Ever had that dream where you forget your pants? People believe that dreams are not important and can be easily forgotten. Dreams are much more important than one might think, they try to communicate with us in a lot of different aspects. For example, a woman was on a date with a man and couldn’t decide whether she wanted to go out with him again. She had a dream later in the week, and in the dream, she was convinced that she shouldn’t go out with the guy again so she didn’t. This shows how dreams can communicate with us. This also shows that we can be easily manipulated and influenced by our brain. There is an experiment that shows that we actually able to recognize when we are dreaming and able to dream about real places. The experiment: “In the 1960s, after analyzing more than 600 dream reports from labs in Brooklyn and Bethesda, Md., Frederick Snyder, a psychologist, concluded that “dreaming consciousness” was in fact “a remarkably faithful replica of waking life.” In his sample, 38 percent of the settings were real places that dreamers recognized from their lives; another 43 percent resembled places they knew. This experiment shows how real dreams can be but it also shows how sometimes dreams don't always tell the truth, for example, your brain can make your dream of the wilderness and be attacked by a dangerous animal, even if you live in the city and are at no risk of a attack like that. This refers back to the idea of how impressionable our brains are. You could be having those dreams because you watched something related to the dream and your brain thought it was important and wanted you to be reminded. I thought this article was interesting because every night we dream and push those meaningless dreams to the side and don’t look into them, I was mesmerized by the idea of my little dreams might have a bigger meaning. Most of the time we dream about things that are familiar sometimes that always a good thing. In another study it talks about upcoming tests makes its way into their dreams. The experiment: “ a student contacted a group of aspiring doctors on the day they were scheduled to take their medical school entrance exam. Nearly three-quarters of the 719 students who replied said they had dreamed about the exam at least once over the course of the semester, and almost all of those dreams had been nightmares: They got lost on their way to the test center, found it impossible to decipher the test questions or realized they were writing in invisible ink.” This shows how anxiety about something stressful can also be replicated into your dream world. It doesn’t have to be positive, the most stressful things can make it into your dreams because your brain wants you to know that is important. Dreams let us work our anxieties at a low-risk environment. Weather its import like a college exam or that you should dump a guy, your brain is trying to communicate with us and we shouldn't ignore that. This can also help with our memory, the article states “ “The dreamer’s own self was “well preserved” and “rarely plagued by features incongruous with waking reality.” “The representation of self is presumably one of the fundamental cornerstones of our long-term memory systems,” they explained.”I chose this article because every night we have these dreams, and we ignore them so much because it is easier to ignore rather than figure out what they actually mean. You might be able to figure more about yourself if you spend the time a take a look at your dreams. Robb, A. (2018, November 10). Why Do You Keep Dreaming You Forgot Your Pants? It'sScience.Retrievedfrom https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/opinion/sunday/dreams-meaning-science.html?rref=collection/timestopic/Psychologyand Psychologists&action=click&contentCollection=health®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=10&pgtype=collection
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Kaitlyn Bennett
1/3/2019 03:59:42 am
This was very interesting to me because I very rarely remember my dreams and when I do they are always a little out there and confusing to me. I have found however that the more stressed or anxious I am the more likely I will remember my dream. The study done about the students who had to take their entrance exam was really interesting. The fact that so many students reported having some sort of dream about the same exact test is kind of extraordinary. Our brains are all so different and we will never truly understand what another person is thinking, but to have so many people have a nightmare about the same event it kind of amazing considering these things.
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Harry Steinharter
1/15/2019 07:02:24 am
This is pretty dang neat. I've heard in the past that dreams have meaning but I never believed it. I always thought that it was some nonsense from stuff like Buzzfeed or Polygon, but apparently they actually do mean something. I wish I could interpret my dreams using what I learned in this blog post but I never have dreams, maybe I have a few a year, but they are few and far between. Or possibly I am having dreams and just never remember them, who knows?
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Sean Whynot
1/20/2019 01:39:24 pm
This article is very interesting. I very rarely have dreams. On the off chance that I do have a dream, it is typically a dream that I have had many times before and really random that I can't imagine having any meaning. The study about so many students having a dream about the exam make me wonder about how directly our dreams are related to stress, emotions and our actual lives. I also think about this because I don't believe that I get as stressed as other people and I wonder if that could relate to my lack of dreams relating to the real world.
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