Dreams

Dreams We dream many dreams every night, but why do we dream; and what do they mean' “Dreams are a communication of body, mind and spirit in a symbolic communicative environment” (www.sleeps.com). To make that statement easier to understand, www.sleeps.com goes on to explain how dreams are a review influenced by factors in your life and spirit. Our brains are constantly active. Our minds are always in different states like sleeping, awake, drowsy, alert, excited, bored, concentrating, or daydreaming. Sigmund Freud believed “Dreams are keys to the most secret parts of the mind.” (Coren 24). Dreams always occur while we are in a type of sleep called REM (Rapid Eye Movement). All the things you dream about are a reflection of your life; they reflect your feelings, thoughts, desires, and your fears. Man’s interest in dreams can be traced to the time of the ancient Greeks. “The people of the ancient world tended to believe that some dreams were sent by the gods to convey information to mortals” (Holroyd 44). They discovered “that a dream is not nonsense but information in disguise” (Holroyd 46). The Epic of Gilgamesh, written four thousand years ago, was one of the dreams, dream, people, dreaming, nightmares, type, way, nightmare, daydreaming, holroyd, work, life, just, hartmann, first, events, about, stage, really, out, lives, home1gtenet, even, while, types, two, therapist, singer, research, next, look, known, interpret, group, greeks