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Sleep & Dreaming, 1989.
Examines the physiological & psychological interpretations of dreaming & sleeping & the consequences of sleep & dream deprivation.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 39.95
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"This paper will examine the physiological and psychological interpretations of sleep and dreaming. Prior to the 1940s, scientists considered sleep to be "a passive phenomenon during which major elements of the brain rested" (Long, 1987, p. 796). It has since been discovered that the brain is actually very active during certain periods of sleep. Physiologists have noted two distinct cycles which occur in sleep: the slow wave sleep (SWS) cycle and the rapid eye movement (REM) cycle. During sleep, these two cycles alternate from one to the other approximately once every ninety minutes. During the SWS phase, the sleeper's brain wave patterns slow down dramatically. During the REM phase the brain wave patterns become so active at times that they resemble those of a person who is fully awake (Palca, 1989, p. 352)."
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"Fahrenheit 451" and "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sleep?", 2004.
This paper compares and contrasts the novels "Fahrenheit 451" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?"
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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The paper is a comparison and contrast of these two novels "Fahrenheit 451" and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?" by Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick respectively. The paper argues that the scenario of the future offered by Bradbury is not as dark a vision as compared to the scenario offered by Dick.
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"We are presented with two scenarios of the future in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit" and Philip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" In Bradbury's futuristic American city, meaningless lives are led watching non-stop TV, listening to loud music and driving fast cars. Books are banned and purposefully burned to help undermine differences in intelligence between members of society."
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Dreams and Dreaming, 2004.
An overview of the process of dreaming and what dreams really mean.
2,253 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper attempts to define what exactly a dream is, whether it is a story that evolves in the mind in a single flash of inspiration, moving from beginning to end in a few seconds, or whether there more to it than mere fantasy. It examines how many researchers, both past and present, have given numerous definitions for what dreams are and how they can be interpreted.
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The Mechanics of Dreaming
The Sleep Cycle
Body Dynamics
The Healing Power of Dreams
Dream Deprivation
The Meaning of Dreams
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"Thanks to these dream researchers, it is now known that there is a regular cycle of sleeping and dreaming during each period of sleep. For most people, a night of sleep begins with certain rituals; sleep then is supposed to come in an instant. Within the first few minutes, the temperature of the body falls, and brain waves begin their regular alpha rhythms, indicating a relaxed state. In Stage One, the muscles lose their tension, breathing becomes more even, and the heart rate slows. In Stage Two, random or nonsensical image may float through the mind, mimicking the dream state. In Stage Three, the body continues its process of slowing down; the muscles lose all tightness, breaths come slowly and rhythmically, the heart rate decreases and blood pressure falls. In Stage Four, the body and the mind are at their most restful periods and may last for many hours."
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Dreams and Dream Research, 2006.
This paper looks at the sleep cycle and studies dreaming.
2,261 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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In this article, the writer discusses what exactly a dream is. The writer ask whether it is a story that evolves in the mind in a single flash of inspiration, moving from beginning to end in a few seconds, or if is there more to it than mere fantasy. The writer discusses the sleep cycle and the act of dreaming and notes that many researchers, both past and present, have given numerous definitions for what dreams are and how they can be interpreted.
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The Mechanics of Dreaming
The Sleep Cycle
Body Dynamics
The Healing Power of Dreams
Dream Deprivation
The Meaning of Dreams
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"A 2000 study at the University of Michigan found that the human body's dreaming condition is much like the fight or flight response in waking life, which gears the body up to confront a threatening situation. Yet the brain simultaneously signals the spinal cord to hold the body completely rigid. Science is still attempting to exactly determine what
physical function dreaming has for humans, but since the 1950's, researchers have made remarkable advances in the study of sleep and dreams.
"The cycles of sleep are a fairly new discovery, but in the years since researchers finally cracked the code of sleep, much has been learned about how the human body reacts when one dreams."
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A Comprehensive Review of Sleep and Sleep Disorders, 2002.
This paper provides a discourse on the physiological and psychology issues relating to sleep.
4,593 words (approx. 18.4 pages), 17 sources, APA, $ 119.95
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This paper examines the physiological and psychology aspects of sleep. It opens with a comprehensive overview of normal sleep and its physiological basis and then details over a dozen of the most common sleep disorders (their basis, diagnosis, treatment, etc.), including insomnia, narcolepsy and sleepwalking.
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"The ancient Greeks ascribed the need for sleep to the god Hypnos ("Sleep"), the child of Darkness and Night and the brother of Death, whose power, as he swept across humanity, was so great that even the gods were forced to succumb to him. The prominent place of sleep in ancient mythology serves as a testament to the unequivocal importance it plays in everyday life. Everyone needs to sleep. Although researchers today have devised sophisticated means to define, describe, and detail sleep they still do not fully understand its function. However, when sleep is disturbed, the effects are dramatic and clear. Without sleep we become tired, disoriented, lethargic, mentally dulled, confused, or in extreme cases hallucinatory or assume a state resembling psychosis. Current research on sleep focuses on two main areas: basic sleep mechanisms and sleep physiology and sleep disorders in clinical medicine."
