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Written by students around the world 13th Edition January 2021 Education in Times of Pandemic by Abril Castillo Camacho Picture by Abril Castillo Camacho TemplatesForTeachers.com 1 A clear reason to explain why this happens The cannot be provided; we all experience kind Is Fear Good of similar dreams. Some of these are the ones when we are suddenly naked in front Powerful of a group of people, or the one when you For Us? have an important exam the following day Art of and you dream you oversleep, forget to by Jesmean Kaur study, or go blank. The naked in public one Dreaming usually means social anxiety and shame, Ask any person in this world if there while the failing exam one has nothing but a is something they fear, and you'll positive meaning, as it generally occurs certainly receive a definite answer. by Fernando when you prepare well for an exam and you They might say they are scared of Jaraquemada García have high hopes of passing. animals, things, or even some kinds of experiences. But what is exactly de Leyaristy Other kinds of dreams worth describing are fear? According to the Cambridge nightmares and recurring dreams. When it Dictionary, "fear is an unpleasant There can be no doubt that dreams are comes to nightmares, we must make a emotion or thought that you have such a fascinating topic which everyone difference between two very disparate when you are frightened or worried is curious about. However, they are not categories: The metaphoric ones, being by something dangerous, painful, or always given the importance they have, more common in children, are the typical bad that is happening or might as some usually view them as childhood nightmare where monsters and happen." insignificant and irrelevant. If you are witches appear, those scary and terrifying. one of those, hopefully this article can The other ones are post-traumatic President Franklin Roosevelt change your point of view. nightmares, which tend to reproduce a famously affirmed, "The only thing traumatic event you have gone through and we have to fear, is fear itself." This When it comes to clarifying why we didn’t overcome yet. statement is plausibly right: the fear dream, there is always a great deal of of fear definitely causes more heated debate among psychologists. Recurrent dreams are the other remarkable problems in our lives than the thing Some of them, such as Harvard professor kind of dreams. These are the kind of we are scared of itself. However, Deirdre Barret, one of the world’s top dreams which repeat over and over even this emotion shouldn’t necessarily experts in the topic, believes that we with the passing of years and remain be considered a negative emotion; have REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. practically unchanged. To analyze them and in fact, a little dose of it can help us This is the stage of sleep when most to understand their meaning will certainly to grow and improve ourselves. dreams take place, due to various help the dreamer resolve problems they reasons. The fact that all mammals carry may have been carrying with them for out this sleep stage tells us that there are years. President Franklin Roosevelt biological reasons for dreaming. “ However, this cannot explain why As it is said in the title, dreams have some famously affirmed, dreams have been around for such a long sort of power in our lives; they are able to "The only thing we have to time, so functional reasons might be make a real impact on our life. As discussed involved. For example, a lot of solutions before, they are just a reflection of our to real-life problems can be included in thoughts and feelings, so they can be the fear, is fear itself."” dreams, and hidden feelings and fears key to get the answer to our problems, are exposed or overcome when worries, and knowing ourselves better. dreaming, but we will go through these However, the crux of the matter is in fact to According to a study made by Coventry aspects later. remember what you dreamed. University (UK), fear temporarily boosts your immunity system. It also increases The meaning of dreams is another issue Fortunately, some tips can be used. adrenaline, which helps to alleviate that causes controversy in the Although it may seem strange, the first tip diseases such as depression. This psychology field. It is widely accepted is to get more sleep. This will lead to having feeling can also give people a natural that not every dream has a clear more REM stages, which will be getting high and a sense of empowerment. explanation, especially in non-REM longer and longer each time they repeat. When we are frightened, our body stages, when they are sometimes So, the first REM stage could last some releases other chemicals such as non-sense and weird. However, some minutes whereas the fourth or fifth more serotonin, which helps our brain to studies have shown that we can point than an hour, meaning that the more you work more efficiently. Moreover, fear out a big difference between the REM sleep, the longer they will be. The second can help us manage stress, and it can stage and other stages. On the one hand, tip also sounds ridiculous, but it has been also relax us; in fact, anxiety is dreams, which consolidate sentimental proved effective. It is to tell yourself before fear-based. In these cases, our body TemplatesForTeachers.com and emotional memories, are usually going to sleep, “I want to remember my and brain are attacked with adrenaline those dreamed at the REM stage, which dreams” again and again, and you will wake and dopamine, which speed up our also, if profoundly analyzed, have a up the next morning remembering for sure heart rate and blood pressure to problem-solving behavior. Whereas on more dreams than usual. prepare us to face that specific the other hand, the ones which help condition. consolidate simple and straightforward In light of the above, the conclusion to be memories are dreamed at all the other drawn is that not only do we have to pay We can see how fear can also have a stages. What is more interesting is that attention to dreams, but also to analyze good impact on our lives and not some dreams can even lead to great them and try to figure out what their necessarily a negative influence; for this real-life ideas, such as the structure of meaning is, and realizing if they have one or reason, we should accept and benzene (an organic molecule) or the not. Although you may not believe it, this incorporate it into our daily lives sewing machine, both dreamed by their can make a sweeping change in your life. because we can't remove it. discoverer and inventor. 2 Black Holes: Secrets Uncovered by Diego Nunes We are entering the golden age “ There are two other types of black holes known: of Black Holes” Supermassive Black Holes. These large black holes can have a mass ranging from 10 to 100 billion times the size of our sun. They are similar to the small black holes, but they reach -Juan García Bellido, Universidad Autónoma these sizes because there is a lot of mass inside the de Madrid, Fisica Teorica, Faculty Member galaxy to which they are attaching, and they can accumulate unlimited amounts of matter; in other Astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology; these broad fields are in constant evolution. Studying words, they become denser bodies as their mass such distant processes presents great difficulty, increases. Such holes can be found in the center of but these science fields advance not only with many galaxies, including the Milky Way. theories but also with technological improvements that allow researchers to look into the universe. Primordial Black Holes. These are black holes formed in the first fractions of a second after the big bang, with This is the time when scientists are beginning to such a high concentration of matter in space, it would receive discoveries and data that gives us a have collapsed under its weight and produced holes of coherent image of the nature of black holes. different masses. The smaller ones are supposed to have disappeared, but But, what's a black hole? some would have accumulated enough mass to be part of the center of galaxies today. It has also been They are the remains of ancient stars, so dense proposed that their number may be so high that it could that no other material particle, even light, can explain the origin of dark matter (invisible matter escape from their great gravitational force. believed to have acted as a seed for galaxy formation Many stars end up as white or brown dwarfs or and to have caused stars and galaxies to move faster neutron stars. Similarly, black holes are the last than visible matter allows). For now, it is only a hypothesis, and we are waiting for it to be confirmed or phase of the evolution of large stars that were at refuted. least 10 to 15 times the sun’s size. Its formation is part of a supernova (the Some of the latest discovers are: explosion of a supermassive star). The remains of this They're everywhere. cataclysm do not Any galaxy can contain a supermassive black hole. exercise resistance to gravity. Hence, Always proportionate. the star begins to Black holes grow alongside their galaxies; the larger the withdraw on itself, galaxy, the larger the black hole. and the emerging black hole shrinks Star makers.