Emily Eagleton

Uwrite 1102

Ms. Caruso

Why do we dream

Dreams started as soon as mankind arrived on the planet. They are not something that has

evolved over time but rather something you've never lived without. Dating all the way back to

B.C times is when people first started recording information about their dreams and what they

were. Ever since then people still to this day can figure out the reasoning behind our dreams we

have and how real they can seem. Scientists have spent many years, time, and money on trying

to study why we dream but people still can't seem to wrap their head around why we do and what

they mean. My goal for this project is to give people the option to chose their dream in a way

and get an inside look on different examples of the dreams we all have.

The way I have decided to convey my knowledge and information about this topic is to

make a Missing poster. Similar to how you would make a missing person poster I would

include the same type of information you normally would which would include the following,

what is missing; I labeled what was missing as Emilys thoughts to represent my lost dream

that I'm asking people to look for. Where it went missing; I said that my dream went missing in

my temporal lobe, this is where our brain holds our memories and recognition so even if we can't

remember the dream it's down in there somewhere (ScienceDaily). What time; I said that my

dream when missing around two o'clock in the morning because that's when you would usually

be out of REM sleep (rapid eye-movement) and into your deep dreaming phase (In your dreams).

I also have a description describing the missing dream and when it went missing is when I

started forgetting what happened in my dream. In the middle of my poster I have a picture of a
thought bubble that has a bunch of ideas coming out from it to represent all the crazy dreams we

have and the thought bubble represents the idea of dreams itself because when you think of

someone dreaming you always think of the thought bubble.

Dreams start because our body shuts down and we go into REM sleep (In your dreams).

There are 5 different types of dreams you can have. This was discovered by Aristotle around 325

B.C ( Ph.D, Kelly Bulkeley) . I portrayed one of them in my description which was Somnium.

Somnium is one of the types of dreams that where he describes you having an out of body

experience. This would be like you can see yourself in your dream doing something else or even

just laying there. This can also mean seeing the Earth from an outside point of view as if you

were looking at it from the moon. Visio is the next type of dream which categorizes all the

dreams you have that predict the future or have any kind of Deja Vu. Deja Vu is believed to be

caused by dreams you have that include either the same people or the same places as would

happen in reality but you can't exactly point it out so you can't really remember the dream but

because our memories and direction/familiarity are all stored in the same place when we feel like

we recognize a situation or feel like weve been apart of it before its because weve probably

dreamed about it before (ScienceDaily). Draculum is when you have dreams that include a

person of interest with authority like the president or a famous person. Insomnium is when you

have a bad dream, nightmare, or a night terror. Its interesting because insomnia is when you

can't sleep and when you have a nightmare or bad dream you usually have trouble falling asleep

or going back to bed. The last one that Aristotle categorized is called Visum. This is when your

dreams include supernatural things as in ghosts or spirits. Im sure weve all experienced the

feeling like were falling from something when were about to fall asleep. You think this would

be categorized with a dream because if feels like a dream but that's actually called a Hypnic
Jump (Feeling like were falling when falling asleep). Overall there is so much left undiscovered

about dreams so a lot of the information I could find was either opinion based or related to

religious reasons.

Works Cited
 "In Your Dreams." Dreams: Why Do We Dream 2 - National Sleep Foundation. N.p., n.d

Web. 14 Feb. 2017.

"Falling Sensation While Sleeping: What It Is & What to Do IAC UK." IAC UK. N.p.,

27 Feb. 2014. Web. 21 Feb. 2017.

ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2017.

Ph.D, Kelly Bulkeley, Eliezer J. Sternberg M.D., Meir H. Kryger M.D., and Patrick

McNamara Ph.D. "Do Your Dreams Have Meaning?" Psychology Today. N.p., n.d. Web. 22

Feb. 2017.