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Nightmares

Nightmares. Anne Linden. Stages of Sleep. Stage One Am I actually Sleeping? Stage Two Light Sleep Stage Three First introduced to REM sleep May be disoriented when awakened Stage Four Deep REM sleep Dreaming most likely to occur. What’s Happening to My Brain?.

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Nightmares

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  1. Nightmares Anne Linden

  2. Stages of Sleep • Stage One • Am I actually Sleeping? • Stage Two • Light Sleep • Stage Three • First introduced to REM sleep • May be disoriented when awakened • Stage Four • Deep REM sleep • Dreaming most likely to occur

  3. What’s Happening to My Brain? • Part of brainstem is paralyzing body • Prefrontal cortex is on break • Rational thought is gone • Amyglada • Emotional responses triggered • Lack of quick decision making • Hippocampus • Recreating explicit memories

  4. Causes of Nightmares • Memories • Brain making emotional connections • Stress and anxiety • Age

  5. Common Nightmares • Chase or attack: What part of myself am I hiding or refusing to accept? • Falling (often towards death, it seems): am I feeling heavy, unsupported, worried/fearful about something? • Car out of control: is life too hectic, out of control? • Unprepared/late for or failing an exam: am I feeling unprepared for some upcoming event? Unconfident about my performance? • Stuck in slow motion, unable to move or make any noise: where am I feeling stuck in life, like I'm getting nowhere or unable to voice my true feelings? • Embarrassed to be nude in public: where in life am I feeling unconfident, embarrassed, unskilled? • Personal injury, dismemberment: what part of my life-not usually the physical body-have I been neglecting, mistreating, forgetting? • Trapped, locked in: where am I feeling trapped in life? • Drowning, threatening waves, or flooding: am I blocking, denying or feeling overwhelmed by my emotions or feeling very vulnerable? • Webb, Craig. Bad Dreams or Nightmares Bring Valuable Messages. DREAMS Foundation, n.d. IConn. Web. 6 Dec. 2012. <http://www.byregion.net/articles-healers/Nightmares.html>.

  6. How to Stop Nightmares • Understand the deeper meaning behind what the dream is trying to tell you • Correcting aspect of life that is causing trouble • Giving happy ending to recurring nightmare

  7. Citations of Pictures: • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Gray726-Brodman-prefrontal.svg/300px-Gray726-Brodman-prefrontal.svg.png Prefrontal Cortex picture • http://www.web-books.com/MoBio/Memory/images/fig5_1.gif Hippocampus picture • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Amyg.png/128px-Amyg.png Amyglada picture

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