SLEEP DREAM
Do you know human being is not the only one who will dream?
It’s not only occurs in humans, but also most of the mammals, and some birds as well. Although dream is the events that highly unlikely happen in physical reality, and usu­ally out of the dreamer control, but some of the psychoanalyst might treat the dream as a kind of hint to the reality situation, or even, in ancient Greek or Egypt, dream is a key omen that can reveal something that going to happen in the country.
In ancient Greece, they let Pantheon to in­terpret dreams, Why we had dreams? This should start from the theory of conscious, preconscious and unconscious by the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud.
First, the conscious mind includes every­thing that we are aware of. This is the aspect of our mental processing that we can think and talk about rationally. Example, we do things that we know in our daily life.
Second is the preconscious, which is the memory is not always part of consciousness but can be retrieved easily at any time and brought into our awareness. Preconscious plays the role of inspection, it stop the un­conscious sneak into the conscious mind. For an example, our childhood memory were awaken through our parents description.
The last is the unconscious mind. The un­conscious mind is a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that outside of our conscious awareness. Most of the contents of the unconscious are unaccept­able or unpleasant, such as feelings of pain, anxiety, or conflict. According to Freud, the unconscious continues to influence our be­havior and experience, even though we are unaware of these underlying influences.
However, there are different point of views.
According to the Chief Operating Officer of Agape Counselling Centre Malaysia, dream cannot be directly interpreted in a scientific way. Science refers to a system of acquir­ing knowledge base on the scientific method and it can be tested repeatedly.
People will have plenty of different dreams in a process of sleeping. However, they will only remember the last dream, due to the immediate memory of human being. From Chan, people will have dream mostly be­cause of three reasons: environmental factor (the pressure of life, some special events which made you too excited or depressed), behavioral factor (a personal ethics or minds), and self-hypnosis (sup­pression, emotional isolation).
“There are some special circumstances which are related to dream that can be in­terpreted using scientific method”, Chan stated. Have you ever experienced that when you are in conscious condition but you are unable to move your body even you tried to do so.
It is actually a result of brain wave. This can be explained as during the sleeping process, the brain is still awake while the body is in a resting condition. In this pe­riod of time, the brain is very excited and stimulated which results in the feeling of unmovable of body. That is why people will feel that someone is holding down on him or her.
Another case, the feeling of falling down from the bed, it is explainable that the middle ear which manipulates the whole body’s balancing is in an unbalance con­dition. Thus people will automatically feel like falling down from the bed while they are sleeping.
An addition example is sleep-walking. Chan explained that this is a phenom­enon of the synchronous function of both of the brain and body during sleeping. In this case, the brain wave will control the movement of body even though in a sleep­ing condition. A sleeping people might do something which they are not aware of in this circumstance.
“There are lots of things in the world that cannot be interpreted”, he said. To the theories of dream symbolism of the “the father of psychoanalysis”, Sigmund Freud, Chan concludes that we can take it as a reference in our real life, but don’t too rely on it.
Every mankind will have an experience of dreaming, so, will you remember your dreams or you will just forget it?

Stages of sleep

Based on the internet sources, sleep is divided into two types which include REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep and NREM (non-REM) sleep. NREM is further divided into four stages. A typical night of sleep follows this pattern:
Stage 1 (Drowsiness) - When you first fall asleep, you are in Stage 1 sleep. Stage 1 lasts just 5 or 10 minutes. Eyes move slowly under the eyelids, and muscle activity slows down. You are easily awak­ened during Stage 1 sleep.
Stage 2 (Light Sleep) - Next, you go into Stage 2 sleep. In Stage 2, eye’s movement stop, heart rate slows, and body temperature decreases.
Stages 3 & 4 (Deep Sleep) - Then you enter Stages 3 and 4. During stages 3 and 4, you are difficult to awaken. People who are awakened during Deep Sleep do not adjust immediately and often feel groggy and disoriented for several minutes after they wake up. Children may experience bedwetting, night ter­rors, or sleepwalking during Deep Sleep.

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