The Origin Of Dreams Research Paper

How many of us have woken up and wondered what last night’s dream was all? Or how even trying to the source of a dream through dream interpretations but not knowing how to go about it? According to author, Dr. Milton Kramer, “Dreams are a theater of the emotions, where we play out the day’s dramas that were left ‘to be continued’” (58). Today I am going to tell you what dreams are, why they are important to our lives, and how we can interpret what they mean. The origin of dreams is something that can be defined in three ways, physically, scientifically, or theoretically depending on whom you talk to. In this case I chose to share the psychological point of view from the people who study all about it, psychologist. There is a major chemical in our brains that is called acetylcholine, which is the

In addition to this chemical our four different types of brain waves control our bodily transition to sleep. The four types of brain waves are beta, alpha, theta, and delta (Loff 1). Each wave starts out fasts the gradually slows down as one turns into another. This is when our five stages of sleep set in (Lohff 1). This first stage of sleep is the lightest and it lasts anywhere from thirty to forty minutes. As you progress into the second stage of sleep you are on the borderline of light sleep to deep sleep. Once you are in third and fourth stage you are in your deepest sleep and are about to progress backward through all the sleep stages again. After starting back at your first sleep stage you enter then REM sleep stage. REM sleep is called “Rapid Eye Movement” and is the time when you dream (Lohff 2). REM sleep is very important in sleeping according to David Lohff, author of “The Running Press Cyclopedia of Dreams”, who says, “If you do not have