3. Many types of dreams
At least 1 significant person, object
or an event
4. Dreams also tells us what we think
or feel about certain issues in our
life.
5. Without dreams, we can become insane,
and will not be able to treat ourselves from
the problems we encounter everyday.
6. Problem
Only has a small amount of research
Therapists feel unprepared
Weird because we sleep and dream for
more than 1/3 of our lives
7. It wasn’t until 2,000 years later when
scientists started to research psychology,
that the research on dreams started to gain
more popularity.
Brief History
8. Freud- neurologists, psychologist
•Dreams were our minds in a chaotic state,
showing random images which forms into a
new idea.
Jung- psychologist
•Dreams were a way of communicating with
the unconscious mind
Some important people
9. Dreams do serve as a healing session
which the mind produces while we sleep
More stress with less dreams
Right Now…
12. REM- Rapid Eye Movement
Dreams are more of a storybook type.
Most important stage.
Less REM= More stress
13. NREM (Non Rapid Eye Movement)
75% of our sleep cycle
Vivid dreams and is comprised of many
colors and abstract shapes
Sleep walking, sleep talking, sleep terror,
and nocturnal leg cramps occur.
14. The amount of time we spend in the REM
stage decreases as we grow older, reducing
the time we dream that serve as therapy.
15. Infants spend 8 hours awake and when
they are asleep, 8 hours in REM
stage, 8 hours in NREM stage.
16. Children 2-6 year old spend 12 hours
awake, only 3-4 hours of REM sleep, and
7-8 hours of NREM sleep
17. Children from 7-16 year old spend 14-16
hours awake, only 2 hours of REM sleep,
and 6-8 hours of NREM sleep.
18. As we grow older, we continue with less
REM stage and less sleep overall.
Adults only sleep on average, 8 hours a
night, 20% of which is REM sleep.
19. We dream in order to give ourselves time to
relax and de-stress and to confront our
emotions by entering therapy sessions given
by our brain.
