Two Types Of Dreams: Does Everybody Dream?

Does everybody dream? There are two types of dreaming. The type where you dream of swimming in the clear blue waters of Greece, or hiking Mt. Everest in the winter time. Everybody has dreams and plans of what they want to be, or what they want in life. And then there is the kind of dreaming as a person sleeps. A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions and sensations that occur in the mind during different stages of sleep. Have people ever thought that sometimes they do not dream? The brain is a command center for the nervous system and it controls all thoughts. Sometimes the brain can do weird things and make it seem like people are not dreaming when they really are. Dreaming has connection with mental health and the brain, it happens …show more content…
Sometimes dreams are not clear to people. Other times they can be really clear. Barbara Kern tells that she once had a super clear dream where she was lying on her back, holding the bottom of a ladder, trying to help a boy from falling from the top of the ladder. She takes this dream as a real-life concern of trying to help a student that she had struggled with teaching in the past. But she still continued having dreams of not being able to help and trying her hardest for him to succeed. “She characterizes the dream as a nightmare, recalling that it kept her up for half the night”. This shows that dreams relate to a person’s mental health and their emotions. Bad memories or good memories, could reflect in people’s dreams. Neil Osterweil quotes, “researchers now believe that dreams help us process emotions, consolidate memories and more”. If you have a good, clear dream it would be positive to a person’s mental health. On the other hand, if a person kept having nightmares and remembering how those negative dreams affected them and made them feel, they would be down all the time. Their mental health would not be very good and not …show more content…
The human body does different things when they sleep. For example, when a person sleeps, their body temperature increases. Which is an effect of eating something before bed. This can disturb their natural sleeping patterns. Such as if they eat something different before bed every night, it could affect the person’s sleep differently every night. Which could also determine the different dreams that a person has. Dr. Wenk states, “The interesting thing about dream content when you dream outside of REM is that it incorporates things that are going on around you, and especially in your own body.” So yes, body temperature has effect on the dreams that a person