Week 7 Neurosci+Art

Week 7: Neuroscience+Art
In this weeks learning we learned how the mind plays a huge role in one humans life. In Professor Vesna's lecture number two she explained how Sigmund Freud in the early 1900's developed the idea that dreams are created in the "unconscious mind". What I found most interesting was that Professor Vesna said that 95% of what we dream is actually forgotten, but where does that go? What I also find very interesting is that even though the unconscious mind is very creative and abnormal, how come we find so many familiar faces or settings from our real life in our dreams?

We unconsciously in our dreams attempt to fix things that might be going wrong in our life hear on earth. A team of researches from France at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center discovered why some people forget some of their dreams while others can remember just more than one while sleeping.

What they found was that the temporoparietal junction is more active while asleep which causes for some people to remember their dreams better. This increased brain activity can cause someone to awake during the night therefore allowing a person to realize they were dreaming. For myself I am not one of these people because I sleep through just about anything and never wake up during the night. The only time I remember my dreams are when I am just about to wakeup in the morning, not dreams throughout the night. This week makes me wonder what dreams that I am missing out on during the night. But, this week has made me want to do more research of dreams and how the brain works.

Works Cited
Edition, Newsweek Special. "How to Control Your Unconscious Mind." Newsweek. N.p., 24 May 2016. Web. 21 May 2017.

Gholipour, Bahar. "Why Some Remember Dreams, Others Don't." LiveScience. Purch, 13 Aug. 2013. Web. 21 May 2017.

Nuwer, Rachel. "Why Some People Always Remember Their Dreams, But Others Never Can."Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian Institution, 19 Feb. 2014. Web. 21 May 2017.

Prigg, Mark. "Why Can You Remember Your Dreams? Researchers Uncover Why Only Some People Can Recall Them in the Morning." Daily Mail Online. Associated Newspapers, 19 Feb. 2014. Web. 21 May 2017.

"The Subconscious Mind and Dreams, What's the Connection." The Subconscious Mind and Dreams. What's the Connection? | 2KnowMySelf. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 May 2017.

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