Stages of dreaming

Stage 1

• Very light sleep• only a minutes long• if dreamer is not disturbed, he/she will move

onto the next level. (or stage)

Stage 2

• Dreams begin unfolding• different ideas, images, thoughts, ect… drift

through the dreamers mind.

Stage 3

• All the muscles are relaxed in the body• heart rate slows• breathing becomes steady and even• blood pressure is decreasing. – Nothing can really wake the dreamer at this

stage…• Loud noise, or repetition of the name.

Stage 4

• dreams are occuring• The brain heats• Blood pressure and heart rate, change• This is also known as REM sleep or (rapid eye

movement)• First rem period lasts for about 10 minutes

Dreams vs. reality

The world is real?

• 5 senses tell us that our world is real– Our mind attaches these senses to the world,

convincing us that it is real• At times when the moments become over

whelming or busy, we can forget, or lose some of our sensory sensations– Mainly when we are unconscious

Deep meditation or sleeping

• After sleeping, or getting out of a deep meditative state, we feel that there is a gap in our consciousness of the outside world. – “the world only exists for us only when the senses

and mind are directed towards it”?• During deep med. Or sleep, the world

becomes obsolete, because our senses are not active.

Waking up

• After waking, we find ways to prove that we are in reality.– Sometimes dreams feel or seem so real that only

when we wake up, do we them realize it was a dream.

Creating the world

thoughts

• When we have thoughts about something, most generally they become reoccurring. – Some of these thoughts become our behavior,

different thoughts, actions, etc.…• At times these thoughts shape our

circumstances and relationships– Like watching the same movie over and over

illusions

• Everything that we have created, the life we live, etc.…– It gives us the incentive to create different realities in

our minds• Day dreaming

• Our consciousness starts to shift into new dimensions, thus giving our made up reality our new real reality.– “we become consious of the world beyo9nd the mind

and illusions”.

• In essence these two articles are not the same, I wanted to show that scientifically talking about dreams seem a little more normal, and the questioning aspect makes you wonder if our reality can be altered.

Work cited

• http://library.thinkquest.org/11130/data/sleep/process.html

• http://www.successconsciousness.com/index 000014.html