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Topic: Sleep and Dreams

Related:
  Sleep    Dream  
  Dream Home    I dream  
  Dream Come True    Dream House  
  American Dream    Dream Work  
  Sleep Apnea    Sleep Disorders  
  Dream Book    Baby Sleep  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Couch
Favorite activity(s):Sleeping,  Sleepwalking sleepwalker
Good point(s):Good kisser
People talk about their ..:Positive outlook,  Weirdness
Personality:Sad,  Nervous,  Spoilt brat
Politics:Apathetic
Listens to:REM,  Metallica,  Radiohead
Ultimate fantasy(s):Starting life again as a baby
Favorite quote(s):"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Angela Berkley,
High School Student

My sleep is filled with horrific dreams that drink my hopes throughout the night, making me awake in a cold sweat, tears of anguish in my eyes.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Lucid dreams implied that there could be consciousness during sleep, a claim many psychologists denied for more than 50 years.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Sleep temples were and are used for the mentally ill, as a place where priests interpret the sick person's dreams.
Lucid dreams occur in deep sleep and do not as a rule end in waking up, unless I wish it and do it by an act of volition.
Many visitors would sleep overnight at the sanctuary in the hope that further insight would be obtained through prophetic dreams.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Lucid dreams may be valuable not only for the scientific study of dreaming and REM sleep, but also for a variety of psychological and recreational applications.
Sleep paralysis occurs sometimes when a person is waking from or falling into REM sleep, the state in which most vivid dreams occur.
Use Lean Dreams to help you receive the benefits of more Growth Hormone and better sleep.
Jake Farley,
Truck Driver

Dream sleep is called REM sleep for Rapid Eye Movement because your eyes move behind your closed lids as if you were scanning a picture.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

These dreams differ somewhat from those of REM sleep in that the dreamer has a certain amount of control over the direction of the dream.
My sleep is full of dreams and memories of my childhood and the certain protection, tolerance and kindness I always felt growing up in the kingdom.
It is generally accepted among sleep researchers that dreams are not recalled unless the sleeper awakens directly from the dream, rather than after going on to other stages of sleep.
 
 
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