Dreams

Dreams

One thing everyone has in common is we all sleep. While we snooze in our cozy beds we all dream, and usually wake up with some recollection of them. What is a dream? A dream can include any of the images, thoughts and emotions that are experienced during sleep.   Although we all can recall dreams how often can we relate them to real life or unwrap them down to their cores? I'm quite interested in this myself so that's how I came to the conclusion of this papers topic.

Knowing exactly why and how we dream is the best foundation to build on to decode dreams. Dreams occur in our brains while we sleep; Durinng the stage of sleep referred to as R.E.M sleep. Where the eyes twitch and bounce erratically. Researchers are puzzled as to if this is one of the ways images are produced in our minds.   The thing that fuels the dream and most likely can explain the reasons for the spontaneous settings, ideas, and events in dreams is a chemical produced in our mind and in most other living things is called DMT. DMT is also extracted to be used as a drug for its hallucination attributes and the feeling of being in complete control in a dream, DMT is said to be the cause of the 'white light' seen by people revived due to the fact this chemical rushes our bodies at the time of birth and death. So in one way a dream may be nothing more than your mind naturally tripping but if this is the case why do our brains do this?

Why we dream is a question modern scientist and advanced technology have yet to fully understand, however has been surrounded in a big debate for a while now. Over the past a couple years the field of possibilities has been narrowed down to a handful. One of the only big names in this field is sigmund freud, he suggests that dreams were a representation of unconscious desires, thoughts and motivations. According to Freud’s psychoanalytic view of personality, people are driven by aggressive and sexual instincts that are repressed from conscious awareness. While these...