i dreamed one day i was driving down the road and my bossy wife was giving me head...... i woke up and i was like WDF. anyway i went to work and after i gets back later that afternoon, i bosses wife was like, i colour of your interior should take me for a drive in ur car one of these days. sooooo ya..... Deja-vu soon, I HOPE!!!

I find it funny when my dogs have dreams... they lay on the ground with their legs twitching, and then they yelp and bark.

I can only remember three dreams I've ever had. Usually I'll wake up after a dream and be like, "that was wierd" but won't be able to remember it shortly after that. I guess I have too much useless info stored in my head to remember my dreams.





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Nathaniel O'Flaherty wrote:ok well in my last psyc class dreams got explained

here is my rewording of it.

you have dreams because durring sleep, your spinal column is sending out random electrical impulses, that are trully random and mean nothing and in no significant order.

I don't remember it being a spinal column thing, it had more to do with the serotonin levels of the brain "righting" themselves. I'm not saying you're wrong, but the nature of Theta sleep is really not known

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your brain stem then recieves these electrical pulses sees that they are completely random. however, the brain can not have randomness. it is required to have everything organized and in understandable order. so it takes the randomness of these pulses and starts methodically filing these pulses away into an order that can be understanded by the creative and logic portions of the brain. and many times as it is doing this it cant keep the same path going (since these pulses are random) and is why then u could be casually walking in the middle of a parking lot and then suddenly be surrounded by 5,000 women and then a sea monster jump out of the asphalt and jump into a 69 camaro and speed off.

At least it has good taste. Something that I know of (and practise sometimes) is called lucid dreaming, you retain conciousness, and can think rationally, reason and deduce, yet the other parts of your brain and body are in Delta/Theta sleep. It takes a LOT of focus, but it is achievable, and it also tends to discredit the randomness of dreams.

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and since ur brain is deciding how and where and when it is doing this organization of random pulses, this is what allows you to in some cases "control" your dreams. instead of letting your brain just file this stuff away in any order it can, u are able to TELL it how to do it.

I've seen EEG's of people (and myself) when lucid dreaming, and when in true Delta/Theta sleep. The Lucid dreams are only slightly different than full conciousness.

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pretty cool stuff. also learned that you have seperate dreams because all humans go in and out of REM all night long. u can not fall into a sleep and have a dream (durring rem) for the entire night. it may FEEL like it was one consistant dream but it was however split up.

yes, Theta sleep is usually 20-25% of a sleep cycle. Most dreams are about 15-20 seconds long, but because you aren't lucid and can comprehend the passage of time, time becomes effectively meaningless. Another interesting thing: you can't read in your sleep.

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i believe it was that you go into a DEEP sleep for 90 minutes and then REM sleep for 30 minutes. and keep repeating that process.

Theta sleep is only about 4-5 minutes per 30 minutes of Delta sleep.

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also learned contrary to what i had thought, that REM sleep is actually VERY close to being fully concious. i ha dalways thought dream state/rem was the DEEPEST sleep. deep sleep has very little brain activity. and when u switch to rem sleep u are in fact VERY close to being fully concious. which also explain why sometimes u awake out of the middle of a dream and still feel liek ur falling down a whole, or ur sweating or heart racing etc...

Well, sleep breaks down like this:
Alpha - First drowsy stage... You're transitioning from concious stages and your lucid though patterns are shutting down.
Beta - Transition stage, your brain's chemistry is getting ready to change, in order to induce the back flushing and memory storing functions of your brain as well as prepare your autonomic systems for the deep-rest repair and maintenance stages.
Delta - Deep sleep. Your brain is running on minimal use, and the body's functions are limited outside pulmonary and circulatory systems... your autonomic system is in the lowest normal phase of activity, and the body is flushing dead blood cells and replacing with new ones, as well as more thoroughly repairing and stabilising areas that have been over-worked or damaged. It's the "clean-up" crew stage.
Theta - REM sleep. It's either your brain involuntarily making its own stimulus to keep itself from dropping out completely, or, a product of the chemical shifts that happen in the brain after the Delta phase of sleep, or, your short term memories are being shifted into long-term or physical (muscle) memory, or, it's something a little more strange like a secondary latent function being turned on, temporarily.

The "Gamma phase" is rare, it's one marked by almost total lack of cerebral activity, or extremely unusual and rapid shifts from Delta to Alpha. From what I've read, only the very most socio/psychopathic persons have this phase of sleep, and it's not known what the wellspring of this is, it's thought to be actually the manifestation of cranial lesions that alter the brain chemistry and create the psychopathic tendencies.



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More info... I may have gotten my terms wrong in the last post, I wasn't trying to be specious.

http://www.dreamviews.com/sleepstages.php



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u said juarez? i live right next to it and go there everyday! lol (im beingh serious, i just found it weird since i never heard anyone mention juarez on here before)