The Role of Dreams

The Roles of Dreams in

The House of Sleep

by

Jonathan Coe

Solinas , one of the reviewers of this book claims that the House of Sleep is snoozy ' It presents a romantic novel with unbalanced plot and characters as gray and forgettable as a dream

The central theme of the book is about sleeping and dreams . It encircles the lives of a group of students who are suffering from sleeping diss but seem to have difficulty in differentiating between sleeping and dreaming

Coe has indeed created a plot of

story of dreams of young college adolescents with all their dreams . In fact , he is creating a plot that set their dreams to become reality

Sarah , for example , is a narcoleptic - a condition that causes a person to fall asleep in the middle of daily activities (Buskist Gerbing 1990 . The muscle suddenly relax and the person falls asleep but once gets up five minutes later , the person does not really know that she just fell asleep

While Sarah has narcolepsy , her boy friend Gregory is having a habit of kinky sexual practice she is also practicing lesbianism with Veronica a person with lively character and dating Robert at the same time Robert , similarly , has his own passion and fantasizing about Sarah who seems to have the boring characters among all

Coe has set the scenario in such a way that depicts how difficult these adolescents to differentiate between dream and reality

Buskist Gerbing (1990 ) asked , Why do we need sleep ' Scientists answered that sleeping serves as restorative function . Backer also questioned , Why do we sleep ? What is the biologic al role of dreams How are dreams generated , and why do so many of them feature anxiety fear , and sexual desire ' And he stated that Adult humans spend about a third of their lives sleeping . Newborn babies spend about double that amount of time in this state and stated

Among psychoanalysts , dreams are symbolic human conditions . They represent the unconsciousness of human 's mind because . While were are asleep and are ostensibly unconscious ' said the author of the Dictionary of Dreams , our brains are obviously extremely active (7 We cannot control over the function of our major organs . dreams are a manifestation of this activity and are often extremely vivid (Ibid

The author of Dictionary of Dreams says that Sleep is essential for the repair of the body and for cell regeneration (8 . We need to sleep to regain our energy levels . Without sleeping , said Buskist Gerbing our energy levels wane and , in general , we may feel physically and psychologically tired (138

According to Backer (2004 , sleep consists of two very different alternating stages ' which can be differentiated by means of an electroencephalogram (EEG , an electro-oculogram (EOG , and an electromyogram (EMG , which measure the activity of brain waves , eye movement , and muscle tone , respectively ' The first stage is known as non-rapid eye movement or NREM . It is characterized by high-amplitude low-frequency waves registered in the EEG , rolling , uncoordinated , and slow movement of...