“Keep Dreaming” Anatole France http://charity-matters.com/2015/01/09/charity-matters-quotes-dreaming/#.VWxo6M_BzGc – accessed 6/1/15
Have you ever woken up after a really strange dream and just had to sit there for a moment and process it? Or have you woken up and completely forgot the dream you knew you just had? Or do you not even remember the last time you had a dream.Most people don’t understand dreams very well or they never really think about them. And although there is still a lot to learn about dream, there still is plenty already known about them.
Besides just normal dreams, there are many different types of dreams. Theres day dreaming and lucid dreams. day dreams are short dreams you have when you’re not really awake but your not really sleeping either, and they usually draw from your surroundings. In my experience with them, things like noises, smells, and where you are all have an affect on what happens in a daydream. Lucid dreams are when you’re dreaming but you have complete control of your dream, allowing you to completely alter your surroundings and situation in the dream. Its difficult to trigger lucid dreaming, because it involves realizing that you are dreaming inside that dream, which can sometimes cause you to wake up.
I know from my own experiences dreaming that i dream often and very vividly, but most of my friends say they rarely dream or only have bad dreams when they do. My dreams usually involve fun stories and nice places, but others can seem to only recall nothing or bad things when they think of dreaming. There are a lot of things that can affect what a person dreams about such as how much sleep they get, their state of mind, or sometimes whats going on around them as they sleep. Its difficult to study dreams because it all happens in a persons head,so they have to be remembered vividly and often and everyone dreams different so something may be true for one person, but not another. Alot of people think dreams have meaning whether its that they can predict the future, or can show what’s going on in your head at the time. Dreams have been recorded for a long time and many people believed they were messages from the gods and spirits.
Demembering dreams can be a difficult thing, because your brains memory centers don’t really do much while you dream, so its harder to recall things from dreams. For me to be able to remember i dream, i usually have to stay in bed and try not to move too much. staying in the same position and environment that you had the dream in can help with your recall of the dream. It also helps to keep a dream journal, which will help you get used to trying to remember your dreams and also makes it so you can look back and see how you’ve dreamt in the past.
Many people have dreams and they have many reasons and types. Some people dream, some people don’t. Some people believe they have meaning and some people don’t. I enjoyed my personal experiences with dreams and I love seeing others enjoy their dreams too.