sleep and can easily be awakened. When we are in stage one our eyes slowly move behind our eyelids and our muscle activity starts to slow down. This is where we get that slight feeling where it’s like were falling and often see fragmented visuals. We often experience muscle contraction known as hypnic myoclonia, which is periodic limb movement disorder. Hypnic Myoclonis is a type of sleep disorder as well, it is rhythmic movement of the limbs during sleep. It can last anywhere from a few minutes to several hours whenever they are clustered into episodes. Hypnic Myoclonia are very common that it has become normal for a person to have them. These sudden movements are common to what we feel when someone scares us. When we move into stage two our brain

Sleep Paralysis is a phenomenon resulting in temporary inability to move or speak upon waking or falling asleep. It occurs when the brain and the body are not quite on the same page when it comes to sleep. In normal REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, neurotransmitters in your spinal cord prevent you from moving during dreams, perhaps to keep you from acting out your dreams. When REM ends, their hold lifts. But if you wake too quickly, you might emerge mid-paralysis.

This is sleep paralysis. A phenomenon where a person awakens from sleep to find that they are unable to move or speak. It often occurs during transitions from REM sleep, a paradoxical sleep stage where vivid dreams are coupled with complete muscle paralysis, to inhibit the body from acting out dreams.

Sleep Paralysis. Sleep Paralysis is a moment when a person is falling asleep or awakening and their body cannot make a single reaction as in moving or speaking. It can be a terribly scary situation for any individual when this occurs, but despite former beliefs, the feeling of paralysis is not caused by supernatural beings. It is a transitional state between wakefulness and sleep, characterized by muscle weakness. One hypothesis says it is a result from disrupted REM sleep, which normally induces complete muscle weakness to prevent sleepers from acting out their dreams. Sleep Paralysis has been linked to disorders such as migraines, anxiety disorders, and also can occur in isolation.

Sleep paralysis, occurs with the most normal sleeper, so it’s possible it can happen to you. What I’m really trying to get across is, why not educate yourself with it now, so you’ll be more aware when it does happen.

This is the stage we enter into right as we are falling asleep, obviously. Sometimes, in stage 1 sleep, people experience sudden muscle spasms called hypnic myoclonia. This is sometimes experienced if we have a dream we are falling and hit the ground.

Sleep paralysis is a temporary feeling which occurs when an individual is either falling asleep (hypnagogic form) or waking up (hypnopompic form). While having an episode of sleep paralysis, you may be unable to move your arms, legs, or head, as well as not being able to speak. This may feel as though it is happening in real life, rather than it being just a dream or nightmare. During this occurrence, you are fully aware of what is happening but you are unable to do anything about it. As an adolescent in school, I witnessed firsthand the petrifying experience of sleep paralysis. For some, sleep paralysis never occurred in their lives, while others only experience it once. I had this unpleasable sensation for about three years of my life and I would not wish that on anyone.

I was a sophomore in High School in New Haven , Michigan when In school I decided to walk home and skip school, my house was empty at the time so I decided to go into my room and take a nap and that’s when it happened for the very first time. I had awakened and I felt this heavy weight on my body and another feeling that I can only describe as if someone is lying on top of me, forcing me down (hence holding my whole body down) holding my lips and eyelids shut. I could hear though. This lasted for about 10 seconds. During these 10 seconds all sorts of thoughts started running through my mind questioning the reality of this phenomenon and even extended to states where I