When you sleep and are far away in dreamland how disappointed are you to hear your alarm calling you back to reality? What is it about dreams that can drive a person crazy? More importantly what are dreams?
The average person sleeps 1/3 of their lives. This means that for those of us lucky enough, we spend 1/3 of our lives dreaming. So why do we dream? Well sadly I cannot answer that question. However I can give you some theories that various people have come up with.
Lets start with Sigmund Freud. You know the guy, he's the one who started the whole mess on being in love with your parents, but that is beside the point. Freud thought that dreams were a representation of unconscious desires, thoughts, and motivations.
Next on our list of theories comes J. Allen Hobson and Robert McClarley's ideas on dreaming. They thought that during REM sleep the brain synthesized and interpreted internal activity, such as emotion, sensations, and memories, and attempted to find meaning, which would result in dreaming.
Other theories have come about from the brain 'cleaning up' clutter to the brains natural way of therapy. No matter the theory we still dream and we may never know why, but we might as well enjoy dreaming while it lasts.
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