Dreams and Nightmares
When we dream, the experience is often deeply involving. Frightening dreams make us awake trembling and sweating. Pleasurable dreams leave us with lingering desire. Certain dreams are a form of healing, a way for our minds to re circuit and adjust themselves.
Many people suffer from problems with their sleep. This can be especially true for those who have witnessed or experienced one or more traumatic events such as rape, military combat, natural disasters, beatings, or neighborhood violence.
Some individuals exposed to traumatic physical or psychological events develop a condition known as Post traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It is well known that a problem with sleep is one of many problems for those with PTSD.
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Dreams and the Imagination
Findings published in the December Journal of Sleep Research show that there may be an advantage to dreams that occur for up to a week after a memorable emotional event.
A study conducted by the University of Alberta and the University of Montreal of 470 psychology students revealed that not only do remembered events influence dreams on the following night; they also colour dreams that occur six to seven days later.
And, compared to dreams on the night immediately after the remembered event, the 'delayed incorporations' more often reflected interpersonal interactions, problem resolution and positive emotions, suggesting that these delayed incorporations help the person work through personal difficulties.
"This suggests an ongoing effort to resolve a problem in dreams during the week following the emergence of that problem. The dreams themselves are a kind of treatment," said Dr. Don Kuiken, a psychology professor at the University of Alberta. "Something is going on there that at least touches on and alters the resolutions that people come up with," Dr. Kuiken said.
Both imagination and dreams are similar activities of the mind, and yet they differ in the level of conscious participation that they permit. In the case of the dream, there is a total suspension of rationality and consciousness, so there is little or no direction possible. There is no mode of control.
By contrast, imagination is a tool through which we can make our lives better, different, and creative. By cooperating with it, we can achieve great things.
Why should you settle for less than ideal – when the vision you dare to dream is the vision you can dare to achieve! Therefore, you must be willing to DREAM BIG!
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Everything we see, hear or touch in our world today is made possible because someone, somewhere, dreamt it. Everything in this world comes through the doorway of dreams.
French writer and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France once said, "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only
plan, but also believe."
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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