The Interperetation Of Dreams: Why Do People Dream?

Dreams are images that occur during any stage of sleep but are most vivid during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, the deepest stage of sleep. Dreams have been of interest for thousands of years, but just recently have scientists started to research them. There have been many interpretations on why humans dream hundreds of dreams a night, Psychologists and Scientists don't know for sure.

In 1900, Sigmund Freud published a book called The interperetation of Dreams, this was a base line for the new studies of the mind that were going to emerge. Since the publication of his book there are many new theories that psycologists have come up with to explain the reasoning of our dreams. Freud maintained the notion that the dream fundamentally acts as the guardian of sleep.(http://dreams.insomnium.co.uk/)

Studies have been done to try and figure out the mystique behind dreaming but still the question remains with no answer, "Why do people dream?" Some believe it's due to stress and problems in every day life. Others believe it's wish fullfilment. Nothing is certain when it comes to this question.

Though there is no definite answer there are still many theories to explain it. The mysteries of dreaming have't been entirely figured out, but various theories uc dreams bring wishfullfilment, the left over activity in the brain, storage of memories, problem solving, practice responses to threatining situations, contemporary, garbage collection, and dreaming to remember.

One of the most popular theories of why people dream is Sigmund Freud's theory of Wish fullfillment.

Freud sees all dreams as wish fullfillment. In his book The Interpretation of Dreams he wrote "dreams are disguised fulfillments of repressed wishes." He believed that dre...

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...formation that is recieved by the cerebrial cortex that during dreams some things are needed to be thrown out, what is un-needed. If not done so it could disrupt the organization of memories. In order to make storage more efficient and avoid overloading, a process of reverse learning can be used.

The net is disconnected from its normal inputs and outputs, and random input is given to it. The associations that this random input produces are consequently weakened, and the process is repeated many times with different kinds of random input.(psyplexus)

After learning something if someone goes to bed and dreams in the theory of consolidating what we've learned, it says people will remember the concept and understand it more while sleeping. During sleep our brains after learning are putting stuff together things that couldn't be figured out or understood while awake.