Dreaming Is Just One of the Natural

Dreaming is just one of the natural phenomenons that human beings do during the process of sleeping. Indeed, this natural process is not constrained to any particular characteristic and people with cultural diversity, all age groups and different social backgrounds dream throughout their entire lives. Since dreaming is linked to the mind and soul, thus it is considered that people will continue to dream until they are living (Hobson 2004).

Dreaming is an entire chain and cycle of metaphors, feelings, sensation and insight that forms a story while a person is asleep. Since the dreams people see are not in one shape, hence it can be peaceful, thrilling, practical, scary, chaotic, or implausible. This means that during the entire phenomenon of dreaming, a person can hallucinate about humans, houses, places such as cities, hills, rivers and various other things that the individual have not even seen in real life (Hobson 2004).

This course of dreaming can last from few seconds and can go up to several minutes. Additionally, it has been observed that a person can dream up to ten times or even more in just a single night. In fact, more than eighty-five percent of the dreams are not even recalled by the people once they are awakened (Hobson 2004).

The meaning and message of dreams cannot be understood or interpreted by every individual due to the reason that everybody does not have a powerful mind and soul, thus he is not able to clearly perceive the visions of his dreams. In fact, the subconscious fear and desire of an individual are the key components that lead to the dream analysis and elucidation. Therefore, an individual does not even remember his dreams at many occasions. Remembrance or failure to recall the dream is one of the factors that are profoundly reliant upon the sleep and wake-up aspect of the person (Hobson 2004).

The sleeping process and dreaming has a direct relationship to the quality of waking life that incorporates the intellectual sharpness, productivity, creativity, emotional stability, physical strength and even the body weight of a person. This means that the impact of dreams on the overall body functioning of the humans is also one of the grave aspects that cannot be overlooked or ignored. In this regard, numerous researches and investigations have taken place predominantly with the application of the primary research method that has provided a great deal of information with respect to affect of dream and lack of dream on the overall body functioning.

According to one of studies, it has come to notice that a person enters the phase of dreaming from his sleeping time approximately after ninety minutes after he has fallen asleep. However, the analysis of the studies has resulted that a person encounters various physiological changes when he enters in a dream. Rapid eye movement is one of the witnessed changes amongst the people when they enter the phase of dreaming (Harvard Health Publications 2012).

The breathing speed also escalates during dreaming process in comparison to the normal breathing level. Moreover, the dreams also affect the body temperature, heart rate and level of blood pressure of the individual that raise from their normal pace during the time of dreaming. Furthermore, it has also been observed that the arms and leg muscles completely stop working during the time a person is dreaming (Harvard Health Publications 2012).

The brain is also largely affected by the dream sleep procedure as it dominates the memory and learning of an individual in a positive manner. This means that dream sleep or REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is a platform where the brain is refurbished that blends and processes all the gained knowledge and information throughout the day, fortify the memory and would create elements that can boost the mood of the individual during the daytime (Harvard Health Publications 2012).

Another empirical research study has highlighted the piece of information that the memory of the people is likely to get bolstered and strengthened if the people tend to have an appropriate REM sleep and dream. According to the analysis of the study, the connection between sleep and dream on the body functioning has not clearly been understood by the researchers but they have provided evidences that even though body is in a complete relaxed mode but the brains continuously processes and unite the memory during the sleep process (Wilson 2011).

This means that the intellect creates a link and association involving the events occurred during the day, feelings and emotions, and memories. In fact, the phase in which a person is in the REM sleep and dreaming is substantial because the memories and connections are created at this time by the brains that facilitates the individual to remember and recall things in a much better way (Wilson 2011).

Studies have also enlightened the information that if the individual had enough REM sleep and dream, the person would not only have bolstered memory but is more expected to feel boosted, with more energy, active and attentive during the wake time. The energized feeling would also enable the person to engage him in more active things during the daytime activities. In addition, a positive feeling, mood and behavior would also appear as the normal response from the refreshed people (Wilson 2011).

Emotions are also crucial and critical elements for an individual, however, studies have exposed the piece of information that the dreams have the power to influence, affect and bring change in the emotions of an individual. This means that dreams can leaves its impact on to the subconscious mind of a person that can bring in change to the emotions with reference to a particular event or an entire sequence of events (McNamara 2011).

Change in emotions will ultimately lead to affected behaviors and attitudes of the people in their wakeup lives. REM sleeping and dreaming not only plays a significant role on the emotions but moods, behaviors and decisions of the human beings are also extensively affected such that their social interactions with others are considerably shaped by the dreams they see. This fact has been explicated through a number of researches, nevertheless, according to one of the empirical studies, a significant proportion of the respondents have admitted that their dreams substantially influenced their mood and behaviors in their daytime activities and happenings (McNamara 2011).

According to the sources of study, REM sleep and dreams have the powerful and persuasive characteristics that they can manipulate the mood states of an individual when awake. This is principally because when a person is in its REM sleeping state, the emotional segments of the brain are highly activated, which is intensified as a person dreams, thus it is likely to affect the mood of an individual at the daytime. Particular variables that came to vision during dreams have indicated prevailing associations with the mood, behavior and decisions in the daytime. This substantiates that behaviors, mood swings and decisions of an individual throughout the day has a significant influence over dreams (McNamara 2011).

Numerous sources of information have exposed the importance of dreaming and REM sleep with respect to the development and maturity of the body and mind of an individual. According to the analysis of one of the studies, dreaming and REM sleep plays a vital role in the development of the brain and intellect, as the dreams are the platform that facilitates the brain with a source of influential and prevailing stimulation. Additionally, the REM sleep and dreams also smooth the progress of the growth and progression of the nervous system (Serendip 2008).

