General knowledge about dream

Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud assumed that dreams are subconsciously expressed hidden desires/ wishes. However, a brainstem dream theorists believed that dreams occur due to random stimulation of brainstem. Neurocognitve theorists have done general study and research, to find out categories and outlines of dreams and also the areas of the brain that actively occupied in dreaming. However, nobody knows the exact verification/ evidence yet.

Dream is intangible, it’s what you experience during your sleep; it is contain a series of images, thoughts, emotions, and sensations happening unwillingly in the mind throughout certain periods of sleep. Dreams are functional because it is tools to help our nervous system to guard the body when we are fast asleep

In psychology clarification, dream is mental motion, typically in the outline of an expected/ predictable series of events, occurring during certain stages of sleep

Different states of realization (for example: awake, asleep, aware, tired, energized, bored, focused or daydreaming) cause diverse brain wave motion. Our conscious mind (part of mind that includes everything inside our awareness, everything we perform manually, for example: eat, watching TV, study, and the rest.) takes up a very small segment of our brain activity. (People said it’s only 10%). Some other part control things like breathing, heartbeat, translating light to visualization, hearing, steadiness, etc. Some areas manage imagination. This area is widely an undiscovered border. Imagination is more than dreaming of something you have estimation to achieve.

During certain rounds of brain activity while asleep, we can "examine" these dreams with our conscious mind and verify them into our memory; this is why sometime we remember our dreams.

 

Basically, dreams are simply created and influenced by factors in your days and strength of mind, and these influences create "grouping" that are almost unlimited. Generally categorize them in terms like "prophetic, standard, physical and nightmare"

 

Everyone has experienced dreams that contain nervousness or absolute fear. These experiences can be quite traumatic or shocking. Sometime, horrible dreams or nightmares recur in actual content. For others, the content may change while the idea remains the same, such as scenes of falling, or being attacked or hunted. Research has shown that most frequent dreams are described as being disagreeable. In addition, many dream hypotheses meet in their view that this type of experience is associated with lack of progress by the dreamer to solve related conflicts in real life.

Besides of its bitter effect, nightmares can generally be useful, by knowing and realizing that nightmares can characterize opportunities for curing and point of views around us. Sometime, nightmares can make us realize and change our negative or worthless decisions or activities. One of the examples is: Dr. William Dement who was a heavy smoker; he can take up two packs of cigarette for almost every day.  Until one day, he experienced a vivid dream that he suffer lung cancer. He said”As though it were yesterday looking at the threatening shadow in my chest X-ray and recognize that the entire right lung was infiltrated.” He experienced the incredible torture by knowing his life was about to end and that not any of this would ever happened if he had quit cigarettes when he first learned of their carcinogenic outcome.