By Mark Broder
Everybody dreams. We define dreams as the pictures, sounds, feelings or thoughts that happen in our mind while we are sleeping. Normally, we are not able to control our dreams. I cannot choose to dream a particular dream or stop myself from dreaming. Dreams are very personal. It is different for different persons. There is probably not a single answer to all the questions about dream.
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.
Other neural researchers had formed experiments and observed the sleeping pattern of human in laboratory. They found that sleep can be separated into different states. One of them is called the rapid eye movement state when the eyeballs move quickly under the lids. During this state, the brain is almost awake but the body is in deep sleep. Most dreams happen during this state. Neural signals are fired and different sensations are formed.
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.
Everybody dreams. We define dreams as the pictures, sounds, feelings or thoughts that happen in our mind while we are sleeping. Normally, we are not able to control our dreams. I cannot choose to dream a particular dream or stop myself from dreaming. Dreams are very personal. It is different for different persons. There is probably not a single answer to all the questions about dream.
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.
Other neural researchers had formed experiments and observed the sleeping pattern of human in laboratory. They found that sleep can be separated into different states. One of them is called the rapid eye movement state when the eyeballs move quickly under the lids. During this state, the brain is almost awake but the body is in deep sleep. Most dreams happen during this state. Neural signals are fired and different sensations are formed.
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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