Friday, December 2, 2011

Why Do We Dream?

         In recent experient, REM sleep may help us work through difficult events in our lives, researchers said. Brain scan of people who think of emotionally nagative pictures when falling asleep showed that the part of the brain that handles emotions  powered down during rapid eye movement, or REM sleep and dreams occur in the state. The reason why we sleep is not still known, because the relatioship between sleep and our emotional well-being is difficult to explain. During REM sleep, the activity of the brain is in the emotion-processing part of the brain and decreases the release of brain chemical linked to stress. When people undergo an emotional event, stress chemicals are released to work through that event during sleep.  a neuroscientist said somewhere between these process, the brain has performed an elegant trick of divorcing emotions from memory.  But medical director for sleep medicine said dreaming is not a cure for emotional stress. Dreaming improves the ability to heal stressful situation, but it is unlikely to erase bad memories. Sleep has many important role and one of those benefits helps us maintain our emotional and mental health. We have to spend time to do many things such as assignment, play, etc. So we sometimes must do them by decreasing hours of sleeping or sleep when we can use time freely. I try to sleep for at least six hours in weekday, but I usually stay up late and sleep long enough in weekend. I can't help it. When you  can't wake up in the morning, how do you work through it? In my case, above all, I get out of my bed and eat or drink something, and then I can dump a desire to sleep more.


Vocab
Gory
Part of speech: Adjective
Definition: Involving violence and blood
Synonym: Terrible
Sentence: A new movie is banned to show by some gory details.

Elusive
Part of speech: Adjective
Definition: Difficult to undersand and explain.
Synonym: Vague
Sentence: Students is confused at their teacher's elusive explanation.

2 comments:

  1. when i cant wake up, ill try to go out from house. there is a possibility which i fall asleep again. even if its holiday, going out from house and going to cafeteria or somowhere is also effective, i guess.

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  2. Thank you for sharing. In my case, I love sleeping, so when I get up once but I want to sleep more, I do not resist the desire. I have two interesting stories. The one is related with sleeping directly. The other is probably related with sleeping, too, I think, The first story is that I do not feel stress to my assignments. On the other hand, when I could not study enough, I feel stress. As a result, I usually study at least 3 hours. If I couldn't, I try to add my study hours the next day, or I accept I lost myself. That's why I have rarely had bad dreams recently, especially in Hawaii. The other story is that I do not remember the moment I had serious traffic accident when I was 6. According to my mother, I had cried at that time. In other words, I had consciousness. After I read your article, maybe I guess I had slept at that time. And, I had forgotten the crucial memory during the sleeping time quickly, I think. Anyway, dreaming is really mysterious. It is said that even dogs have dream. It is also said that Dogs feel stress in daily basis. I think that dreaming and stress are very relative things.

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