Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Full of Dreams


Our life is full of dreams, sweet dream horror dream lucid dream and different types of dreams. All of us have various experiences about dreams. Whether it is good or bad we like see dreams and always try to remember those after awakening.

Solutions in Dream


Dreams are wonderful phenomenon. We do not know whether imagination, reason and judgment are active or not during our dreams. But it is found that problems in mathematics have been solved, legal decisions given and even sermons have been produced during sleep.
Even many people have also got medicine of critical diseases in their dream. Just like the medicine of asthma has been got by a very pious women in her dream. Many peoples’ severe asthma problem has got cured with her medicine. She has died but still people are taking the medicine, but now from her daughter as she had handed it over to her daughter as her heir, before dieing.

Internal or external causes


The origin of dream may be traced to internal or external causes of frightful dreams. An over-worked brain will give rise to a number of rapid dreams. When the brain is depressed the result is usually a series of depressing and horrible dreams. In other cases a dream originates in something that the dreamer saw or was thinking about just before sleep came upon him.

Imagination gains control over reason


Our imagination gains in some cases such complete control over our reason that we can contemplate all such contradictions to our ordinary experience without the least feeling of wonder. But this is not always the case. Sometimes dreamers do have a feeling of wonder at their strange experiences. Sometimes they begin to weep or shudder while they see strange things in dreams. It often happens that good men in their dreams seem to do without the slightest compunction horribly wicked deeds.

Dream or hallucinatory images


Dream consciousness is similar to that of a hallucinating awake subject. Dream or hallucinatory images triggered by the brain stem are considered to be real, even if fantastic. The impulse to accept the evident is so strong the dreamer will often invent a memory or story to cover up an incongruous or unrealistic event in the dream. “That man has two heads!” is usually followed not with “I must be dreaming!” but with “Yes, I read in the paper about these famous Siamese twins.” Or other times there will be an explanation that, in the dream, makes sense and seems very logical, but when the dreamer awakes, he/she will realize that it is rather far fetched or even complete gibberish.

Rarity


During most dreams, sleepers are not aware that they are dreaming. The reason why this is the case has not been discovered, and does not appear to have an obvious answer. There have been attempts by various fields of psychology to provide an explanation. For example, some proponents of Depth psychology suggest that mental processes inhibit the critical evaluation of reality within dreams.
Physiology suggests that “seeing is believing” to the brain during any mental state. This being said, if the brain actually believes something so much, it will actually believe that it is real. Even waking consciousness is liable to accept discontinuous or illogical experience as real if presented as such to the brain.

Altered state of consciousness


Experiences such as walking through walls are likely to induce an altered state of consciousness in either lucid dream. Both lucid dreams can provide access to a wider variety of experience (i.e., psychic, spiritual experience) than is normally available in waking life. Such experience is sought in lucid dreams through the practice of dream yoga.

Sleep paralysis


During REM sleep the body paralyses itself as a protection mechanism in order to prevent the movements which occur in the dream from causing the physical body to move. However, it is possible for this mechanism to be triggered before, during, or after normal sleep while the brain awakens. This can lead to a state where a person is lying in his or her bed and they feel paralyzed. Hypnologic hallucination may occur in this state, especially auditory ones. Effects of sleep paralysis include heaviness or inability to move the muscles, rushing or pulsating noises, and brief hypnologic imagery.

False awakening


In a false awakening, one suddenly dreams of having been awakened. Commonly in a false awakening, the room is similar to the room in which the person fell asleep. If the person was lucid, they often believe that they are no longer dreaming and may start exiting the room and start going through a daily routine. This can be a nemesis in the art of lucid dreaming, because it usually causes people to give up their awareness of being in a dream, but it can also cause someone to become lucid if the person does a reality check whenever he/she awakens. People who keep a dream journal and write down their dreams upon awakening sometimes report having to write down the same dream multiple times because of this phenomenon. It has also been known to cause bed wetting as one may dream that they have awoken to go to the lavatory, but in reality are still dreaming.

Rapid eye movement (REM)


When a person is dreaming, the eyes move rapidly up and down and vibrate. Scientific research has found that these eye movements correspond to the direction in which the dreamer is "looking" in his/her dreamscape; this has enabled trained lucid dreamers to communicate whilst dreaming to researchers by using eye movement signals.