Causes of Dreams

What is dream? Do you like dreaming? We all like good dreams and hate or afraid of nightmare. But are dreams simply images we see, sounds we hear, feelings we have and thoughts we think during sleep? Is there a purpose of all that fantasy? What are the causes of 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.

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.

When talking about dreams, many would recall the name Sigmund Freud who is a famous psychologist tried to develop a systematic theory of explaining the phenomenon of dreaming. From research results, he concluded that dreams are mainly induced by internal factors like emotions, pressures, memories. He thinks that dreams are less related to external stimulations like temperature or noise.

By more researches from the scientists, they usually tell you that dreams are products when the brain processing stimuli. Dreams usually occur in the rapid eye movement state (eyes can be seen to move under the eyelids) of sleeping. During rapid eye movement, the brain is almost like awake but it is actually difficult for sleeper to wake up in a deep muscular relaxation.

With the significant development of science and psychology theories, it seems that we human have already find out the reason and causes for dreams. But when you try to find out more about where we are affected by the external environments, why there is rapid eye movement and even why we have desires in our deeper heart, there seems other “ultimate” reasons and causes coming out for dreams. But then you can find out the even “ultimate” reasons and causes by keep asking questions. So, you think you are trapped? Think carefully, there is always a reason that never traps you, and that is the dreams are from God who want to communicate with you (which is actually the traditional wisdom developed before 19 century).

Learn more about dreams and dream interpretation, visit: meaning of dreams