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Healing From Our Dreams
By Sara Kobayashi
Have you ever
wondered why we
dream at night?
Many types of dreams
At least 1 significant person, object or an event
Dreams also tells us what we think or feel about certain
issues in our life.
Without dreams, we can become insane, and will not be able to treat ourselves from the problems we encounter everyday.
ProblemOnly has a small amount of research
Therapists feel unprepared
Weird because we sleep and dream for more than 1/3 of our lives
It wasn’t until 2,000 years later when scientists started to research psychology,
that the research on dreams started to gain more popularity.
Brief History
Freud- neurologists, psychologist•Dreams were our minds in a chaotic state, showing random images which forms into a new idea.Jung- psychologist•Dreams were a way of communicating with the unconscious mind
Some important people
Dreams do serve as a healing session which the mind produces while we sleep
More stress with less dreams
Right Now…
“Sometimes when you remember your dreams, it’s because you’re ready
to deal with it.” –Cindy Sauln
When we dream: brain activity
2 main stagesREM
NREM
REM- Rapid Eye Movement
Dreams are more of a storybook type.
Most important stage. Less REM= More stress
NREM (Non Rapid Eye Movement)
75% of our sleep cycle
Vivid dreams and is comprised of many colors and abstract shapes
Sleep walking, sleep talking, sleep terror, and nocturnal leg cramps occur.
The amount of time we spend in the REM stage decreases as we grow
older, reducing the time we dream that serve as therapy.
Infants spend 8 hours awake and
when they are asleep, 8 hours in REM
stage, 8 hours in NREM stage.
Children 2-6 year old spend 12 hours
awake, only 3-4 hours of REM sleep,
and 7-8 hours of NREM sleep
Children from 7-16 year old spend 14-16 hours awake, only 2 hours of REM
sleep, and 6-8 hours of NREM sleep.
As we grow older, we continue with less REM stage and less sleep overall.
Adults only sleep on average, 8 hours
a night, 20% of which is REM sleep.
We dream in order to give ourselves time to relax and de-stress and to confront our emotions by entering
therapy sessions given by our brain.