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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Dreams and Stages of Sleep
Initially when we close our eyes we lightly drift in and out of sleep and can be awakened easily by external noise. Muscle activity slows down. The eyes move slowly and occasionally we see flashes of images which may be visual thoughts. There is also the possibility that we may be awakened suddenly by a sensation that we are falling or something similar. This is called stage 1 sleep. Continue reading
Hobson: Activation Synthesis Theory
This theory of dreaming was first proposed in 1977 by Hobson and McCarley. At the onset of REM sleep, random signals (known as PGO spikes) arise from the Pons (a structure located on the brain stem) and travel up the mid brain to the cortex. This stimulates the cortex and the brain tries to make sense of these signals or “noise”. There is no external stimuli so the brain creates dream imagery from this noise (internal stimuli). Therefore the theory originally suggested that dreams were in fact meaningless. (Hobson later revised his theory to acknowledge the possibility that dreams may have meaning).
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Dream Journal Entry: 20th July 2009
I am in a bus with R. We are on holiday in another country. We seem to be on a tour. I notice a campsite so press the button for the driver to stop. As I walk down the bus I notice a man with a chainsaw which immediately changes to a knife. He seems to have a problem with the driver. The bus turns the corner into a gym hall and the man with the chainsaw is now a bomb floating in mid-air. Continue reading
Dream Journal Entry: 18th July 2009
I am in a hotel. There are three of us and we seem to be on a tour of the hotel. I stop and wait outside one of the rooms and I can hear the hotel manager speak to two male guests. He advises them that businessmen can bring their own mattress. As he continues to speak I wander into another room which is occupied by two foreigners. Continue reading
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Tagged B, bag, Beath High School, car, car park, charity, classroom, Cowdenbeath, credit card, crowd, cycling, fancy dress, fit, foreigner, hill, hotel, hotel room, house, manager, mattress, money, muddy, notebook, P, public park, school, sculpture, sister, steep, Stenhouse Street, teacher, tour, underpants, wood
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Dream Journal Entry: 13th July 2009
I am in my parents back garden listening to J’s band playing next door. I listen to them play Digsy’s dinner by Oasis which J sings. I pick up a large pot which seems to be full of urine. I pour out the urine over the back fence. I think about putting paving slabs down on top of each other so that I can stand on them and look over the back fence. I am about to open the garage door when W turns up. I rummage through the pockets of a jacket looking for something. I find a piece of paper which states that I have been in prison. W asks me if I can explain this. I tell W that I am meeting D tomorrow as he is coming up from London. Continue reading
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Tagged D, fence, garage, grandmother, J, jacket, London, Natal Place, Oasis, old man, pocket, pot, prison, slab, urine, W
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Dream Journal Entry: 7th July 2009
I am in a house which may be my house. I walk into the bathroom and look up and there is no ceiling. There seems to be Polish and Nigerian builders working away upstairs on the ceiling. Two of the workers are looking down at me. I say to someone in the bathroom: Should I go anyway? I proceed to sit on the toilet. I look up again and the foreman has asked all the workers to stop looking down at me. Continue reading
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Tagged bathroom, builders, corridor, department store, fog, French girl, haze, house, meditation, Nigerian, note, Polish, R, tap, toilet, water cooler, work
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