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Dreams, Nightmares and Night Terrors

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Dreams and Nightmares
Dreams, nightmares, night terrors, trips into the subconscious that occur while we sleep.
RBD and Degenerative Diseases
Sleep specialists at the Mayo Clinic have found that patients diagnosed with RBD develop degenerative brain disorders by approximately 11 years after diagnosis. These diseases include Parkinson's Disease and dementia.
Sleep On It
Got a problem? Need to come up with a creative idea for work or a plot for your novel? Think it over, then go to bed and sleep on it. [p] It works. Ask David Somers, a professor of psychology at Boston University. His work leads him into exploring how the brain works. Somers read the book, [I]"A Treasure's Trove"[/I] and began focusing on finding the solution.
A Closer Look At Dreaming
I think the majority of people suffer from at least one, and sometimes several, recurring dreams - the same dream, over and over, night after night. All these dreams usually reflect something that's going on in your life.
The Dream World
A recent discovery written up in the Annals of Neurology tells of a patient who suffered a mild stroke that affected only a minute section of the brain. Damage to this section of the brain can impair vision, and that is what happened to this patient. A short time later, however, the vision problems cleared up. But then the patient discovered another change. She no longer had dreams.
Sleep and Creativity
When do you get your best ideas? When you're up tight, faced with a deadline and under a lot of pressure? A poll conducted by the East of England Development Agency revealed that most creativity, most new ideas, come to workers, not in the workplace, but in a more relaxing environment.
The Dreaming Life
Dreams have been with us since the beginning of time. There's no proof of this, but I'd bet the cavemen dreamed of woolly mammoths, saber tooth tigers and dragging some pretty girl off by her hair.
Sleep, Dreams and the Animal Kingdom
Anybody who owns a pet knows that animals dream. Paws quiver, tails twitch, voices mutter. Animals also suffer from sleep disorder - narcolepsy and sleep apnea. And four black-and-white rats at MIT are helping researchers find the connection.
Dreaming
Dreams, nightmares, night terrors. They all disrupt sleep and often cause groggy days and a great deal of yawning. But mankind has put the dream disorders to some good use over the ages. It would be a duller world if we didn't have our dreams.
Hypno Talk and Dream Control
The Basis for learning dream control begins with Dream Recall. Everybody dreams at night. Maybe you don’t remember your dreams when you wake up in the morning but, you typically, in an 8 hour night of sleeping have around 5 or 6 dreams. Dreaming is similar to being in hypnosis, only you are much deeper.

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