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To Dream or Not To Dream, 2001.
A paper discussing the "American Dream," and how it has been denied to certain people throughout history.
1,111 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 38.95
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A paper discussing the "American Dream," and how it has been denied to certain people throughout history. The author relies on literary quotes to make the case that, in various points in American history, racism, poverty, and many other factors have conspired to deny the American Dream to groups of people.
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"In the world today and throughout the past three centuries, millions of people have turned to America as the ?land of promise? where happiness is guaranteed and dreams are realized. The ?American dream? differs somewhat for all people but is built around the principles of being financially successful and having the opportunity to meet one?s goals in life. As this ideal has become more prevalent throughout the world, it has also become more elusive and difficult to obtain. This dream and guarantee that America supposedly offers is too often smothered by societal structure and philosophies, which impose limitations upon and create barriers against those seeking a better life; consequently, millions are left hopeless with their burning passion for life nearly extinguished."
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Theories of Dreaming, 2000.
This paper examines the various theories put forth in scientific journals surrounding dreaming. Special attention is paid to the dreams of children and the role of REM sleep with respect to dreaming.
3,400 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 96.95
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This paper discusses a wide range of theories involving dreaming, including the dreams of children, adolescents, and women. It also examines the differences in dream content with respect to age and gender, a behavioural perspective of dreaming, the rhetorical theory of dreaming, the causes and effects of post-traumatic nightmares, and a theory of dreaming as an experience of consciousness.
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"In children, the REM stage goes from about fifty percent of total sleep in infants, to twenty five percent in two and three year olds, and down to around eighteen percent in older Dreaming 3 children and adolescents. Jean Piaget described three stages in children?s understanding of their own dreams. In Piaget?s theory, the first stage occurs around the age of five or six. These children are only able to interpret their dreams as something external to themselves and as being insignificant. Stage two, which begins around the age of seven or eight, has the children viewing their dreams as coming from the inside but they still view them as things happening around them, in their bedroom as they sleep. Stage three begins around the age of eight or nine and during this stage, children experience their dreams as a reflection of their innermost thoughts and feelings."
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Lucid Dreaming, 2002.
A comprehensive examination of the dream state, an overview of lucid dreaming, and its relevance for psychologists and other clinicians today.
4,494 words (approx. 18.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 117.95
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Lucid dreaming is a paradoxical mental state in which dreamers become aware that they are dreaming and, in some cases, deliberately take control of the dream action. This paper provides an overview of why humans sleep and dream, an examination of what lucid dreams are, and their relevance to psychologists and other clinicians today. A discussion of the potential adverse consequences identified by some critics is followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.
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Introduction
Review and Discussion
Why Do Humans Sleep and Dream Anyway?
What Are Lucid Dreams? Cheap Thrills or Divine Insight?
Learning How to Dream Lucidly
Relevance of Lucid Dreaming to Psychology
"Completely Risk-Free" or Not?
Improving Accessibility to Lucid Dreaming
Conclusion
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"Because everyone dreams, it would seem easy enough to classify the experience as being "ordinary," and yet the dream experience itself can seem to be anything but "ordinary." Researchers have been investigating why animals sleep and have attempted to determine the biological role of dreams. Lucid dreaming means dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming. This consciousness allows people to guide their dreams and explore a potentially infinite number of possibilities. A staunch lucid dream advocate and researcher, Dr. Stephen LaBerge, even maintains that lucid dreaming may help people heal faster and enjoy other benefits, including aiding personal-development, enhancing self-confidence, overcoming nightmares, improving mental (and perhaps, physical) health, facilitating creative problem solving as well as providing "thrilling entertainment." In all fairness, it should be pointed out that LaBerge is also hawking DreamLights and other devices designed to help people learn how to dream lucidly at as much as $1,000 a pop -- and he has sold a lot of them."
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The Importance of Dreaming to Good Health, 2006.
This paper describes a case study that demonstrates the importance of dreaming in maintaining good health.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper describes how dreaming is a means of ensuring good health. The author explains though all human beings dream when they sleep (barring some manger of brain injury), it has been largely unclear why this is so. The purpose of this study will be to illustrate what is known about dreaming and its relationship to human health through an examination of the critical theories that have been developed over the years to account for the human dream state.
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"For thousands of years, scholars have debated the meaning and significance of dreaming. The importance of sleep is obvious. Without sleep, mental and physical health quickly deteriorates because the body does not have a chance to revitalize itself. Sleep itself is known to boost brainpower and also keep the body healthy (The night shift, 2005). However, though all human beings dream when they sleep (barring some manger of brain injury), it has been largely unclear why this is so. The purpose of this study will be to illustrate what is known about dreaming and its relationship to human health through an examination of the critical theories that have been developed over the years to account for the human dream state. What is known for certain about dreaming is that it is an ubiquitous state of cognition during sleep for all mammals and all birds"
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Dreaming as a Physiological Process, 2001.
