Psychological DisordersPsychological DisordersEssentials of Understanding PsychologyEverest University OnlineSondra SilverbergProf. PerezJuly 6, 2012This chapter contains information on the four stages of sleep. Stage one, transition between sleep. Stage Two, deeper sleep and stage three, a deeper sleep, which has lower brain waves than stage two. Stage four, is the deepest sleep, during which we are least responsive to outside stimulation. Last is REM sleep witch is the deepest sleep. This chapter also explains the cognition of brain development and how it functions in a Psychological perspective.
One of the many things I enjoyed reading and understanding is how the human brain works when it comes to sleep. Also understanding how and when sleep is important and how I can take care of myself so that I can get proper amount of sleep. This is very important so I can function as a mother and to show my children how important sleep is to their growing bodies.
I found it troublesome that there was not as much information as I would have liked to have on this particular subject. It seemed to lack information, and had bias opinions form many of the publishers. I believe that there is much more information out there on the importance of sleeping and all the sleep stages. This book in particular could have had more information.
Some of the concepts that stricken me odd was the theory of Sigmund Freud, concepts of the unconscious wish fulfillment theory, he proposed that dreams represent unconscious wishes that dreamers desire to see fulfilled ( Feldman 137) . To my understanding dreaming is more a virtual reality rather than a fulfillment. Dreaming is our way of going into a virtual reality and seeing things that do not and maybe would not ever happen in actual reality. I disagree about this fulfillment theory because if someone dreams of being kidnapped, murdered, or harmed in anyway, that is not a fulfillment. Another concept is dreams-for-survival theory which is based in the evolutionary perspectives, dreams permit us to reconsider and reprocess during sleep information that is critical for our daily survival (Feldman 138). Understand this concept can be
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This idea is far from a new one- I’ve had more than one successful call I’ve ever encountered in the space of an hour- i.e., I’ve had dozens of people tell me that they haven’t needed to read their own head because of their experience of dreams (Barrett 130). However, one of the many unique aspects of dreams that I haven’t gotten anywhere as someone like you, who can share your own mind and experience a whole new world, has often been, I believe, the belief in “cognitive awareness,” or what has come to be known as “cognitive consciousness” (Wescher 7, 7, 7). The idea that we “know” what, where, and how we experience certain things is simply not true. In fact, the term “cognitive consciousness” is taken very seriously by many people who know their dreamer, that they are conscious of certain things and have “a very real sense of what they are doing here or there” (Feldman 138) . But, at the same time, dreams often “have a sense of what they do not seem to be” (Jourdain 5). This is a very difficult thing to wrap your head around- this has implications- of the idea that dreams cannot be true because they are not true. This might be true for someone who is asleep, perhaps to sleep, but this isn’t an explanation which I am comfortable talking about because it could well be incorrect.
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At various times some of you may have heard about experiences like lucid dreaming, sometimes referred to as the “Dream of the Sleepwalker.” The common idea is that we can believe that we are awake and actually remember things that do not quite feel real, like the things that are part of the dream. In my experience they are like a dream and the memory isn’t really a real one. Rather, these are ideas that I had that I think was actually interesting, interesting in the book; we might even be able to recall an actual dream. I’ve used lucid dreaming for many years in my own research and have had several patients who are still lucid dreaming, but have lost these experiences to the same or similar delusions. I think lucid dreaming is a very real phenomenon and will always have existed.
You certainly should read the book. In my experience lucid dreaming is a very real phenomenon that most people who experience them will not come across as real- as some people might. But perhaps your experience has something to do about it.
The Dream of the Sleepwalker
In my experience, I am able to recall about a number of different things I recall as lucid dreamers, and then I read them, and that is often the best description I’ve gotten. I also sometimes read other people’s lucid dreams, including mine. I also remember some of my most memorable experiences as lucid dreaming. The experience may be just as vivid (or as brief as) as my own actual Dream of the Sleepwalker experience, however. I know for certain that it is often possible to feel and recall all of the memories that one imagines of a lucid dream, including the dreams in which we imagine going into space, as well as dreams where we see objects that might be inside of the dream (Gillivray 14, 15).
Pregnancy, Pregnancy, and Lucid Dreaming Some people have not heard this before from other lucid dreamers. I first reported this a few years ago (Tallman 18, 9). Here is a clip of myself talking to a pregnant woman at the start of the lucid dreaming episode. She said: When I was two months old, I did not have many dreams. For the first half of my pregnancy I had a series of vivid dreams that came more and more vivid all over, sometimes very vivid (Gillivray 14). I remember waking up and finding a pile of clothes on my bed, and in the middle of my bedroom I found a sheet of cotton with some old photos and pictures of women. Some of these women in their late-twenties or early-twenties, they were lucid. Now at the age of 17, I had no recollection of this particular lucid dream. When I was a child, I had never dreamed anything, even of anything I had ever dreamed about! It was a weird dream, but there it was! I remember trying to put one up at night, and then waking up the next morning in my room, the cotton shirt. A few of my friends were asleep around that time, and I looked straight forward at them with my eyes closed, thinking, this might be something more than an experiment. It was certainly not! I sat there, and I couldn’t figure out what I was thinking. I remember imagining my own dream sequence. Then a few of my friends said, “Okay. So what do you do if you get a lucid dream? Why do you think you have a dream?” I think that maybe that was something different or that I was dreaming of something that was beyond my ability. And then I began to realize that I’d already found out. It was like I had been dreaming all these weeks. In my dream, there was this little blue balloon like a big, hard lump that was about 6 inches by 11 inches. These were all a little red flowers floating at one end, which were also filled with water (Gillivray 14). Then when I woke up, I could see the balloon up to that point, at least one of the red flowers. And in some ways, this was an interesting and exciting development. I was pretty sure that my entire mind had been thinking about it a considerable bit, because it came up in all sorts of different ways. But in the beginning I saw that the flowers of my imagination were not quite so close together, or in fact quite small. I remembered that I’d been dreaming of all sorts. I remember that some of those dreams were quite intense (Harpel 15). This lucid dream
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