Date: 14th June, 2015
Session # 36
Attended by: 8 participants
Report written by: Fatima Salman
In this session, we first talked about sleep, which we had planned to do so in the last session. Sleep is an experience of death. When we sleep, we go through the same process as we do when we die. We are completely unconscious and do not have control of ourselves when we are asleep. The same thing happens when we die.
People who aren't Muslims, or those who do not understand life after death question about how is it possible to become alive after dying. Well, it's basically the same way we wake up after a night's sleep. God gives us the experience of death in our lives, so that we know how it happens when we die.
Before we are born, only our soul exists, and that is with God. Then we are born, and are given a body to go with a soul with in this world. Then we die, and our body is taken away from us, and our soul remains. Then, we are resurrected, and again our body and soul are reunited. According to what we did in this world, we will enter either Heaven or Hell, where we'll remain forever.
We discussed these things in detail. Then, we decided to start a Chess Tournament. Three boys, Ibraheem, Ayan, and Taimoor, are given the responsibility of organizing it. It is decided that every player will play two matches with every one else. The ones who wins the most matches, will be qualified for the Semi finals, and finals. Participating in the tournament isn't compulsory, you can participate if you want to. Everyone who attended this session was willing to participate in it.
The session officially ended at 11:30, but everyone stayed back and played Chess. There were a couple of people who weren't sure about it's rules, and the others told them about it. We played practice matches with each other just to warm up and see how good the others are. The matches we played then weren't included in the tournament. We will start playing those tournament matches in the next session.
If you would like to participate in the tournament, you can come in the next session. If you don't know how to play chess, don't worry, we'll teach you. It'll be lots of fun!
Thank you.
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Sleep and Dreams, Article by Kenza (online member)
Here is an article written by our online club member, Kenza, about sleep and dreams, which we discussed in Session 35.
Dreams come in three stages: light sleep, deep sleep and REM. During REM (Rapid Eye Movement), our eyes roll around rapidly under our eyelids. During deep sleep, we have almost no contact with the real world. And if we wake up naturally, we’ll be in light sleep until we actually awaken.
When we dream, we don’t know we’re dreaming. In our dreams, we often think the world around us is reality even if the things that appear in front of us are absolutely unreal. The reason for this is that our frontal lobes (the part of the brain at the front) aren’t acting much. However, they are when we’re awake, and at those times we’ll know for sure that we’re definitely not dreaming.
While dreaming, we have no sense of time. We don’t even know how long our dreams last - they might only last an hour. But still, according to a fact in What Makes Me Me? by Robert Winston, you’ll spend around five years of your life in dreams. And another that states, the average person dreams about 1,825 times a year.
Furthermore, you won’t copy the motions you make in your dreams; for instance, you won’t start running a marathon if that’s what you’re dreaming about! This acts as a barrier to stop you copying the movements you make whilst dreaming. This is because your brain signals to your muscles to move (to correspond with the motion you make in your dream) but your spinal cord ignores these signals.
According to some people, if you want to remember your dreams well, lie your pillow flat before you sleep. This helps keep a good recollection of your dream, because your blood circulates better this way.
To sum up, dreaming is an interesting topic that even scientists can’t completely understand. And maybe some of it will always remain a mystery.
By Kenza, Online Club Member
Dreams come in three stages: light sleep, deep sleep and REM. During REM (Rapid Eye Movement), our eyes roll around rapidly under our eyelids. During deep sleep, we have almost no contact with the real world. And if we wake up naturally, we’ll be in light sleep until we actually awaken.
When we dream, we don’t know we’re dreaming. In our dreams, we often think the world around us is reality even if the things that appear in front of us are absolutely unreal. The reason for this is that our frontal lobes (the part of the brain at the front) aren’t acting much. However, they are when we’re awake, and at those times we’ll know for sure that we’re definitely not dreaming.
While dreaming, we have no sense of time. We don’t even know how long our dreams last - they might only last an hour. But still, according to a fact in What Makes Me Me? by Robert Winston, you’ll spend around five years of your life in dreams. And another that states, the average person dreams about 1,825 times a year.
Furthermore, you won’t copy the motions you make in your dreams; for instance, you won’t start running a marathon if that’s what you’re dreaming about! This acts as a barrier to stop you copying the movements you make whilst dreaming. This is because your brain signals to your muscles to move (to correspond with the motion you make in your dream) but your spinal cord ignores these signals.
According to some people, if you want to remember your dreams well, lie your pillow flat before you sleep. This helps keep a good recollection of your dream, because your blood circulates better this way.
To sum up, dreaming is an interesting topic that even scientists can’t completely understand. And maybe some of it will always remain a mystery.
By Kenza, Online Club Member
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| I think my dream came true. |
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