Examining the origins of dreams and their meanings.
1,210 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper shows the effects that dreams may have on psychological well being originating from external sources, not the dream itself. Dreams are physiological phenomenon with no meaning. The paper discusses the Freudian belief that dreams reflect the unconscious mind through complex metaphors. It explains that this is contradicted by current research, suggesting that dreams are the result of physiological processes during REM sleep and that meaning and significance come from external rather than internal sources.
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"Pop psychology has influenced society with the Freudian belief that dreams reflect the unconscious mind through complex metaphors and hidden meaning. Research done by J. A. Hobson, R. W. McCarley and others contradict these beliefs, suggesting that dreams are the result of physiological processes during REM sleep and that meaning and significance come from external rather than internal sources. A dream can be defined as ?a sequence of sensations, images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person?s mind? (Hobson & Stickgold, 1994). The effects that dreams may have on psychological well being originate from external sources, not the dream itself. "
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Dreaming, 2002.
An examination of the various theories of why people dream.
1,698 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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This paper discusses various theories on dreaming. The first part looks at the writing of Sigmund Freud regarding dreams as the royal road to the unconscious. It shows how implicit in Freud?s writings is the view that dreams evolved as humans were forced to sublimate their natural desires to live in society. It then looks at the work of J. Allan Hobson, who saw dreams as a result of the natural physiological workings of the brain. The last part examines the work of Owen Flanagan, who seeks a middle ground between dreams as the royal road to the unconsciousness and dreams. However, though he is far from ascribing to dreams with the value which Freud placed on them, it examines how Flanagan also acknowledges that dreams may have values of self-expression.
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"If dreams were truly sublimated desires, however, then the young child would be more likely to dream of repressed wants ? such as the cookie she was not allowed to eat before dinner or the toy he saw while at the supermarket with mommy. After all, children are taught to sublimate their desires at a younger age. Biological research into sleep also shows that many mammals do, in fact, have dreams. Primate research involving gorillas who have been taught sign language often communicate about the images they see in their heads while they are asleep. While such accounts may be explained in Freudian terms as an animal?s wish to be free, it also provides a startling challenge to the notion that humans evolved the capacity to dream as a social adaptation."
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"Dreaming in Cuban": An Analysis of the Letters., 2002.
Analysis of Cristina Garcia's novel "Dreaming in Cuban".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This three-page undergraduate paper discusses the significance of the letters woven throughout Cristina Garcia's novel Dreaming in Cuban in regard to the novel's central themes.
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"Dreaming in Cuban", 2007.
A review of the novel "Dreaming in Cuban" written by Cristina Garcia.
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This paper examines "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina Garcia, a widely acclaimed novel set against the backdrop of Fidel Castro's Cuba, and reflects on the sociopolitical effects of Cuba turning communist under the leadership of Fidel Castro. It explains how the characters of the story experience various diseases, real or perceived, and reflect the trauma that Cuba was going through at that time.
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Introduction
Poetics of Disease
Poetics of Rehabilitation
Conclusion
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"Female characters in the novel seem to be yearning for transparency perceived as no materiality, setting them free from the biological and geographical barriers. Celia's lover leaves for Spain and unable to cope with the separation Celia becomes so sick that she remains bedridden for eight months and her body atrophies. Despite all the medical tests doctors could not find any medical cause of her illness. Finally Sinatra is consulted who attributes Cilia's problems to a "wet landscape in palm" linking her illness to the environment. Cuba being an island Celia perceives herself as a captive especially when she cant be with her lover who is free to roam around."
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Lucid Dreaming, 1993.
A look at the nature of conscious dreaming including research, incidence, psychological purpose and significance, biology, sexuality, controversies and the future.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 10 sources, $ 71.95
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"Lucid Dreaming
Introduction
Van Eeden first reported in 1913 that some people are able to remember the circumstances of waking life rather freely, to think clearly, and to act deliberately upon reflection, while at the same time experiencing a dream world that also is vividly real (Bootzin, Kihlstrom, & Schacter, 1990, p. 109). His viewpoint contrasted with the conventional opinion that dreams usually reflect a state during which the dreamer has no awareness or true volition. It is the purpose of this paper to define lucid dreams, ages of likely occurrence, the stages of sleep of lucid dreams, the manipulation of lucid dreams, what research shows about lucid dreams, and the therapeutic value of lucid dreams. This discussion will be followed by a summary and..."
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Descartes and Dreaming, 2002.
Assesses philosopher, Descartes' views on dreams and perception of reality.
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This paper explores Descartes' dream argument in order to determine the differences between waking and dreaming cognition and how Descartes' viewed the problem of distinction therein.
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