Dreams

Are dreams merely part of the sleep cycle, or do they serve some other purpose? Dreams are stories and images that our minds create while we sleep. They can be entertaining, fun, romantic, disturbing, frightening, and sometimes bizarre.

They are an enduring source of mystery for scientists and psychological doctors.

· We may not remember dreaming, but everyone is thought to dream between 3 and 6 times per night

Around 95 percent of dreams are forgotten by the time a person gets out of bed.
Dreaming can help you learn and develop long-term memories.
In all likelihood, the things you experience in your dreams are probably a reflection of the concerns you face in your daily existence. What goes through our minds just before we fall asleep could affect the content of our dreams. Freud maintained that undesirable memories could become suppressed in the mind. Dreams ease repression by allowing these memories to be reinstated.

A study showed that sleep does not help people forget unwanted memories. Instead, REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep might even counteract the voluntary suppression of memories, making them more accessible for retrieval.

Two types of memory can form the basis of a dream.

These are:

· autobiographical memories, or long-lasting memories about the self

· episodic memories, which are memories about specific episodes or events

Most dreams are entirely forgotten by the time someone wakes up, but it is not known precisely why dreams are so hard to remember.

There are factors that can potentially influence who remembers their dreams, how much of the dream remains intact, and how vivid it is.

Some dreams may seem to predict future events.

Some researchers claim to have evidence that this is possible, but there is not enough evidence to prove it.

Death is another common subject of dreams and one that can be particularly disconcerting. Dreamers sometimes dream of the death of a loved one or even dream of dying themselves. Popular dream interpretations sometimes suggest that such dreams reflect anxiety about change or a fear of the unknown.

"Like death, change can be scary because – also like death – we do not know what is 'on the other side,' of the change, which is why the dreaming mind equates change with death," suggests Lauri Loewenberg in her book Dream on It: Unlock Your Dreams, Change Your Life.

Loewenberg also believes that dreaming about the death of a loved one can reflect a similar fear of change, especially with regards to children reaching milestones and growing up. Such changes, she suggests, indicate that a child is growing up and a parent's mind begins to wonder where the younger version of the child went. Such dreams of dying, therefore, reflect a sort of mourning for the inevitable passage of time.

Had not been a dreamer, but don’t know recently had seeing old office’s – First current office, then George and Paulson, and then confused future – someone trying to help fix things and then finally cutting my hand off.

And then finally Achan. Asking if the breakfast is ready, I said no. Then he comes to kitchen, I am not there, food is burning. He switches off the gas, gets 3 masala dosha for all of us from Arya's. !?