Allen Hobson states that dreaming is our subjective awareness of the brains internally generated signals during sleep. Dring J. Allen Hobsons research he found that during sleep the brain areas responsible for outgoing motor signals and incoming sensory signals are inactive keeping the dreamer from acting out or responding to their dreams. While these areas are inactive during sleep other areas fire rapidly as if the dreamer were awake. the areas that are active during sleep are responsible for emotions, memories, movements and sensations.
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The prefrontal cortex responsible for logical, rational, and planning functions are one of the areas that are inactive this is very strong evidence of why many people make the claim of dreams not making sense, and jumping from location to location. A nightmare is a vivid and disturbing dream that awakens the sleeper; the typical scenarios played through a nightmare usually consist of feeling helpless or powerless, being attacked, or pursued.
Although fear, anxiety, and terror are the most commonly expressed many nightmares involve many other intense feelings such as sadness, anger, disgust, and embarrassment. Its my belief that dreams do have quite an emotional insight on the dreamers habits of mind. The brain is made up of a web of neurons that interact with each other controlling our every thought, every movement, and every sensory perception. Each time your brain sends its chemical signal it arouses a specific series or chain of neurons, the frequency of action between these neurons determines the strength of the relationship between them.
This could explain why nightmares occur more often when the subject is under stress. I also find it strange that J. Allen Hobson, and Freud pay little attention to the fact that serotonin, and norepinephrine are two neurotransmitters responsible for sleep. Serotonin and Norepinephrine are not only both responsible for sleep but depression, and stress two major themes in nightmares. I would really enjoy studying the sleeping brain activity more to see if possibly I could find a reason for dreams and their contents.
