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People nowadays take most of their
times doing their daily activities, such as studying, working, playing, even
the most mundane things we could imagine everybody doing. We spend only less
than half of our day resting, and we could imagine how comfortable our bed
would be after such a long, hard day. Then, here we are, proceeding to lay our
body on the bed and begin our next adventures beyond our consciousness, and
those adventures are commonly known as “dreams”.
So, what do
dreams mean, exactly?
Dreams are basically visions,
images, or stories we are experiencing during sleep. Our mind creates such
visions and stories, whether they are absolutely rational or just a total
nonsense when we recall them when we wake up. Dreams can occur at any point in
our sleep. We can enter the dreams shortly after we close our eyes, and it
mainly happens because we are really tired. Some people take a long time
closing their eyes before they can experience dreams. Most vivid dreams occur
during a deep sleep, REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep to be exact. In this
moment, the brain is very active. Some experts say that we normally dream at
least four to six times per night.
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Are there types
of dreams?
Yes, there are several. One of them
being Message-Bearing Dream, a kind of dream that repeats themshelves more than
once, and this category is common among us, and we can assume there is certain
message behind those recurring dreams.
The other being Message/Physic
Dream, nearly just like the Message-Bearing Dream, only it has a way of sending
message to our mind via colors, textures, and detailings, so that message can
be conveyed to the conscious to be worked on.
There is also Lucid Dream, which is
quite popular among us. Lucid Dream begins just like a normal dream, but we can
finally realise, at some point in Lucid Dream, that all those things we see,
the world we are in, the stories we are experiencing, they are all not real. At
that very moment, we can control and manipulate our own dream without having to
wake up. Sounds fascinating.
Finally, there is False Awakening
Dream. Maybe at least once in our life, we wake up in the morning and then we
prepare ourselves to go to work, and in the middle of the street we see that no
one is around, and that’s when we realise that we have not actually waken up,
it was dream after all.
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Why are we
dreaming?
There are many factors contributing
to the creations of the dreams. They could be things we are mostly thinking
about our whole day, our hopes and fears, our strong memories whether they are
happy or sad, and so on. The brain process our memories and thoughts. From
that, our dreams are made.
Dreams are peculiar things that
mostly can not simply be explained, but it is quite fun to have them in our
life, making the mundane life turns into something magical, even only for a
short moment. Just remember what our great wizard from Harry Potter series,
Albus Dumbledore once said to Harry Potter, that “it does not do to dwell on dreams
and forget to live”.
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