This document discusses dreams and provides information on what dreams are, the sleep cycle, facts about dreams, different types of dreams, and the importance of dreaming. It explains that dreams occur during REM sleep and involve images, ideas, emotions and sensations. The sleep cycle involves 4 stages that last 90-120 minutes and repeats 3-5 times per night. Facts provided include that dreaming takes up around 6 years of a person's life and animals also dream. The different types of dreams discussed are daydreams, lucid dreams, nightmares, recurring dreams, and epic dreams.

1. DREAMS
By Ahmed Khamis & Rokaia Ahmed.

2. CONTENTS:
• What is a dream?
• The sleep cycle.
• Facts about dreams.
• Types of dreams.
• The Importance of Dreaming.

3. WHAT IS A DREAM ?
• Sequence of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that
occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.

4. THE SLEEP CYCLE
• The sleep cycle comprises of four stages and lasts for about 90120 minutes.

5. • Stage 1:
From 5 to 10 minutes, the body and muscles start to relax.
• Stage 2:
Your brain activity, heart rate and breathing start to slow down.
you're beginning to reach a state of total relaxation .

6. • Stage 3:
You get deeper into sleep.
• Stage 4:
Stage of sleep when you dream. It is also referred to as "active
sleep" or REM sleep.

7. The sleep cycle repeats itself on an average of 3 to 5 times per
night, may repeat as many as 7 times.
This is how a person dreams several times in one night.

9. FACTS ABOUT DREAMS…

10. • When you dream, your body faces some changes. Your adrenaline
rises, your blood pressure increases, and your heart beats faster.
• During a typical lifetime, people spend an average of six years
dreaming.
• 12% of people only dream in black and white.

11. • Sleep might be disturbed during the night but the mind interprets
the disturbance and makes it a part of a dream.
• Five minutes after the end of the dream, 50% of the content is
forgotten, after ten minutes 90% is forgotten.
• Animals also Dream.

12. TYPES OF DREAMS
• Daydreams.
• Lucid dreams.
• Nightmares.
• Recurring dreams.
• Epic dreams.

13. DAYDREAMS
• Day dreaming occurs when you are
half awake, and it is the imagining
or remembering of images or
experiences in the past or future.

14. LUCID DREAMS
• Lucid dreams occur when you
realize you are dreaming. the
dreamer can reassure him/herself
that it is only a dream and that he
or she will soon awaken

15. NIGHTMARES
• A nightmare is a disturbing dream that
causes you to wake up feeling
anxious and frightened.
•
Nightmares may also occur because
you have ignored or refused to accept
a particular life situation.

16. RECURRING DREAMS
• Recurring dreams repeat
themselves with little variation in
story or theme. These dreams
may be positive, but most often
they are nightmarish in content.

17. EPIC DREAMS
• They are so memorable and vivid,
that we simply cannot ignore them.
It’s details remain in your memory for
years, as if you’ve dreamt it last
night

18. THE IMPORTANCE OF DREAMING !!

19. REFERENCES:
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream
• http://io9.com/10-theories-that-explain-why-we-dream-897195110
• http://www.better-sleep-better-life.com/five-stages-of-sleep.html
• http://www.easynight.org/types-of-dreams/facts-about-dreams.htm
• http://psychology.about.com/od/statesofconsciousness/tp/facts-abo
ut-dreams.htm
• http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/types-of-dreams.html