Sleep Focus

Dreams are fascinating. They mix thoughts, images, and sensations often occurring during sleep. Each night, when we close our eyes, our minds enter a different realm. But what are dreams? Are they just random brain activity, or do they hold deeper meanings? The scientific community has studied this for years. During sleep, our brains cycle through different stages. The most vivid dreams usually happen during the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) stage. According to a report in The National Academies Press (NAP), we spend about 20-25% of our sleep in REM . This is when our brains are most active, almost resembling the awake state, yet our bodies are paralyzed to prevent us from acting out our dreams. The average person spends about two hours dreaming each night. Yet, despite dreaming for such a long time, we remember only a fraction of our dreams. A study from the National Sleep Foundation found that people forget 95-99% of their dreams upon waking. Dreams are fleeting, quickly fading from our...

  Have you ever wondered what your body is capable of doing while you are asleep? Sleepwalking is one of the strangest phenomena, where people can perform activities they don’t even remember. In some cases, sleepwalkers engage in such bizarre behaviour that it almost seems unbelievable. Take the case of Kenneth Parks , for example, a man who unknowingly committed murder while sleepwalking. Sleepwalking, also called somnambulism , occurs during the deeper stages of sleep, particularly Non-Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) sleep. During this phase, a person is not fully awake but can move, talk, and even navigate familiar spaces. But what if someone didn’t just wander around the house? What if they did something so extreme that it left both doctors and scientists baffled? One evening in 1987, Kenneth Parks, a 23-year-old Canadian man, went to bed just like any other night. He had been under significant stress due to financial troubles, but nothing seemed particularly out of the ordinary...