Dreams
In a normal life a average person sleeps for about twenty years. But why do we sleep? We don’t know. We need more sleep when we’re young. A baby sleeps for about ten hours a day. A teenager sleeps for about eight hours and adults – need about seven hours per day.
We can divide dream into two parts. When you go to sleep you go into DEEP SLEEP. The body temperature falls, and our body relaxes and heart beats slower, we breathe slowly. We loose consciousness, awareness. The other name for DEEP SLEEP is NREM (No Rapid Eyes Movement). After about half an hour you go into ACTIVE part of dram because the eyes move (that’s the main difference between NREM and REM dream).
We dream in both deep sleep and REM sleep but in the active sleep we dream on pictures. The dreams are very important to our mental health. Our dreams can reflect our hopes, anxieties, worries and desires but it’s not always easy to interpret them. Some of our dreams are prophetic and can carry important massages. There are people, who claim that they understand their dreams because each dream has it’s own meaning if we figure it out it can be very useful. There is a lot of superstitions connected with dreams. But I don’t believe in it and to tell the truth I don’t have a big knowledge about it so I won’t give any examples.
If some wakes up in REM sleep he can usually remember the dream. (I think that’s quite logical, I keep in my mind only nightmares, because if we had a nightmare it’s more possible that we would wake up suddenly and for that reason we could remember the dream).
Some people sleepwalk in deep sleep and sleepwalkers do amazing things. They open the windows, they can even take a bath. Sleepwalkers are asleep but they have their eyes open and can see. When they wake up they can’t remember anything.
I usually don’t remember my dreams and it’s quite normal. I remember only a few dreams – only nightmares. First from my childhood. I was dreaming that I’m in room full of toys. And it was great. I was there alone – whole toys were mine. I was playing. Suddenly the toys changed into the snakes. Then I woke up, but I couldn’t fall asleep.
Before important test or exams I usually dream about that test and exams. I don’t mean that I try to predict questions or sth like that, but I can see myself writing something and in the most cases I have a problems with questions, I don’t’ have enough time. Fortunately in the most cases that dreams are not prophetic.
Before Matura exam I had had a dream that I forgot to take crib sheets – I had such dream twice – and what’s funny I forgot to take them on real exam (fortunately I had realized about that don’t have my crib sheets and I called my brother, who brought me them).
I don’ t know why but I hadn’t any dream any nightmare before English Matura exam. But I think that it was rather good sing.
To sum it up. Dreams are something essential. Our brain needs it (I don’t know biological profs). We can divide drams into few categories (NREM and REM, nightmares and normal dreams).
Helaa