Chapter 4: Dreams-

          "The Royal Road to the Unconscious"

SLEEP! SLEEP! SLEEP!

There’s a saying that states, “Why do we need to spend much time sleeping, where we can have it when we die?” But for me, a dead is dead unlike to someone who’s only sleeping, he still alive. Anyways, did you know that having enough hours of sleep matters a lot? 

Scientists have said that loss of night-time sleep may cause irritability, become moody and lessens interest in doing something. Person’s speech capability slows down and would experience emotional flatness or the tendency to react slowly.

Sleeping is where the mind and body are being refreshed but upon sleeping, there would come ‘the royal road to the unconscious’ which refers to dreaming.

A normal person who sleeps eight hours at night may have a total of about one to two hours of dreaming period and each dream may have different scenes which last within five to 50 minutes.

There were researchers who decided to find out what would happen if they stopped people in dreaming. And their finding says that, people who were not allowed to dream have experienced rapid eye movement frequently while sleeping. They got nervous, easily upset and hungrier the next day.

Researchers were able not to allow their volunteer from dreaming through the use of EEG or the Electroencephalograph. This EEG tells whenever the dream has to occur and that gives the researchers the signal to awaken the person.

And as the people have taken a sleep without interruption, researchers found out that they had more dreams than usual as if they are catching up with their dreams. The following day, their nervousness get lost and felt normal again.