Types Of Dreams And Effects On Your Health

There are five different stages of sleep: stages one through four and then REM. The first stage of sleep is simply the transition from consciousness to unconsciousness.

The first stage of sleep is often disregarded as not sleeping at all, and this is the time when people start day dreaming. Day dreams too are often disregarded in studies of dreams.

The brain is constantly trying to improve itself, though sometimes the dreams are trying to develop character skills and other time they are just working in an absurd and pointless way. After stage one sleep your mind is set into over drive, where all the images from the day are fired from the back of your mind to the prefrontal cortex.

This allows dreams to seem like they can last an entire day, when really you have been sleeping for less than five minutes. These dreams usually hold no significance other than they are strengthening specific memories in the brain.

After stage two sleep the body is paralyzed and the mind shuts off while you enter stages three and four. These stages of sleep are so deep that there is no dreaming and no consciousness at all, this usually creates the feeling of loss of time.

When put under anesthesia you will wake up only to feel like you hadn't gone anywhere at all, because you were so deeply sedated. This is very similar to stages three and four of sleep.

The body starts moving back to stage one, once it hits one it starts teetering on the edge of consciousness, in regards to brain wave activity. The mind is actually functioning at a conscious level when you are experiencing REM dreams, which makes them so vivid.

These are the dreams where you will reveal the true ambitions and desires of your soul to your-self. REM dreams are housed in the amygdala, the portion of the brain that is responsible for the fight or flight instinct.

Scientist believe that these dreams are actually conditioning your to respond to real life situations through metaphors in the mind. Many people have dreams of monsters when they are young; this is thought to be an inherent trait passed through ancestors.

As you age your dreams become more realistic based, perhaps you are in a position where you are in trouble at work, or you have lost your wallet, or you missed the bus. The vivid dreams that make an impact usually mean something to you, whether you realize it or not.

Try to understand your dreams, and by doing so this could be a very helpful to for therapeutic introspection. Become one with yourself and start recording your dreams, doing this will help you to remember them too.