Dreams & Nightmares: Research
Dreams- Dreaming makes different parts of the brain activate to create “thought of” images or scenes. Dreaming is a chemical release in the brain that occurs during sleep. Dreaming is essentially the most unexplainable event occurring in humans. There is different types of dreams yet all of them are unexplainable.
Nightmares- Nightmares are not a commonly known subject as they are quite unexplainable. There is not much out there except for mostly just theories. Some are that it is a tap into your psyche and reveal some of that person's dark fears, or that your nightmares are straight from your brain and uses the things that you fear. Some just say it’s just like a scary dream like a horror movie and it just happened unexplainably just like normal dreams. Then a lot of scientist say that dreams and nightmare are representations of your unconscious mind, and that it is your brain solving problems or dealing with stress, fear and anxiety.
One thing to note is that when you are having a nightmare your body is paralyzed cause you know your sleeping and all of the tossing and squirming in movies is wrong. The moment you scream or sit up you are already exiting the dream state. That is why you usually remember nightmares better than dreams because you wake up right out of the dream like your being ripped back to reality.
Elements- The different elements of your dreams whether its plot, things, events, they are all derived from emotion. The chemical release in your brain sends messages to your hipPocampus like an input, output system. The hippocampus than creates emotions that turn into images. For example, if you are very worried about something you might have a dream of a horrific event.
People/ Places- They say the people you see in your dreams are all images that portray the way you think of yourself. However this can not be proven, I believe that the people we see in our dreams are all seeing you in their own dreams as well even if you do not know who they are.
Sources:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/nightmares
https://www.elitedaily.com/life/marry-person-youre-dreaming/755196
http://psycnet.apa.org/buy/1997-38867-005
Nightmares- Nightmares are not a commonly known subject as they are quite unexplainable. There is not much out there except for mostly just theories. Some are that it is a tap into your psyche and reveal some of that person's dark fears, or that your nightmares are straight from your brain and uses the things that you fear. Some just say it’s just like a scary dream like a horror movie and it just happened unexplainably just like normal dreams. Then a lot of scientist say that dreams and nightmare are representations of your unconscious mind, and that it is your brain solving problems or dealing with stress, fear and anxiety.
One thing to note is that when you are having a nightmare your body is paralyzed cause you know your sleeping and all of the tossing and squirming in movies is wrong. The moment you scream or sit up you are already exiting the dream state. That is why you usually remember nightmares better than dreams because you wake up right out of the dream like your being ripped back to reality.
Elements- The different elements of your dreams whether its plot, things, events, they are all derived from emotion. The chemical release in your brain sends messages to your hipPocampus like an input, output system. The hippocampus than creates emotions that turn into images. For example, if you are very worried about something you might have a dream of a horrific event.
People/ Places- They say the people you see in your dreams are all images that portray the way you think of yourself. However this can not be proven, I believe that the people we see in our dreams are all seeing you in their own dreams as well even if you do not know who they are.
Sources:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/nightmares
https://www.elitedaily.com/life/marry-person-youre-dreaming/755196
http://psycnet.apa.org/buy/1997-38867-005
DREAMS & NIGHTMARES: fINAL pRODUCT
This is a poem I wrote about a nightmare I have. I chose to make this my final product because dreams and nightmares effect circadian rhythms greatly.
Black and White
Euphoric connections to the spirits projected,
For I see their faint chemicals are all unprotected
Purple green black and white,
I'll see the secrets held beyond tonight
I sleep and I see the truths left behind,
When the dark enters they all turn unkind,
When the scream man does lurk,
The colors all leave and my skin starts to hurt
I’m burning im burning the faces stopped turning,
Sitting and watching reality stirring
I can not get stuck in this OBE dimension
The nature knows but the gods forgot to mention,
He laughs at my humanity
Mocking what we all call sanity
I’m caught in a vortex that’s opening an apex
Can not wake up this one is too complex
My love is a goner
my heart starts to wonder
Dead trees surrounding my bliss is straight pounding
State of a nightmares how my words have been sounding
Kiss me in this world we’ll always be drowning
It is constant want but the feelings astounding
Vast constellations create our frustration
Pick up my stars for pure aggravation
Until we wake up we’ll live in tonight,
Black turns to white and we'll wake up to light,
Adrenaline gushing keeps the spirits blushing
Imperfections are back now realities crushing
What we just saw you don’t want to know,
Feel it through thunder and flowers ablow
Don't slip back under it’s not all so nice,
The scream man still lurks in the blacks and the whites
Euphoric connections to the spirits projected,
For I see their faint chemicals are all unprotected
Purple green black and white,
I'll see the secrets held beyond tonight
I sleep and I see the truths left behind,
When the dark enters they all turn unkind,
When the scream man does lurk,
The colors all leave and my skin starts to hurt
I’m burning im burning the faces stopped turning,
Sitting and watching reality stirring
I can not get stuck in this OBE dimension
The nature knows but the gods forgot to mention,
He laughs at my humanity
Mocking what we all call sanity
I’m caught in a vortex that’s opening an apex
Can not wake up this one is too complex
My love is a goner
my heart starts to wonder
Dead trees surrounding my bliss is straight pounding
State of a nightmares how my words have been sounding
Kiss me in this world we’ll always be drowning
It is constant want but the feelings astounding
Vast constellations create our frustration
Pick up my stars for pure aggravation
Until we wake up we’ll live in tonight,
Black turns to white and we'll wake up to light,
Adrenaline gushing keeps the spirits blushing
Imperfections are back now realities crushing
What we just saw you don’t want to know,
Feel it through thunder and flowers ablow
Don't slip back under it’s not all so nice,
The scream man still lurks in the blacks and the whites