What is dream? Do you like dreaming? We all like good dreams and hate or afraid of nightmare. But are dreams simply images we see, sounds we hear, feelings we have and thoughts we think during sleep? Is there a purpose of all that fantasy? What are the causes of dreams?

Dreams compose of approximately 20% of human sleeping time, which can be added up to five years of your lifetime. On average, people have 4 to 5 dreams in a night. It is really true that everyone have dreams though some of them are remembered and some of them are not. As dreams are not images only, blind people who are indeed more sensitive to us in other sense other than vision, can also have dreams with sound, feelings and thoughts.

In the ancient world, people had strange explanations for dreams. But even today, dreams are still interpreted by different cultures and religions with different means. Some say dreams are caused by desires, worries or memories. Some thinks that dreams are caused by external stimulations. Like I think everyone had the experience of dreaming of going to the toilet and woke up and found that you really need to pee.

In the 19th century, Sigmund Freud (“S. Freud”) first started to adopt a systematic way / scientific research approach to encounter the subject -DREAMS. S. Freud concluded dreams emerge more internally (e.g. mental activities, pressure from unsatisfied aspirations) than externally (e.g. room temperature, noise, full bladder). Dreams can be your lost memory and sexual desire.

By more researches from the scientists, they usually tell you that dreams are products when the brain processing stimuli. Dreams usually occur in the rapid eye movement state (eyes can be seen to move under the eyelids) of sleeping. During rapid eye movement, the brain is almost like awake but it is actually difficult for sleeper to wake up in a deep muscular relaxation.

Science and psychology have told us many different factors of dreams. We now understand that psychological factors can cause related dreams as well as other reasons. But what we don’t understand is the relationship between our spirit and dreams. How about prophetic dreams? Many had experiences of having dreams that accurately predict future events. What I believe is that God sometimes communicates with man with dreams and the dreams do have spiritual significance.

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