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Epic Interactive Encyclopedia, The - 1998 Edition (1998)(Epic Marketing).iso
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A dream is a series of events or images
perceived through the mind during sleep.
Their function is unknown, but Sigmund Freud
saw them as wish fulfillment (nightmares
being failed dreams prompted by fears of
"repressed" impulses). Dreams occur in
periods of rapid eye movement by the sleeper,
when the cortex of the brain is approximately
as active as in waking hours. Dreams occupy
about a fifth of sleeping time. It is not
uncommon for dreams to happen to early in
sleep, thus causing wakefulness, confusion,
and depression, which suggests that a form of
memory search is involved.
Prevention of dreaming, by taking sleeping
pills, for example, has similar unpleasant
results. For the purposes of (allegedly)
foretelling the future, dreams fell into
disrepute in the scientific atmosphere of the
18th century.
Subject by: Darren Wells