Dream Terminology

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Binaural beats - An auditory phenomenon   created by your brain in response to hearing specific tones in each ear. Early research of the experimental treatment indicates that listening to binaural beats can reduce feelings of anxiety improve your ability to fall asleep. These tones can keep you in stage 3 sleeping longer to extend your dream and sleep time. 

Dream Intention or Dream incubation - is a thought technique which aims for a specific dream topic to occur, either for recreation or to attempt to solve a problem

Déjà Rêvé - Already Dreamed -The sensation of feeling like you dreamed about something before it happened in real life.

Ecstatic Dreams - A dream in which you experience ecstasy or overwhelming joy - sometimes combined with feeling one with the universe.

False awakening - when you are still asleep but believe you are awake doing your daily routine etc.

Guidance Dreams - A dream that provides information that later proves useful in making a decision.

Healing dreams - Healing dreams are dreams where the dreamer can heal themself, someone else or receive information that allows you to do so.

Hypnagogic Experiences or Hallucinations brief hallucinations that take place as you're falling asleep or waking up. They're common and usually nothing to worry about. They're usually visual in nature, such as images of patterns, shapes or flashing lights.

Lucid Dream - being aware that you are dreaming. You can increase your chances of lucid dreaming by asking yourself during the day “Am I awake or dreaming?” during routine actions like checking the time.

Magical Dreams - Dreams in which you exhibit superhuman powers, flying or floating seem common examples. Less commonly, using "the Force" to move objects, bodily transformations (growing or shrinking, changing into a wolf or an eagle), shooting energy beams from your eyes or hands, etc.

Meditation Experiences - Experiences in which you reach into transpersonal dimensions.

 Memory consolidation - is the process where our brains convert short-term memories into long-term ones. Short-term memory tends to be quite limited in terms of duration and capacity. The human brain can only store short-term memories for about 30 seconds, so if you are ever going to remember anything, important information has to be moved into long-term memory.

Meta-cognition in Dreaming, - lack of insight into the fact that one is currently dreaming and the capacity to reflect and to make conscious decisions during dreams

Mutual Dreams - Dreams in which you and another person apparently have the same, or very similar dreams about each other, at the same time. Consensual dreaming.

Nightmares - Nightmares are fear-inducing dreams to get your attention. They can be caused by unresolved issues, diet, programs you have watched etc.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea - This condition, where breathing is disrupted during sleep, may be associated with sleep paralysis.

Out of Body Experiences - sometimes confused with lucid dreams, but with a number of different characteristics. Commonly you experience leaving your physical body and floating outside it. Sometimes these experiences coincide with a physical crisis, such as a severe illness or a NDE (Near Death Experience). Intensely 'real'.

Parasomnias - are disruptive sleep-related disorders. Abnormal movements, talk, emotions and actions happen while you’re sleeping. Examples include sleep terrors, sleepwalking, nightmare disorder, sleep-related eating disorder and sleep paralysis. Treatment usually begins with non-medication options.

Past Life or Parallel Self dreams - Dreams in which you find yourself in an earlier time, or in another place, as a different person who may look nothing at all like what you see when you look in a mirror. May contain historical details not consciously known by you.

Prophetic or Precognitive dreams - to dream of a future event that later comes true as you have foreseen it happening.

Psychic Dreams - a general category for dreams in which any of the varieties of ESP, such as clairvoyance, healing, precognition, psychokinesis, remote viewing, telepathy, etc. manifest.

Psychopompic Dreams - Dreams in which you meet with creatures, spirits, angels, demons, or deities. In Jungian psychology, the Psychopomp is a mediator between the unconscious and conscious realms. It is symbolically personified in dreams as a wise man or woman, or sometimes as a helpful beast.

Recurring dreams - Recurring dreams refer to dreams that we repeatedly experience. Like the same house.

REM sleep is believed to be essential to cognitive functions like memory, learning, and creativity. REM sleep is known for the most vivid dreams, which is explained by the significant uptick in brain activity. Dreams can occur in any sleep stage, but they are less common and intense in the NREM periods.

 Self-Transcendence: Transpersonal psychology emphasizes the idea that individuals have the potential to transcend their limited ego selves and connect with a higher sense of self. This includes experiences of spiritual awakening, peak experiences, and altered states of consciousness.

Sleep inertia - is the feeling of grogginess, disorientation, drowsiness, and cognitive impairment that immediately follows waking. Sleep inertia generally lasts for 15 to 60 minutes but may last for up to a few hours after waking. The biological reason for sleep inertia is unknown. However, researchers hypothesize that sleep inertia is a protective mechanism that helps maintain sleep during moments of unwanted wakings. More

Sleep Paralysis - An overlap between REM and waking stages of sleep. Can happen during waking or falling asleep. You may hallucinate. You are aware but cannot move. These episodes usually last less than a few minutes.

 Isolated Sleep Paralysis: These are one-off episodes not connected to an underlying diagnosis of narcolepsy (a neurological disorder).

 Recurrent Sleep Paralysis: Involves multiple episodes over time and can be associated with narcolepsy.

Spiritual Dreams - in which you experience or gain special insight into the spiritual or religious aspect of life. You may experience meeting guides, angelic or demonic beings, or even friends or family members who have died.

Threat Simulation Theory - Dream rehearsal for identify threats and avoiding the while awake

Vision Dreams - where you experience some 'outside' force showing you a vision (usually on a sort of screen) that seems deeply significant, even if you don't understand it.

 

 

   

 

 

 

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How Consolidation Turns Short-Term Memories Into Long-Term Ones By Kendra Cherry, MSEd https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-memory-consolidation-2795355

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/noise-and-sleep/binaural-beats Can Binaural Beats Help You Fall Asleep? by Jay Summer 

Paranormal Phenomena version 1.0 by E.W. Kellogg III, Ph.D.

 Stages of Sleep by Eric Suni https://www.sleepfoundation.org/stages-of-sleep

 Dreams and Psychedelics: Neurophenomenological Comparison and Therapeutic Implicationshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652011/

Parasomnias: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/12133-parasomnias--disruptive-sleep-disorders