Overtime people have progressed in what they believed about dreams. Leonidas Samouilides, M.D. states in her article, “Dreams affect our lives,” that dreams were first thought to be messages from god or another higher source like the Egyptians and Sumerians in The Old Testament by Homer. In the Middle Ages, dreams were thought of as witchcraft. Contemporary, scientific, and technological advances allow us to clearly define a dream as part of person’s nervous system interacting with his or her unconscious mind. In the norm of eight hours in which a human being sleeps, two hours are spent in the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, and the other six hours are non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep (NREM) (Hartman & Zimberoff, 2012).
A majority of one’s dreams occur during person’s REM sleep (Feldman, 2013). “The dreamer can be a simple passive observer, an active participant as well as possess a double role, an altered presence, or he/she can be embodied in other people or objects of the dream” (Hartman & Zimberoff, 2012). Dreams allow one’s creative side to unleash, allow practice time to improve performance while awake, figure out one’s actual desires, feelings, and/or motives, and provide intuition into ones physical health. Dreams are not just unconscious creative pictures of an individual’s imagination, but are rather series of thoughts that can affect one’s life physiologically and emotionally.
On occasions when a person dreams, his or her mind allows itself to wonder aimlessly to project an odd and unimaginable vision that one, on an average wakeful day, would never be able to visualize. On any night, one may dream they are swimming in a colossal-size pool of Jell-O, or that he or she can fly through outer space with a mere pair...
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accused of abusing their power. In the past three or four years, it seems that it has become more common that police have been at fault for killing or injuring people of various ages when attempting to detain them. Police brutality has a negative affect on all lives directly or indirectly through racial profiling, protests, and media. Being part of a minority group, one is subject to racial profiling which is when someone creates a stereotype of the person because of his or her race, ethnicity, or