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Name: The Mind at Night
Rating: 4.3 (79 reviews)
Author: Andrea Rock

Andrea Rock

The New Science of How and Why We Dream

4.3 (79 Bewertungen)

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What’s in it for me? Learn the true importance of sleep.

Many of us pulled all-nighters in college while cramming for exams or writing a last-minute paper – and, probably, it was no big deal. As we get older, though, it becomes more obvious how devastating a messed-up sleep schedule can be. Indeed, a sleepless night often leaves us feeling frazzled, sad and slightly out of control.

But why is this, exactly? What does our brain do while we’re asleep? You might be surprised to learn that, far from being turned off, it’s as active as when we’re awake, and that sleep and dreams are an essential part of our survival and self-understanding.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

what depressed people’s dreams are like;
that dreams provide insights into real problems; and
how to train yourself to fly.

We journey through a cycle of five stages of sleep every night.

Considering that we spend a third of our life asleep, it makes sense to know about what’s going on when we’re sleeping.

It all starts with a period of pre-sleep, when our mind settles down, stops trying to make decisions and plans, and enters an almost meditative state to prepare the mind for sleep.

From there, we enter light sleep, which covers the first two stages.

During the first stage, or sleep onset as it’s known, we often see flashes of disjointed images, known as hypnagogic imagery. This is the brain’s way of sorting through the day’s experiences and deciding what to trash and what to stash. Some things get forgotten, while others are deemed important enough to store in our long-term memory.

Then stage two begins and our brain winds down further to make way for the stages of deep sleep that follow.

These deep third and fourth sleep stages are characterized by slow brain waves, and we generally cycle through the first stages once again before arriving at the fifth and final stage, which is marked by REM – or rapid eye movement – sleep.

It takes between fifty and seventy minutes to get through the first four sleep stages, and the REM period can be as short as ten minutes. So, altogether, the process lasts about ninety minutes, with the combined stages of deep sleep and REM usually accounting for a quarter of our total sleep during any given night.

While all five stages have their own important functions, it’s at the fifth REM stage when we experience our most vivid dreams and when our mind goes through its internal processes.

In the blinks that follow, we’ll take a closer look at how important these dreams have been and continue to be.

The unique characteristics of REM sleep are brought on by physiological changes in the brain.

Dreaming can occur at any time while we’re asleep – but dreams are at their most intense during REM because our emotions also become involved at this stage.

In this fifth stage of sleep, the limbic system, which is home to our emotional memory, becomes 15 percent more active than when we’re awake.

Our ability to practice skills, and to be aware that we’re dreaming, has made dreams a valuable tool.

Many people attempt to interpret their dreams and infuse them with meaning and significance. This can be a fruitful activity. But beyond potentially providing insight into our emotional lives, dreams also allow us to evolve as a species.

By enabling us to practice our survival skills, dreams have kept us learning and adapting, millennium after millennium.

Sleeping and dreaming is a time for us to continue learning and solving life’s problems.

Sleep is generally considered one of the best ways to take a break from working, but, as far as our brains are concerned, sleep isn’t time off.

When we fall asleep at night, it’s time for the brain to get busy storing the information we’ve learned during the day in the memory bank.

Dreams serve as a form of self-therapy, but depression can keep this from happening.

You don’t have to interpret your dreams, or even remember them, in order to benefit from them. Simply dreaming keeps the mind emotionally healthy.

If you’ve ever experienced a psychotherapy session, you probably know that part of this treatment involves connecting a current negative emotion with a past event that led to a similar feeling. Since this is exactly what happens in dreams, dreaming could be seen as a form of self-therapy.

Dreams can be enlightening and inspiring, especially when you achieve lucid dreaming.

Many artists have turned to their dreams for inspiration, and others were just lucky enough to remember a particularly striking moment.

Paul McCartney has often explained how shocked he was to have come up with the melody for the song “Yesterday” in a dream. At first, he believed he’d dreamed about it because he’d heard it elsewhere first while he was awake.

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Worum geht es in The Mind at Night?

The Mind at Night (2004) provides valuable insight into the mystery of the dream world. Find out exactly how busy our minds are while we slumber, and discover the many physiological, psychological and evolutionary advantages that dreaming gives us.

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A properly functioning dreaming system may actually be more effective than [some] forms of psychotherapy...

—Andrea Rock

Wer The Mind at Night lesen sollte

Anyone who’s ever kept a dream journal
Students of neuroscience or psychology
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Über den Autor

Andrea Rock is an investigative journalist who has won a number of awards, including the National Magazine Award and the Investigative Journalist and Editors Award.

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