How+Dreams+Work

How Dreams Work When you dream, a lot of things are going on in your brain. Dreaming is complicated and to this day, scientists aren't completely sure of how dreams work. When you are dreaming, your brain is actually very active  and dreaming allows you to access many parts of  your brain that you can't usually use when you are awake.  The most common time for you to dream is during REM, or  rapid eye movement, sleep. During REM sleep, there are  several parts of the brain that are active, including those that  control Motivation, Emotion, Memory Formation, Arousal,  <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;">Complex Visual Processing, and Attention. Since these are usually the only parts of our that we use, not everyone dreams. For <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;">example, at a hospital in London, patients with brain damage to the part of the brain that creates spatial-imagerysaid they no <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;">longer dreamed. They also claimed to no longer love life and have motivation.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">During dreams, you have no actual sense of time, so dreams usually seem much

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">longer than they actually are. Depending on the person and the dream, dreams can

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">last for as long as 20 minutes, or as short as several seconds. People also may

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">have up to 7 dreams in one night but sometimes you can't even remember them!

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Sometimes, you can easily remember dreams but other times, you completely forget them. In fact, almost 95%

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">of dreams are forgotten. You also may not be able to remember exactly what happened in your dream, but you

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">will have vague images of you things that took place in your dream. Studies show that women can more easily

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">recall dreams them men can. Also, dreams are more likely to be remembered if you wake up during them.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">When we dream, the chemicals in our brain change so that we are usually not able to recall them. Basically, our

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">brains are not made to remember what we have dreamt!

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;">Ever had a dream where you experience all five senses? <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;">Well, this is actually pretty uncommon.What you can feel, <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;">see taste and hear in dreams really varies. Most dreams are <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;">entirely visual, then the next most common is sound, and it is <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;">even less likely to experience taste and scents. Also, we sometimes experience emotions in <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;">dreams such as frustration or anxiety. Most of this is just like why we can't remember our <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;">dreams, the chemicals in our brain change and we are only meant to be using <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;">certain parts of our brain when we sleep.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Home Page <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Why We Dream <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Kinds of Dreams <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dream Quiz <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dreams Bibliography

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