https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt A Healthy Escape en-us 2019-05-02 18:18:37 UTC 2019-05-23 19:35:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f31b.png adrianhyt18 https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/356355357 The article discusses the theories behind dreaming, with a common denominator of describing it as a separate state of consciousness, without our senses. Due to a lack of input senses, our dreams our "corrected" by our senses, once woken up. Evidence has been found that REM activity helps the brain bind neural connections. 

]]> 2019-05-02 18:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/356355357 adrianhyt18 https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/356355970 Eagleman describes a series of interviews he conducted in which he met with Alcatraz inmates who had been sentenced to some time in the Hole, a place of complete isolation. While inmates were in this room of complete darkness, they experienced a complete lack of all sensory information, but were still capable of having real-life experiences and images during full consciousness.

]]> 2019-05-02 18:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/356355970 adrianhyt18 https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/356358289 The author discusses many different factor that can disrupt the normal sleep cycle, as well as factors that could lead to the content of our dreams. Factor such as depression and PTSD can lead to nightmares occuring often and substances such as marijuana and alcohol can also play roles in affecting your sleep cycles.

]]> 2019-05-02 18:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/356358289 adrianhyt18 https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/356362060 Memorable dreams (bizzare or emotionally intense dreams) showed links to the amygdala and hippocampus, both of which play primary roles in forming our short and long term memories as well as help us with emotional reactions. Another study performed by Mathew Walker at UC Berkeley found that "less dreaming" can affect our ability to understand complex emotions experienced in daily life.


]]> 2019-05-02 18:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/356362060 adrianhyt18 https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/356363517  This journal provides a deeper research into the factors that can lead to recurring nightmares in children. Results from one study showed that anxiety, trauma history, and dissociation accounted for 39% of the variation of nightmare stresses. Anxiety and dissociation proved to be positive predictors of nightmare distress whereas parent processing variables were weak predictors given the current findings.]]> 2019-05-02 18:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/356363517 adrianhyt18 https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/356365131 Edward Pace-Schott cites psychologist, Sigmund Freud, to further explain that dreams are merely fragments of reproductions from real-life experience, that are often incomplete and open-ended. Only on the very rare is the brain capable of producing a dream with as much completeness as reality; although he believed that REM promotes recovery from sleep and slowly prepares the brain to return back to consciousness.

]]> 2019-05-02 19:03:10 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/356365131 adrianhyt18 https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/359758440 The article speaks on the effects that lucid dreaming can have when returning back to full consciousness. Good dreams tend to result in us waking up happier and energetic compared to bad dreams/nightmares which can make you wake up feeling tired as well as thinking negatively.

]]> 2019-05-14 05:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/359758440 adrianhyt18 https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/359760346 This article talks about lucid dreaming and the different forms and positions it can take. He talks about the possibilities that lucid dreaming can have in helping your conscious mind as well as be used to treat things such as recurring nightmares and PTSD. He also begins to briefly explain the dangers that can come with lucid dreaming such as sleep paralysis and certain hallucinations. ]]> 2019-05-14 05:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/359760346 adrianhyt18 https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/360574368 Dr. Andrew Weil speaks on the factors that can lead to suppressing REM sleep. Marijuana, alcohol, and over-the-counter prescriptions all have similar effects in putting you to sleep, but limiting your REM cycle and prohibiting restful sleep. He furthers this with the effects that can follow such as trouble concentrating, obesity, irritability, and insomnia. 

]]> 2019-05-15 22:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/360574368 adrianhyt18 https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/360588047 This article speaks of a study that was done looking at the gray matter volume of high lucidity dreamers. Researchers split participants into two groups based off of their lucid dreaming abilities. The results revealed that the high lucidity group showed higher volumes of gray matter, showing a correlation between lucid dreaming and metacognitive function.

]]> 2019-05-16 00:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/360588047 adrianhyt18 https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/362899668 I took to interview a long time, personal friend on his memories of being lucid. Throughout the interview, he recalls memorable dreams that he has had in the past and the effects that they have had on him. He discusses one of his more recent lucid dreams and describes how he woke up feeling much more energetic and excited after experiencing the content of his lucid dream.]]> 2019-05-23 12:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/362899668 adrianhyt18 https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/363053264 This essay considers many of the benefits that dreams can have on the human brain. It speaks on the role it can play in assisting our minds in processing emotions as well as helping us solve real-life struggles and find solutions to problems taking place in our current reality. ]]> 2019-05-23 18:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/adrianhyt18/SP19Essay4Hyatt/wish/363053264