In the World of Dreams

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The science behind dreams can be used to find out the different types of dreams and how different age groups dream along with how different genders dream. Different types of dreams consist of day dreams, nightmares, lucid dreams, normal dreams, etc. Men and women both dream differently in a sense to what they dream about. Adults and children tend to dream differently also. There are different types of dreams. There are nightmares and day dreams. Day dreams are technically not dreams because it is just when someone is awake and just fantasizing. A nightmare or night terror on the other hand is when someone is experiencing feelings of great terror and intense fear in a dream. In fact a lot of people day dream on a regular basis, “studies indicate that as many as 96% of adults engage in having at least one bout of daily fantasies” (Whitbourne 1). Sometimes bad dreams are scary enough to jolt the person awake. Just about everyone can have nightmares or night terrors. People who suffer from PTSD can suffer from night terrors. Traumatic events are often dealt with dreams through people. If an adult had had a troubled childhood their nightmares would more likely be about that. “Roughly 25 percent of children ages 5 to 12 report being awakened by bad dreams at least once a week.” (Angier 1). Night terrors are a little different. When you have night terrors you are usually screaming and thrashing around and it is usually hard to wake the person up. When people know they are dreaming that is called lucid dreaming. They are sometimes able to steer their dream in a certain direction. If you can control it, it is lucid. People can do pretty much whatever they want to do in a dream with practice. “Dreams that mimic the real life trauma indic... ... middle of paper ... ...about what researchers have studied in order to want the reader to know the science behind dreaming. The brain during the dream process is different than the brain of someone who is awake. “Sigmund Freud theorized that dreams were the expression of unconsciousness desires often stemming from childhood.” (Kantrowitz 2). When people dream, pain can also show up. Someone’s mood can be affected by their dreams. Whatever the feelings of one’s dreams can reflect how they feel throughout the day. “A dream is an intermediary product of the thinking process. It is a phenomenon occurring at the threshold of consciousness in the process of awakening of falling asleep. It appears when the lights of consciousness are dimmed or when they are in the process of flickering up and it is characteristic of this state of mind.” (Gutheil 17).

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