WS+Nightmares

__**A NYT article on Nightmares by my favorite author, Natalie Angier**__ that he was successful in his job "in classical mythology, courtier at the court of Dionysius I. He so persistently praised the power and happiness of Dionysius that the tyrant, in order to show the precariousness of rank and power, gave a banquet and had a sword suspended above the head of Damocles by a single hair. Hence the expression “the sword of Damocles” to mean an ever-present peril." http://www.bartleby.com/65/da/Damocles.html that someone was breaking into his house who was a women and a knife was dangling over his head by a thread she made the man rehearse different alternative to swinging blades and other parts of his dream until the nightmares disappeared Last night, i got cut from the baseball team and i got extremely mad. that the bad dream becomes very realistic in the person mind, "it becomes life-size" 25% of 5-12 of age have nightmares; REM sleep is where there is brain activity and when most dreaming occurs, rapid eye movement, about 3 hours about 60-70% of the time dreaming it becomes more often as the older we get, because of the stress the visual cortex is the main place where dreaming takes place to relieve stress, in a persons life and anything in your mind that needs to be let loose
 * 1. What does it mean to be "gainfully" employed (line 3)?**
 * 2. Look up the word "Damoclesian". What does it mean that the knife dangled with "Damoclesian contempt"?**
 * 3. What did the patient fear at night (2 things)?**
 * 4. How did Dr. Leving help this man?**
 * 5. When is the last time you had a nightmare you remember? Do you mind sharing it? If not, please do so here...**
 * 6. What does she mean when she calls nightmares a "sensorily rich nocturnal roundhouse staffed with characters so persuasive you want to ... strangle them, before they can strangle you."? (paragraph 4)**
 * 7. What percentage of dreams are bad dreams?**
 * 8. What is REM sleep? (You may need to look this up.) What does it stand for? What happens during REM sleep? How much REM sleep do we get in a typical night's sleep?**
 * 9. How much time do we spend dreaming each night?**
 * 10. How does the frequency of nightmares change as we age? (Be specific with ages and number of nightmares)**
 * 11. Which parts of the brain are active during dreaming (Be specific, name the parts and their function)?**
 * 12. What is the possible function of bad dreams? And why are nightmares disfunctional?**