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Why Do We Dream?
Articles About Dreams - Dream articles include - Why do We Dream? article. What causes dreams? Why do we sleep? Also Dream Interpretation Article, Features, Columns, essays, discourses, treatise and compositions. Themes include Dreams, Dreaming, Sleep, REM, Lucid dream, Dream Experiments, waking nightmares, consciousness and somnambulism
I hope you enjoy this comparatively new website where I now host many of my articles about dreams. Some of the pages here are taken from essays I have written and there are also many published articles and extracts from my books. In particular I have selected articles that address the question "Why Do We Dream?"
Please do not reproduce any of these Dream Articles on your bloggs etc as they are copyrighted and the extracts here are exclusive to this website.
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Why Do We Dream?
Nobody knows for certain why we dream. One of the first people to come close to a scientific explanation was the Greek philosopher Aristotle. At first, he spoke of the soul exercising special clairvoyant powers, in accord with its divine nature, when freed from the body’s constraint in sleep. However, he was to conclude that the function of sleep and dreams was to dissipate the vapours that rose from the stomach after food. Similarly, for many centuries it was believed that blood rose to the brain and caused congestion there. Sleep enabled the blood to drain drained back into the rest of the body.
Science asks: Why Do We Dream?
Early in the 20th century the first scientific theories about sleep and dreams proposed that chemicals such as lactic acid, carbon dioxide and cholesterol, collected in the brain during the day. These were dissipated during sleep. In short, sleep and dreams were thought to be a function of the elimination process of the body.
 Today some psychologists are reconsidering these initial ideas. Although Aristotle and others were clearly wrong about their science, they may have been correct in saying that dreams are a physiological process. Some of the latest theories propose that dreams are the body’s way of ‘rebooting’ the brain. Dreams dispose of memories that would otherwise clutter the mind with unnecessary remembered experiences. In particular they enable the emotions to become balanced. Dreams get rid of the junk and allow the brain’s complex chemistry to stabilise. Without dreams, we would simply overheat.
REM Sleep: A way to discover Why We Dream?
One of the biggest breakthroughs in dream experimentation came in 1952 when a researcher noticed that the eyes of sleeping subjects would move beneath their closed eyelids. In 1955, Eugene Aserinsky and Nathan Kleitman published a paper on these strange eye movements. They named them “rapid eye movements” and called this phase of sleep REM periods. REM sleep (also now know as paradoxical sleep) occupies 20 per cent of your night’s sleep and alternates with orthodox sleep about every 90 minutes.
It has been found that during REM sleep the flow of blood to the brain increases, as does the brain’s temperature and both the penis in men and the clitoris in women become erect. REM sleep strengthens memory-traces although the release of growth hormones is less than during orthodox sleep. But most importantly, the brain shows a radical change in activity that can be measured on an electroencephalograph (EEG). If a person is awoken at this time, they usually remember vivid dreams. This discovery enabled scientists to tell how often we dream and by waking the subject during REM sleep they could guarantee there would be a dream to study.
How Often Do We Dream?
Most of us dream every 90 minutes and the longest dreams, lasting 30 to 45 minutes, occur in the morning. Studies have shown that half of us wake during REM sleep and recall our dreams but the rest wake during non-REM sleep and are less likely to recall a dream. This may account for why many people believe that they “never dream”. The truth is that we all dream- every night- but most of us forget we’ve been dreaming.
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