2007 m. lapkričio 24 d., šeštadienis

Sleep and dreams

Meaning of the dreams, their importance and secrets have interested the humanity all the time.
Now is known that all the people are dreaming even 4-6 times per night. But not all remember that they have dreamed at all or what exactly they were dreaming. It is thought that people who are not interested in the content of the dream usually do not remember their dreams. But most of us frequently remeber our dreams.
Why do we dream? Do the dreams have any hidden meaning?

2007 m. lapkričio 14 d., trečiadienis

The person who has influenced me


During my life I have met a lot of people and everyone of them have influenced me. Some of that influences were very positive, some of them not. But I very appreciate each of them because they help me to grow up and become who I am.

When I was younger I used to be very associated with my sister. By the time I became a teenager our relationship get a little bit worse as we both were at the same age, and this period wasn't very easy. During the years rapport between us get much better, but actually I think I influenced her more than she influenced me. So I would like to distinguish one my friend Stas and now I'm gonna talk about him.

I met him about three years ago and summarily understood that this person is quite unique. He is a little bit older but so open and warm. When I saw it I get in with him soon.

Stas is one of those people who very easily communicate and I actually can absolutely rely on him. After meeting him my life have changed to the better side! I get a lot of new friends, met people who have a great and very positive influence on me. I have visited a lot of new places and even countries. And I think the most important think is that I have changed my attitude towards many different things.

I am very happy about this friendship and I hope it will go on forever!

Phobias


Phobia is an irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation. Usually phobia involves a sense of endangerment or a fear of harm. Phobic symptoms can occur through exposure to the fear object or situation, or sometimes simply thinking about the feared object can lead to a response. Symphtoms associated with phobia are: dizziness, breathlessness, nausea, a sense of unreality, fear of dying.
There are three types of phobias: Social phobias—fear of social situations; Agoraphobia—fear of being trapped in an inescapable place or situation; Specific phobias—fear of a specific object (such as snakes). Specific phobias are divided as the natural environment - fear of lightening, water, storms, etc; animal - fear of snakes, rodents, spiders, etc; medical - fear of seeing blood, receiving injections, visiting a doctor, etc; situational - fear of bridges, leaving the home, driving, etc.
So, if you feel a chill when you walk by a cemetery at night, do you have coimetrophobia? A little bit of fear is not a phobia. But a person who feels an overwhelming, irrational fear of a certain object or situation may have a condition known as a specific phobia.
People with specific phobias often know that their fears are irrational, but this logic does not prevent them from experiencing high levels of anxiety and even panic attacks when facing, or thinking about facing, their phobias.
Actually phobia can be treated. There are a lot of ways of treating it. For instance, exposure treatments or counter-conditioning. In exposure treatment a patient is exposed to the frear object in order to learn how to coupe with the fear. I counter-conditioning treatment patient is taught to the new reponse to the frear object.
Phobia is a very wide spreaded disorder. As ilustration of this I would mention few famous people who have or had some kind of specific phobias. For example, boxing champion Muhammad Ali suffer from fear of flying, or aviophobia (also known as aerophobia). Tennis star Andre Agassi is arachnophobic, or has a fear of spiders. Adolf Hitler was claustrophobic. Napoleon Bonaparte, who was the emperor of France, suffered from ailurophobia, a fear of cats. There are only few examples.

Many people all over the world suffer from this quite strange and irrational disorder. But it can be treated.