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What is a nightmare?
A disturbing dream that causes you to wake up feeling anxious and frightened.
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What is a dream?
Images and imagery, thoughts, sounds and voices, and subjective sensations experienced when we sleep.
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Who is Sigmund Freud?
He believed that the problems of his patients stemmed from conflicts and events that had been buried in their unconscious minds since childhood.
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What is the pons?
When damaged, can cause the loss of the subjective experience of dreaming.
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What is a parent?
A person in a child's most occurring nightmare.
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What is a progressive dream?
Occur when you have a sequence of dreams that continue over a period of nights.
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What is rapid eye movement (REM)?
A type of sleep where the person falls into a deep sleep and starts dreaming.
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What is the continual-activation theory?
The idea that our brains are always storing memories regardless of whether we're awake or asleep.
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What is your right side of the brain?
The side that dreams are controlled by.
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What is slow-wave sleep (SWS)?
When a child wakes up from a bad nightmare and they are very scared and emotional.
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What is a signal dream?
Help you how to solve problems or make decisions in your waking life.
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When do dreams occur?
When the brain tries to interpret random signals.
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What is the reverse learning theory?
The idea that we dream to get rid of undesirable connections and associations that build up in our brains throughout the day.
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What is stage 1?
The sleep stage where you just fell asleep.
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What is a lucid dream?
When you realize you are dreaming in the middle of sleep.
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What is Oneirology?
The study of dreams.
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What is projection?
This happens when the dreamer propels their own desires and wants onto another person.
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What is stage 4?
The dream stage where pulse, breathing, and brain activity is the slowest.
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What is a day dream?
Classified as a level of consciousness between sleep and wakefulness.
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What is sleep walking?
Another word for Somnambulism.
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What is the ego?
The aspect of the mind that is concerned with the conscious, the rational, the moral and the self-aware aspect of the mind.
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What is monoamine oxidase?
The inhibitory drug that inhibits dreaming.
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