Why Do We dream?

Ryan Keith Johnson

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            Probably the most unanswered questions that everybody on Earth has is the mystery behind Dreams.  These strange phenomenons have affected mankind in many ways, both disastrous and creative. Why do we dream and how many different kinds of dreams remains as the only answer to the mystery of what are dreams. 
           Why do we dream? The question is as profound as why are we here on Earth? I have barely scratched the surface on the subject because there is so many variables.  Dreams live with us, inspire us, warn us, and give us hope for a better way of life.  We’ve been dreaming even before we were born and for a quarter of our lives we will have slept our lives away.  It has been said that god speaks to us through our dreams  They fill our body with unimaginable strength in both our mind and immune system.  I did an experiment when I lived in Rice Lake I slept for 12 hours each day and felt so

exuberant, coordinated and stronger than usual. I did another experiment and slept for four hours within a month I felt weak, sick, moody and uncoordinated in my thinking.    Nobody knows for certain why we dream and each theory doesn’t seem to fit.  I have found that we only use 15% of our brain during a daily exercise and when we go to bed  to surrender for tomorrow we dream of the day and our mind unwinds  and organizes

events.  It goes through hundreds of cycles, or dreams.   In my research and talk with other people that we have a thousand dreams in a night  Dreams reflect ourselves and our life, sometimes in more ways than we realize.  Our dreams work out our problems from the real world to the dream world where we have visited and lived our lives. After we have tried to beat the problem it remains in our subconscious that is why we dream about it.  To get relief and answers, we need to dream.

             Scientist did an experiment on an individual, for a month they kept him from reaching R.E.M. Rapid Eye Movement is the dreaming animation that we endure every night. This individual was detained in a ten by ten room for a month. By the time this person reached the 28th day he suffered psychological damage and faced hallucinations. He had sores all over his body and thought that there were tarantulas all over his room biting him. The subject almost died because he was being kept from R.E.M. After sleeping four days straight the he made a full recovery, but it shows to prove that we do not mess with our body and play games with what the mind needs. 

            There are many different kinds of dreams the most common ones are the Literal Dreams.  The message is straight forward and very clear and crisp, an example would be flying or your mother telling you something and then the dream would end. Symbolic dreams are complex and involve careful interpretations.  My mother had this strange dream where all the trees were chopped down and that she was outraged about it while our neighbors still had trees, but our vehicles were parked next door at our neighbors.  I

knew right off he bat that trees mean family and that the house was symbolizing herself and seeing our cars parked next door at our neighbors was seeing how other people’s family life was going.  I told her that she was probably seeing my dads family’s disconnection toward her as well as his mother, my grandmother.  Serial dreams are another mystery that fill both my mind and your mind. If you have had a sequel to a following dream or the one before that then you have had a Serial Dream.  They are common, and will keep adding insight until the problem is solved. A Dream in a Dream

is the most interesting, I never had one until a couple of months ago.  It was about my grandma and how much I missed her.  Unlike the Serial Dream that keeps drawing up every night you go to sleep is the Reoccurring Dream.  This type of dream usually stays as the same dream for a period of months until you discover what your doing and change your  way of life.  Then there is Mutual Dreaming where more than one person have the same dream.  I have tried to Mutual Dream with people I haven’t seen for a long time or 

with people I know now and haven’t been very successful.  You cannot control what kind of dream you want or  who you want to meet in it, but in Lucid Dreaming you can do and say what ever you want because you know you are dreaming.  Premonition Dreams and/or Psychic Dreaming are probably the most famous, but are not taken very serious.  

            Inventors and Scientists who created things from the sewing machine to the atom bomb have had dreams that led them to this.  Such dreams that lead me to believe that we are all connected in the sinking of the Titanic.  Hundreds of people in Europe have claimed to have been aboard and felt the cold water splash up against their body,  yet they had no recollection that the mighty ship had sank during the time of the dream. 

            How different the world would have been without a World War II.  Hitler had a nightmare that a suffocating black cloud of debris was drawing upon him.  Adolph woke up and ran out of his bunker to catch his breath when a shell from a missile came crashing down killing everyone. 

            Dreams have inspired us to do so much and in so many ways.  If people of all ages took advantage of their dreams they would be very proud to over come the obstacles in their lives.  They give us enlightenment, wisdom and keys to open the locked doors of the mind.  We are all connected to it and intertwined with each other around it.  When you tell somebody good-bye, say to them; I’ll see you in my dreams, because chances are you will.

 

    




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References: The Dream Work Book by Nerys Dee