Abnormal Psychology: The Five Types Of Sleep

There are five main types of dreams - daydreams, normal dreams, false awakenings, nightmares and lucid dreams. A lot happens when one is sleeping. While sleeping there are five sleep stages a body has to go through before it gets to the final stage. The first stage is a very light sleep that you can be easily waking from. Stage two is a slight deeper sleep than one. Stages three and four represents our deepest stages of sleep. Our brain activity slows down in these two stages. About 90 minutes after we are asleep we begin REM sleep. (Rapid eye movement) REM was discovered in 1953 by University of Chicago.

People tend to forget things that happened just minutes before they fell asleep this is completely normal this form of sleeping is

called amnesia. This sleep-related form of amnesia is the reason people often forget telephone calls or conversations they've had in the middle of the night. This explains why we do not remember our alarms ringing in the morning if we go right back to sleep after turning them off.
How Much Sleep a person really needs is different for each age group and factors. Infants/New born babies generally require about 16 hours out of the day to sleep, while on the other hand teenagers need about 9 hours out of their daily schedule to sleep. For adults depending on the individual, 7 to 8 hours of sleep seems to be the best amount of sleep. When a woman is pregnant she often eats more sleep than the average person. The amount of sleep a person needs also increases if he or she has not been getting the right amount of sleep in the previous days. “Sleep debt," develops when a person gets little sleep an example of this is like being overdrawn at a bank. Eventually, your body will cannot take no more and will demand that the debt be repaid. Our body does not seem to function probably getting less sleep getting a little sleep affects our daily life such as schedule, our judgment, reaction time, and other functions are still impaired.
Dreaming is a unique and symbolic language designed to communicate with your inner body while you are asleep. The subconscious part of you that processes dreams sends symbols, messages and images which is then turned into conveys ideas or situations in a visual matter and sometimes reflect your inner feelings in thoughts . Even stress plays a role in your dreams. By displaying significant symbols and issues relating to your waking life, your dreams are trying to establish relevance as an effort to cope with your inner turmoil.

Psychiatry professor Ernest Hartmann, M.D. suggests that dreams are directed by particular emotions, like stress and worry. Varying emotions cause new material to be constantly "weaved" into the memory of the dreamer in ways that help him or her cope with stress, trauma and other types of psychological anxiety.
Not remember your training is not a bad thing the winter it is people do not remember their dreams. Many people acts the same question why are our dreams so difficult to remember? According to one particular theory, the changes that occur in the brain while one is sleeping does not support enough information storage and processing needed for memory formation to take place. While an individual is sleeping research shows that the frontal lobes are not active this area plays a key role in memory information.
The average person has about 3 to 5 dreams per night, but some may
Have up to 7 dreams in one night. The dreams tend to last longer as the
Night progresses. During a full 8-hour night sleep, two hours of it is spent
Dreaming.
Believe it or not daydreaming is another way to dream. Scientific studies reveal that most people daydream on an average to 70-120 minutes per day. During this time, the body is only partially asleep, but not fully checked-in with reality, either. It starts with a compelling thought, memory, or fantasy about the future, and your imagination runs away. The longer you daydream, the deeper you becomes immersed in your private fantasy land. As with all types of dreams, you enter a kind of hypnotic trance and allow your unconscious thoughts to rise to the surface.
While daydreams, the right side of the brain is dominant and you lose awareness of reality. In the meantime deeper worries or concerns will surface, usually by acting themselves out in the daydream.

When one is having a nightmares, you don't know you're dreaming which means the unconscious part of your mind takes everything on board as if it were really happening.

Some nightmares can be so real that the sensory system is triggered and you can feel certain types of pain. It can be very unnerving.

False awakening is a vivid and convincing dream about awakening from sleep you feel as if you are awake but you are not. After a false awakening, subjects often dream they are performing everyday activity such as eating, walking, using the bathroom are even having a conversation with someone.

Lucid dreaming is awareness that you are dreaming. This awareness can range from very faint recognition of the fact to something as momentous as a broadening of awareness beyond what has ever been experienced even in waking life. Lucid dreams usually occur while a person is in the middle of a regular dream and suddenly realizes that they are dreaming. This is called a dream-initiated lucid dream. A wake-initiated lucid dream occurs when you go from a normal waking state directly into a dream state, with no apparent lapse in consciousness. Once you realize this, you have the ability to control your dreams, which is pretty much the most essential part of lucid

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