Healing From Our Dreams

By Sara Kobayashi

Have you ever

wondered why we

dream at night?

Many types of dreams

At least 1 significant person, object or an event

Dreams also tells us what we think or feel about certain

issues in our life.

Without dreams, we can become insane, and will not be able to treat ourselves from the problems we encounter everyday.

ProblemOnly has a small amount of research

Therapists feel unprepared

Weird because we sleep and dream for more than 1/3 of our lives

It wasn’t until 2,000 years later when scientists started to research psychology,

that the research on dreams started to gain more popularity.

Brief History

Freud- neurologists, psychologist•Dreams were our minds in a chaotic state, showing random images which forms into a new idea.Jung- psychologist•Dreams were a way of communicating with the unconscious mind

Some important people

Dreams do serve as a healing session which the mind produces while we sleep

More stress with less dreams

Right Now…

“Sometimes when you remember your dreams, it’s because you’re ready

to deal with it.” –Cindy Sauln

When we dream: brain activity

2 main stagesREM

NREM

REM- Rapid Eye Movement

Dreams are more of a storybook type.

Most important stage. Less REM= More stress

NREM (Non Rapid Eye Movement)

75% of our sleep cycle

Vivid dreams and is comprised of many colors and abstract shapes

Sleep walking, sleep talking, sleep terror, and nocturnal leg cramps occur.

The amount of time we spend in the REM stage decreases as we grow

older, reducing the time we dream that serve as therapy.

Infants spend 8 hours awake and

when they are asleep, 8 hours in REM

stage, 8 hours in NREM stage.

Children 2-6 year old spend 12 hours

awake, only 3-4 hours of REM sleep,

and 7-8 hours of NREM sleep

Children from 7-16 year old spend 14-16 hours awake, only 2 hours of REM

sleep, and 6-8 hours of NREM sleep.

As we grow older, we continue with less REM stage and less sleep overall.

Adults only sleep on average, 8 hours

a night, 20% of which is REM sleep.

We dream in order to give ourselves time to relax and de-stress and to confront our emotions by entering

therapy sessions given by our brain.