What are dreams?
Dreams are such an important part of our existence – our mind and our subconscious – that we often are overwhelmed by this one question: ‘what are dreams?’
Dreams are defined as ‘a series of thoughts, images or emotions that occur during sleep’. There are several stages of sleep, with its ‘onset’ indicating that the body temperature drops, the heart rate and breathing regulate, and a person becomes disassociated from his/her surroundings. However, even in the deepest slumbers, our brains remain active and keep on processing information.
A general psychology based definition of dreams would consider dreams as – ‘Those images that come to us from our ‘deeper’ self, who is much more aware of certain things than we are, on a conscious level; and even those images that may potentially have come from an ‘outside’ source’.
In fact, our dreams consist of imagery from our most pressing thoughts and personal experiences. However, at times, our dreams can be special too - they can communicate with us, if we allow them to, and also if we pay heed to them!
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