Why do we Dream?
June 27, 2011 at 7:14 am by ma
Dreams represent a world of imagery in which our darkest fears, deepest secrets, and most passionate fantasies break out from the unconscious mind and only at this time become present to our own consciousness. The meaning of dreams is often simply “borrowed” from recent events. The brain will “flush out” emotional arousal by creating a dream of a scenario that parallels the real-life experience – a metaphor. The feelings in the dream are usually an exaggeration of feelings from the real-life issue which caused the dream. Only emotional arousal unexpressed while awake causes us to dream. The latest theories have demonstrated that dreaming is vital for mental health and that the sleep state we associate with dreaming (the REM state) also has crucial importance when we are awake.
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