Dreams Explained
We take for granted the little dramas we witness in our sleep that we categorize under the broad title of "dreams". Maybe its because people dream from the womb to the grave and for all we know beyond that point too so it is a common human experience. In fact, if you have domestic animals, you can see them dreaming when they sleep. We have watched our dog sleep and his paws move like he is running and he even barks at a dream cat or squirrel in his sleep.
So dreaming is a natural part of how our minds work in a sleeping state. Medical science has done a lot of work to explain what dreams are and why we have them from a medical point of view. But no scientist can hook up an electrode to tell you what you are dreaming about of, more importantly, why we dream what we dream.
If you asked ten strangers what dreams are, you might get some strange answers. Besides the other definition of a dream representing your hopes and dreams, the nocturnal kind of dreaming is a vision you might have during your sleep hours that takes the shape of a scene, a conversation with someone or some other kind of episode. But even that is a little too specific. You can dream in concepts, in music, in colors. They say that Helen Keller told her friends about dreams she had and she was deaf and blind from birth so having images in not a requirement of dreaming.
Dreams are the expressions of the subconscious mind. Psychologists tell us that our subconscious minds are active all the time. At night while our conscious minds rest, our subconscious minds process the information from the day and deal with left over emotions, anxieties or causes for celebration that were not adequately handled by the conscious mind. The results of this additional processing are the dreams we have.
So we know what dreams are. The real question most of us want to know more about when it comes to the topic is, "do our dreams have meaning to us?" While you can draw your own conclusion from a religions standpoint whether dreams are a conduit for spiritual communications, most of us have dreams that seem to be very meaningful in terms of the daily activities of our minds.
Experts have confirmed that the imagery of dreams is meaningful because the human subconscious communicates in symbols. So there may be messages our subconscious minds are telling us through dreams. That means it is valid to pay attention to your dreams and analyze them for what you might learn from your own subconscious. By being more intuitive to what our own minds are trying to tell us, we all might learn a lot from that side of our personalities.
