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Monster Essays - Dreams And Dreaming
Dreams and Dreaming
 
  	“ To write something and leave it behing us, 
 		           It is but a dream 
 	                   When we awake we know
 	         There is not even anyone to read it”	Zen Master Ikkyu
 
 	WE dream during a state of sleep called REM sleep. It is known that theta rythems sent from the
 hippocampus, which determine if something is of essential value to the brain, are presesnt during REM sleep. Which
 supports the idea that dreaming is connected to learning and that dreams are very important to the growing process.
 	Sleep is set in cycles, each containing four stages
 	STAGE 1: Light sleep begins- thata waves 
 	STAGE 2: ....
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