Thursday, December 3, 2009 12/03/2009 08:45:00 PM
lesson 67-- Love Dreaming. They give you more than you want
I have been wondering about this dream issue thing for ages.. and i had been dreaming for the past few days.. checked the dream dictionary website (given in last post) for any hidden meaning.
Oh well.., check out 'house' and i got this, 'experience a short exciting love affair'. HOHO! Short! that's the sad part. haha
Ok, and today, the newspaper finally, as if had an some transmission from me, wrote on it. here it goes! *(got some excerpts only)
The Straits Times, Mind your Body December 3, 2009
"Dreamland Drama"
why we dream"Dreaming has no well understood function although there are several theories as to why we dream," said Dr. Lim LI Ling, who is a consultant neurologist and sleep physician at the Singapore Neurologist & Sleep Centre and president of Singaopre Sleep Society.
" For e.g., dreaming may be a time during which we sort through inofrmation we received throught the day; a process during which memor and learnign are consolidated."
Freud, saw dreams as wish-fulfilment and the result of repressed or frustrated sexual desire.
Another school of thought posits thatdreams are an evolutionary device. Finnish cog scientist Antti Revonsuo argued that wehn we dream, we make up 'fight-or-flight scenarios to rehearse our response.
Other theories assert that dreams reset the connections thae brain has made to help it work more efficiently or that dreams enable us to work through difficult emotions or issues.
Dreams and emotionsAsked why dreams feel so real, Dr pang,said: "
Dreams feel real as the brain plays out images and fragments of our lives and experiences in a vivid, clear way and they are entangled with emotional responses and reactions."The emotional part of the brain is stimulated as well, so it seems real. "
Dreams are often rooted in emotions or express sexual or violent tendencies as the
rational part of the forebrain, is switched off during REM sleep.Dr yeo said:" It is suggested that dreams are partly coded in the limbic system, which is the most
primitive part of the brain."
" The main function of our forebrain is to inhibit our primal urges. otherwise, we cannot fucntion or live in a society."
"Dreams are often violent of sexual because the forebrain has no control over them. "
If we wake up immediately after or during REM sleep, we tend to rmb our dreams as our noradrenaline and serotonin systems start firingup when we wake up.
Noradrenaline and adrenaline are responsible for our fight-or-flight response while
serotonin is involved in brain functions like control of appetite, sleep, memory and learning, temperature regulation, mood and sexual behaviour. These two neurotransmitters are required for recording memory.
One way to counter this loss is to reinforce the dream's memory is by thinking over it or writing them down.
nightmares and fears
Dr Kong said:"People deprived of REM sleep show deficits in their ability to handle emotions and to concentrate in their memory."
Dr Yeo said:"
REM sleep is very impt becos without it, we will become psychologically unstable."
Dreans and reality:
3. Dream Control
Dr Lim said: " Dreaming occurs during sleep, which is a transient state of unresponsiveness.
"There is no conscious act of will so a claim of being able to control one's dreams seems unlikely."
However, Dr Kong thinks it is possible. He said:"
in dreams, your mind revives what had gone one in the day. You can control dreaming in the sense that if you think a lot about something before you sleep, you may dream abt it."
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