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= How Long Do Dreams Last? =

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Do you ever wonder how long your dreams last? Well, they usually last for up from 5 to 45 minutes. You might not feel like they actually last that long but they do! I never thought that they lasted that long. I had heard from someone that dreams last for only 10 seconds. I didn't really believe that until I did some research and found out that isn't really true. If dreams only lasted 10 seconds we wouldn't be able to see anything because ten seconds past very fast. In my opinion dreams are really great. During dreams you can go anywhere you wish. I also found out that if you tell someone your dreams and saying them might take a long time then, your dreams were probably just as long.
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No one ever thinks that your first dream could be something that happened a year ago. After, that maybe you see something that happened to you recently. Then, in your mind you mix them together and you get your dreams.I had a dream that was pretty long once. I tried telling my mom what I had seen in my dreams but it took almost an HOUR to tell her! Can you believe it? I once heard a song on my brother's phone that he had as an alarm and when I heard it I saw that I went to that person's concert and i was hearing them sing the song. AMAZING huh?I interviewed my cousin which she studies dreams and things like that and she said that the best way that you can see how much time a dream takes up or how long a dream lasts is to have record how long you were seeing images in your head.

SEARCH
My cousin studies dreams. She is interested in them so she most likely knows how long they last. Well, I saw her today and I asked her. She says that they usually last around 5-45 minutes. I really do believe that. She told me that she has tried to time how long her dreams lasted but, she didn't get any sleep that night. She had to wake up almost every hour or so to write down/record everything that she saw. She also told me to try to do that but I said no.

I had to get my sleep every night. My cousin also told me that people dream in black and white but now people don't really think that really happens anymore. Now more people start saying that they see colors in dreams. I was amazed when I found that out. I usually dream in black and white. But, sometimes I see in color. Do you think that when people snore they are really dreaming? Not really. When people are snoring they AREN'T sleeping. Amazing huh? You can dream stuff that were from a year ago. If you mix that up with something that happened recently and you are left with the rememberance of a dream that lasted a year.

Yahoo don't really give me much information. How stuff works does. It was the best website that helped me find the information about how long dreams last. I learned that when people are sleeping their eyes don't stop moving. You feel that they stop moving because your eyes are closed but that doesn't matter. I always thought that they don't move but if you search something you find stuff. Dreams are amazing but sometimes you can't understand them. You actually have to think about what you saw and try to figure out what that meant. I have had the same dreams over and over again and I still don't know what they mean. My cousin and mom say that if you see kids in your dreams you are going to have sadness in your life. My mom saw my baby cousin crying in her dream and after two days my cousins grand-mother in Greece died. That was a very sad moment in our lives. I was really close to that woman because she was really nice. She had a nice heart. Dreams can make you sad, happy, maybe even richer.(HAHAHA!!)

CONCLUSION
So...... dreams can last a long time. You can have dreams about anything that you want. If you keep thinking of something then you are most likely to have a dream that connects to that. I once was thinking of a test that i had to take the next day and my dream was that I took the test and I failed. The next day when i did take the test I didn't really feel confident about what I had done on the test. After, five days I got the test back and I was really close to failing but I didn't. I was SO scared.

Throughout the whole research I feel that I have learned a lot about how long dreams last. I have always wondered how long dreams lasted but, now I feel confident about what I figured out. I will try to record my dreams whenever I can during the summer since I don't have school and I will need to keep waking up. If i have any progress I will record that in my notebook that I have. You can even try to record your dreams. But try to do it during the summer or vacation when you don't have to wake up early.

WORK CITED
Obringer, Lee Ann. "Dreams Work." __Howstuffwork__. 9 Apr. 2008 < [|http://health.howstuffworks.com/dream3.htm>.] Obringer, Lee Ann. "Dream Recall." __How Stuff Work__. 15 Apr. 2008 [|] Obringer, Lee Ann. "Dreaming and the Brain." __How Stuff Work__. 14 Apr. 2008 [|.]||