Why Do We Have Dreams?
If you try to find out the word DREAMS in dictionary or encyclopedia, you will probably get a description as “Dreams are images, sounds, feelings and thoughts that appear in our mind during sleep, which to most of the extent are involuntary and non-controllable in nature”. We have to admit that dreams are personal and specific to everyone and that and no one explanation can fit into everyone’s 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.
Before 19th century, there are actually many unsystematic explanations to causes of dreams from different part of the countries in respect of their different cultures. Common ones for causes of dreams include desire of lives, reflections of deeper heart, internal, external stimulations from sleeping environment and messages from God.
Sigmund Freud, One of the most famous psychologists, tried to study the subconscious mind of human being. He developed a theory to explain the mental activities during sleep. He suggests that dreams are caused by internal factors. For example, the worries of a man, some unsatisfied desires like sexual desire or emotional hurts from childhood can induce related dreams.
Scientists tell us that dreams are merely signals going back and forth from neurons to neurons. They discovered something called the rapid eye movement state which represents the state during sleep when your eyeballs move rapidly with eyelids closed. Researchers discovered that most dreaming happens during the rapid eye movement state. The body is in deep relaxation state and hard to wake up.
Curious human are always searching for the reason why things happen the way they do. For dreams, it might seem that modern technology has solved the mystery. But in fact, all it does is answering the question how, not why. The reason and purpose of dreams remained hidden. What I believe is that dreams are given by the one and only true God who is the starter and finisher of all things. In Him, we find all the reasons and purposes.
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