1. Student’s name:
Jordan Velásquez Deza
Cycle:
VIII
Schedule:
5:30-7:05
Teacher’s name:
Carola Cari Gálvez
AREQUIPA, JUNE 2010
DREAMS
From Greece, dreams have been symbolized by Hypnos
the god of dreams and his brothers Thanatos (Death) and

2. Moiras (Destiny) they were Nix’s children (Night), so that an
antiquity legend said that when we sleep, Death wants to take
our soul but Destiny prevents it fighting, therefore in our
dreams we can see one part of our destiny and one part of our
death.
However in our days when we hit the sack because we
are all in, the dream is just a state of uniform rest of an
organism, on the contrary of the vigil state and is featured by
low levels of physiological activity.
Dream is an involuntary mental process in order to
reformulate the information stored in our memory besides it
submerges us in a virtual reality which consists of images,
sounds, thoughts and sensations
In accordance with Sigmund Freud, in our dreams we
represent the fulfillment of our wishes, even in nightmares.
There are negative dreams of wishes, where our wishes
are not fulfilled, this is maybe for a masochistic tendency.
But according Freud every dream and dreamer are
different.
After we hit the sack or take a forty winks once in a
while we dream, but it does not happen once, we dream in
average 4 to 5 times and when we wake up, we just remember
the last dream. In the moment that we dream, our eyes are
moved a lot, that is called REM (Rapid Eye Movement) and our
brain has the same activity than when we are awake.
Once in a blue moon we can have a lucid dream where
the person is conscious that is dreaming, this happen in REM,
and the person can control her dreams and make her wishes,
trips to the space and in time, to fly, to change her form,
whatever the person wants, they are called Oneironaut.
On the other hand sometimes we have nightmares too in
the dream REM, until XVIII century, people thought that this
happened for monster’s deed, they got on their victims’ chest
and took their breathe away; but today in vain we would
believe in those stories, we could say “it’s a child’s play”
…..Couldn’t we?

3. There is something called “Sleep paralysis” where the
person feels that is already awaked but can not move her body,
even her fingers, can not breathe and then the person feels that
something shiny and high starts to come slowly, and gets on
her chest, the person realizes that this is a witch, who presses
her windpipe, the person fight for her life but the witch’s
weight is incredible, the person follows fighting and when feels
that can not more, the person is awake, it was just a dream.
This happen because normally the brain and the body
awake with a little difference of time, but once in a blue moon
it happens
Some people associated this with an alien kidnapping,
before the people associated this with witches, like the last
story, other with ghosts and demons, depending of the culture
of the person who dreamt.
In our days, our scientists almost have the definitive
answer. Although it would be interesting that these stories be
real, but now we can sleep in calm because these stories are
just dreams.

4. CONCLUSIONS:
• A Dream is an opened door of our minds, it teaches us
who really we are.
• A Dream unifies body, mind and soul.
• We need dreams for a normal and healthy life
SUGGESTIONS:
• We must let our dreams neither lead nor scare us.
• We must accept our dreams like part of the life
• We must try to have more lucid dreams.