Part one of term paper
Most of us dream four to five times a night during periods of rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep, which interrupt deep sleep at approximately 90-minute intervals. Since REM sleep and it's link to dreaming were discovered in 1953, much has been learned about the changes in the brain state that triggers . We now know that the brain alternates ...

Part two of term paper
... and control our thoughts and behavior. When we're asleep, acetylcholine - producing cells in the lower brain trigger bursts of electrical activity that radiate up to the cortex, which makes sense of these signals by reaching into it's memory file for images, information and experiences and weaving them into a story (Kopecky,76). Psychiatrist and philosopher Gordon Globus of the University of California at Irvine, says to determine what kinds of stories they are and to figure out what they can tel ...