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Bethany Weldon
Elliot
Psychology 200
4 December 2001
The Fascinating World of Dreams
“Perhaps no other phenomenon of human existence has held such fascination as dreams” (Phillips 7). Almost everyone has experienced dreams at some point in their lives, and for good reason. ... People spend so much of their lives asleep, and yet very little is known about the sleep cycle or how dreams occur. ...
Dreams have had a great impact on culture and history. ... , Plato recognized that our irrational wild beast nature could peer out in dreams” (Van de Castle 111). Although Freud’s book The Interpretation of Dreams actually appeared in print in 1899, at his request the publication data was given as 1900 in order to give the impression that his views were not linked to those of the harbingers of the new twentieth-century thinking. ... The other is a decoding method in which dreams are considered as a form of cryptography in which each sign can be treated as another sign in accordance with a fixed key. ... The major exceptions are dreams. ... Most dreams occur during REM sleep, with several different dreams occurring in each REM episode. Given the usual four or five REM periods per night, about twenty different dreams can occur during a night of sleep, allowing continuation of sleep without danger of being awakened by anxious thought.
Approximate Word count = 1022
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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