Moreover, scientists have proved that a connection between dreaming or REM sleep and learning exists because new information captured by an individual is a part of development that is enhanced and matured when a person dreams, as his brains are more active at that time. Pertaining to this assumption, the scientists have gained the insight that REM sleep and dreaming consolidates the memory as well as support in the learning process (Serendip 2008).

Indeed, the dream not only matures the memory consolidation and learning process but the person's ability of recall and remember the information is also facilitated to a great deal. This is typically because learning requires high concentration level that can only be attained through boosted REM sleep. The fact that progress and growth in the learning process is the consequence of escalated REM sleep and dreaming has been exposed from a number of evidences through the research studies. However, it is also crucial to note that REM sleep deprivation acutely damage and impair the ability to learn (Serendip 2008).

Dream sleep or REM sleep has been regarded as a magnificent mechanism by scores of researchers and scientists. According to some schools of thoughts REM sleep and dreaming to an appropriate amount helps in achieving the emotional repairs for an individual, however, too much of REM sleep and dream can prove to exhibit results in an unconstructive manner. Research studies have indicated that in the normal circumstances, people usually forget most of the dreams that they have seen during the REM sleep, because those dreams symbolizes the things that the person has not accomplished in their lives (Pagel 2008).

However, the research also demonstrates that people that have longer intervals of their REM sleep are generally those who experience distress and anxiety during their wake time. Due to their emotional instability, they tend to have more intense dreams during their REM sleep till the time their brains get completely exhausted that eventually results in their distressed behaviors (Pagel 2008).

While looking at the affect of lack of dreaming from various studies, it has also been analyzed that REM sleep and dreaming has a strong affect on learning and memory consolidation to a great extent because the lack of REM sleep damage and worsen these body and mind functions. This is particularly due to the reason that when an individual lacks in REM sleep, he tends to lose his focus, attention, and vigilance drift that results in difficulty and trouble to collect and retrieve the information that one has leaned during the day (Harvard Medical School 2007).

Both mind and body are exhausted that leads to poor functioning and interpretation of information and events. Planning, accessing the situations, having an appropriate behavior, productivity and overall performance are also affected if a person deprives in his REM sleep and dreaming process (Harvard Medical School 2007).

Since the muscles are not relaxed, hence the body organ systems are not even harmonized. Furthermore, the poor learning process amongst the people has been observed because the moods that are negatively affected due to the lack of REM sleep and dreaming, which consolidates the learned information. While on the other hand, the person that undergoes the process of dreaming in the REM sleep has demonstrated to produce high level of mental activity that intensifies during dreaming (Harvard Medical School 2007).

REM sleep deprivation and lack of dreaming has become one of the widespread experiences by numerous people in the today's world of intense competition. In this regard, numerous researches have been carried out that has highlighted the importance and effect of deprived dreaming and REM sleep for the overall body and mind functioning. One of the extensive researches has brought the fact to surface that verbal learning and math problems is an imperative aspect that has witnessed minimum or no activity amongst the people that are lacking in their REM sleep (Lippman 2003).

Verbal learning and math related problems have proved that the brain and memory is extremely active when an individual is involved in this learning practice. Sleep and dream deprived people have demonstrated very low results and poor performances in experiments that engage verbal learning tests. Besides, people with deficient in REM sleep and dreaming work on math related problems but with a much lesser speed and accuracy in contrast to the people that are well-rested and have adequate amount of sleep and dream (Lippman 2003).

This is typically because the brains of sleep deprived people active to a very limited quantity. In addition, it has also been monitored that such people are not able to think, act and cope in a creative and imaginative manner and are likely to perform cyclical tasks. Complicated tasks are also not their choice of preference, which progressively reduces their overall efficiency and productivity. Furthermore, their behavioral patterns are also affected due to their dreams and sleep lacking as they tend to exhibit slow signs of response in voice and actions (Lippman 2003).

Several large-scale investigations that has been conducted on a nationwide basis has brought a fascinating fact to public attention that obesity, which is one of the severe problems of United States has a deep connection to the factor of sleeping and dreaming. This means that the results of the findings elucidates that REM sleep and dreaming deprivation intensely disturb, upset and disrupt the hormones that control the glucose level and appetite of a person (Coon & Mitterer 2008).

Additionally, the research has also presented with the fact that the issue of obesity and REM sleep deficiency has robustly been noticed amongst the young generation and middle-aged adults. Nevertheless, the studies have concluded that due to obesity, people confront physical uneasiness and discomfort that results in diminish likelihood of getting an appropriate REM sleep that leads a person to enter the dream phase. Therefore, this sleep deficit agitates the energy proteins and hormones consequential to unbalanced weight gain and obesity (Coon & Mitterer 2008).

Researches have indicated that lack of dreaming and REM sleep extensively causes the adverse emotional effects on the human beings, as it drives the person on the high risk with respect to his body functioning. The most fundamental emotional effect that has been highlighted in the study that is due to the lack of REM sleep and dreaming is irritability or bad temper. Bad temper gradually converts into mood swings that make the person to penetrate into the state of stress and depression (Russell 2004).

The most common and frequent outcome of such a condition is the creation and production of stress hormones that eventually increases the blood pressure. Higher blood pressure leads to several other diseases that can cause real harm and damage to the life of an individual that includes strokes and heart attacks. Moreover, the REM sleeping and dreaming process gets highly disturbed by the stress hormones that are created in the body. Additionally, this state of depression and stress progressively leads the person to suffer from various emotional and psychological disturbances such as hallucinations on a constant basis (Russell 2004).

Emotional disturbances are not the only adverse affects of lack of dreaming, but the people are also liable to encounter cognitive effects. The propensity increases for the person to suffer from loss of short-term memory, impairment of motor skills, and might even lose concentration level and focus (Russell 2004).