Dreams

               Most of the people comment about how sleeping is so difficult to them or that they have insomnia. Well, I suppose that the advanced technology that we have at our disposal now in days have impacted some people’s sleeping hours turning them into horrible nights of pain. But I wonder this all my life… why do we dream? Do we always dream? With all the experiments made, they concluded that we dream to recharge the brain and yes, indeed we always dream just that most of the time we don’t remember. Sleeping enables the brain opportunity to recognize data to help solution problems and process newly information and information received months and days ago. Some facts I didn’t knew about dreams is that there are four different stages when your body is resting. The stage in which you are actually dreaming is REM which is a kind of sleep that occurs at intervals during the night and is characterized by rapid eye movements, more dreaming and bodily movement, and faster pulse and breathing. I didn’t knew that sleep lowers a person’s metabolic rate and energy consumption, body has a chance to replace chemicals and repair muscles, cardiovascular system rests, and that growth hormones are released while we sleep. Its incredible to know we spend 1/3 of our lives sleeping! 

Sensory Deprivation

At the beginning of the video I didn’t knew anything about what sensory deprivation was. Now I know it is a process, which deprives someone of normal external stimuli such as sight and sound for an extended period of time. Imagine how would it be if you could see, smell, taste, touch or hear? AWFULL.

This way of being is sensory deprivation on most cases. Reducing the mental ability to process information is part of the harsh treatment on people with sensory deprivation, though it is known to have an impact on memory, language, social interaction, and vision. Scientists use this experimental technique in to prove these effects it has on people. On this video “alone”, six individuals volunteer them selves for scientists to make their experiment that took 48 hours. These people were locked in individual dark rooms with no one to talk to and they were being recorded throughout their isolation and suffering. Some walked back and forth after several hours, another was hallucinating things that were not there, and they began to talk in a hilarious way. This is all cause of a lack of stimulation. In my opinion we all need to be grateful for who we are since we have no problems with our body and we complain about insignificant things while others are really suffering.

Synesthesia

1. Synesthesia

“A condition in which the real information collected by one sense results additionally in a sensation or perception in a sense other than the one being stimulated. Thus, sounds can be perceived to have colors, colors can be perceived to have taste or smell, etc.”






2. Grapheme-color synesthesia

“Grapheme → color synesthesia is a form of synesthesia in which an individual's perception of numbers and letters is associated with the experience of colors. Like all forms of synesthesia, grapheme → color synesthesia is involuntary, consistent, and memorable. It is one of the most common type of synesthesia and one of the most studied as well.”

3.Ordinal-linguistic personification   

"Ordinal-linguistic personification is a form of synesthesia in which ordered sequences, such as ordinal numbers, days, months and letters are associated with personalities."  

4. Number-form synesthesia

"Number-form synesthesia consciously experience numbers in spatially defined locations. For non-synesthetic individuals, a similar association of numbers and space appears in the form of an implicit mental number line as signified by the distance effect–reaction time decreases as the numerical distance between compared numbers increases."




5. Sound-color synesthesia

"Is when individuals experience colors as a response to music/sounds."   

     6.Lexical-gustatory synesthesia

"Lexical → gustatory synesthesia is one of the unusual forms of synesthesia, in which spoken or written words evoke vivid sensations of taste, sometimes including temperature and textures."

http://www.untitledtheater.com/glossary.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme–color_synesthesia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_linguistic_personification

http://undacovabear.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/sound-colour-synesthesia/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical-gustatory_synesthesia