Slumbered Sleep

SLUMBERED DREAMS
4.2 UNDERSTANDING
DREAMS
Dreams are visions, ideas, or emotions that surface while
you’re sleeping. Although dreams frequently feature visual
imagery, they can also incorporate other senses. People
who are blind typically have more elements in their
dreams related to sound, taste, and smell. Some people
dream in color, while others dream in black and white.
WHAT ARE
DREAMS?
There are several theories for the purpose of dreams. They include,
memory retention, emotion processing, mental upkeep,
replays, and random brain activity. Dreams last for two hours
on average each night. Any stage of sleep can induce dreams,
the REM stage is when dreams are most frequent and powerful.
Brain activity increases significantly during the REM sleep
stage versus the non-REM phases, which helps to explain the
different forms of dreaming that occur during various stages.
Even while they may contain elements of everyday life, REM
sleep dreams are often more vivid, fanciful, and/or weird. Non-
REM dreams, in comparison, frequently have much more logical
content that includes ideas or memories that are related
to a particular place and time. Because the bulk of REM sleep
occurs in the second period of a typical sleep cycle, dreaming
is more likely to occur in the hours just before waking up. (Sunni,
2022)
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