Persuasive Essay About Dreams

We experience them every night when we fall asleep in our comfortable beds and we giggle and ponder about them with our friends the next morning. Dreams are unique experiences that we, as humans, have the opportunity to enjoy. Yes, they may be mysterious in the sense that we never quite know where they come from, but dreams allow us to take a step back from reality and enter our subconscious. In my essay, I will discuss how God communicates to us through our dreams as well as the science behind why we dream, and lastly the different stages of sleep. God constructs all dreams individually. Since each one of us is different, God must create different ways to display his specific messages. For example, in Genesis 37:5-10 God creates a dream to warn Joseph of his brothers, “Listen to this dream I had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.” (.1.) This is a

During REM sleep, our eyes move rapidly and our brain waves revert back to its activity of when we are in our waking state. “The eyes remain closed, but move rapidly from side-to-side, perhaps related to the intense dream and brain activity that occurs during this stage” (.6.) This is when we begin to dream. Dreams occur during this stage because our brains again becomes so active. In addition, if woken during REM sleep, one will be able to remember their vivid dream. Along this note, “a person may dream up to 4 to 6 times each night and according to a French study found that all people do in fact dream, whether they remember their dreams or not” (.7.). Going back to the idea of the brain resuming back to its vigorous self, the muscles do not follow. Muscle paralysis is very common during this stage of sleep and many scientists have come to the conclusion that this is a mechanism genetically created to help prevent us from acting out our dreams and hurting