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# Dreams are thoughts, emotions and the images shaped by us, which are encountered when we are asleep.

# Research shows that during an average lifespan, a human being spends about six years in dreaming which is around two hours every night.

# It was a dream, that revealed to a scientist the

molecular structure of carbon atoms in the benzene ring.

What are the dreams?

# Various theories on dreams interpretations exist but the real purpose of dreams is still unknown. Dreams are closely associated with the human psychology.

# Some persons believe that dreams have certain fixed meanings. “If you dream about oranges, it means good health; if you dream about onions, it means hard work,” and so on. You can even buy “dictionaries” of dream interpretation.

# Sigmund Freud once called dreams the “royal road to . . . the unconscious,”

# Freud believed every dream is a wish fulfillment, He had said that bad dreams allow the brain to gain control over the feelings that are a result of distressful experiences.

# this idea of a “secret” wish being masked by a dream remains central to classical Freudian psychoanalysis.

# Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist suggested that dreams compensate for one-sided feelings borne in consciousness.

# Some theories say that dreams involve one's repressed emotions that are fantasized during the sleep while other theories suggest dreams to be an outcome of the cleaning-up operations of the brain.

# According to the theory of emotional selection by Richard Coutts, dreaming is a way to modify one's mental schema.

# Then there are modern scientists who claim that dreams are nothing more than images resulting from randomelectrical activity in the brain as it“housecleans” itself during the night.

# Yet, in spite of modern science, dreams still remain mysterious.

# Dream psychology believes that the elements of the dreams are closely related to the environment and the experiences one is exposed to.

# To use dream material clinically—that is, in

psychotherapy.

# All you can do is put the dream into words in an imperfect attempt to describe what you experienced. So, in the end, to talk about the dream you really talk about the text of your perception of the dream.

significance of the content of dreams?

# The clinical work of dream interpretation, therefore, involves three things.

>> First, you need a written text of the dream.

>> Second, you have to understand your psychological associations to the various dream images. These associations must come from your personal life, not from a “dictionary” of fixed meanings.>> Third, you have to discover the links between all these association

#When we fall asleep, we effectively go into hibernation mode, adrenaline in our body decreases and, somatotrophin Controlling the repair of tissue increases. Thus healing process of sleep revitalises us.

Sleep and Dreams - Neurology

# The synaptic nerve connections containing recollections about the last day are also strengthened, This localised area of memory is what many of our dreams consist of, our past recollections of the day our conscious thought about it accesses that part of the brain thus 'remembers' it at night.

What Causes Dreams?

REM>> REM stands for rapid eye movement and is the points in time during sleep where dreams occur. They occur after periods of deep sleep. >> The most vivid and deepest dreams will occur in the periods between REM while drowsy, almost conscious dreams occur in the REM stages.

# In a pagan world of myth and blood sacrifice, the Nightmare was a cruel, fearful creature.

# And in today’s world, when we speak of a nightmare we mean a frightening dream accompanied by a sensation of oppression and helplessness.

Traumatic Nightmares

# In psychodynamic terms nightmares are graphic depictions of raw, primitive emotions such as aggression and rage that have not been incorporated into the conscious psyche.

# Thus we tend to encounter these “ugly” aspects of our unconscious lives as terrifying dream images in whose presence we feel completely helpless

# Nightmares are quite common in childhood because this is a time of our emotional development.

# Traumatic nightmares can also occur as one of the many symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

# Therefore, traumatic nightmares need to be treated differently than other dreams. # systematic desensitization is an effective way to “sow the seeds” of new ways of thinking and acts as a multidimensional treatment for PTSD.

>> Dreams Telling the Future!!

>> Blind people can dream as well!!

>> It’s easy to forget your dreams!!

>> Dreams prevent psychosis!!

>>Animals have dreams too!!

Amazing Facts About Dreams!!!!!

>> A large percentage of people see the same dream over and over again - the same situation and the same episodes!!!

>> Creative overflows during their dreams !!

>> Depending on the experience and perception of colors we fill colors in our dreams!! >> People who quit smoking have more vivid dreams!!

>> Dreams are symbolic and do not usually call a brick a brick!!

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