Term Papers on Dreams

Term Paper Title	Dreams
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Dreams

Dreaming is a form of mental activity, different from waking thought, that occurs
during sleep. The nature of dream activity has been characterized by many
clinical and laboratory studies. These studies show that dreams are more
perceptual than conceptual: Things are seen and heard rather than thought. In
terms of the senses, visual experience is present in almost all dreams; auditory
experience in 40 to 50 percent; and touch, taste, smell, and pain in a relatively
small percentage. A considerable amount of emotion is commonly
present—usually a single, stark emotion such as fear, anger, or joy rather than
the modulated emotions that occur in the waking state. Most dreams are in the
form of interrupted stories, made up partly of memories, with frequent shifts of
scene.
     This broad characterization includes a great variety of dream experiences.
Many dreams collected in sleep laboratories are rather ordinary, but most people
have at least some bizarre dreams. At the start of the 20th century Sigmund
Freud proposed that a mental process quite different from that used in the waking
state dominates the dreaming mind. He described this “primary process” as
characterized by more primitive mechanisms, by rapid shifts in energy and
emotions, and by a good deal of sexual and aggressive content derived from
childhood.
     Research in recent years has clarified many of these aspects of dreaming,
but what may be of greatest significance has been the discovery of a biology of
dreaming. Starting with the work of American sleep researchers Eugene
Aserinsky and Nathaniel Kleitman in 1953, studies have shown that a dream
does not consist of fleeting imagery that occurs while a person awakens from
sleep, but instead a dream takes place during a biological state of its own.
     Thus, two clearly distinguishable states of sleep exist. The first state,
called S-synchronized sleep, or NREM-sleep, occupies most of the sleep period...

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