November 17th, 2010

Today in class we watched a movie. We had a choice to either watch a movie on dreams, origami, or the Mayan civilization. We voted and ended up watching the movie on dreams entitled, "What Are Dreams", by Nova. This documentary showed us scientifically what dreams are and also gave distinctions between two particular dream states, rem dreams and non rem dreams. Rem dreams are when you are in a very deep sleep, the dreams seem a little more complex, and unreal oppose to non rem dreams that can occur during light sleep which are usually affected and re plays of what you experienced that day. When awaken out of a rem sleep one is more likely to feel negative feelings and respond angrily oppose to being woken up out of a rem sleep. There have been many studies with both animals and people to further increase our knowledge of what dreams are, why we have them, and how they relate to conditions such as depression. I found the film very interesting and informing. However, I wish they would have discussed the meaning of dreams and went over the spiritual aspects of dreams.