What Are Dreams?

"Life is a dream," once said a poet, but closer to the truth is he who said that dreams are life itself. We do not need to get lost in occult and mystical speculations to clarify the notion of dreams. Man's knowledge of his body and soul has gone far enough today that we can establish and delimit the biological headquarters of the dream.

The dream has its origins neither in chance nor in a mysterious world but is the only known depths of the human soul. Of course, readers will have an objection here.

Since we all dream in our sleep, some more, some less, everyone has the right to express their opinion on this issue. And that's why most people are inclined to the theory that dreams are just smoke, foam, and nothing more. For most dreams are absurd, illogical, unreal, more than fragmentary. "Images without substance," a poet once called them.

And in them would the mysteries of the human soul be revealed? Is our soul so chaotic, so hallucinatory?

The World of dreams

What is sleep? Nothing but the rest of the conscious. But the body rests only in appearance, in reality, it is very active. The heart, lungs, intestines, all organs continue to work. The brain works and the soul does not sleep. Only the conscious is suspended.

In the waking state, man is connected to the time in which he lives, to the environment, to the place where he is, and to his duties. The world of dreams is nothing but the depths of every man, in which he immerses himself every night, who demands his rights in the rhythm of sleep and wakefulness and without whom a man would be nothing but a "bunch of reflexes" led by the outside world.

But the world of dreams is not what we usually understand when we say the word "dream", because it implies, first of all, the absence of consciousness.

It is more of a borderline phenomenon, which takes place almost on the threshold of consciousness, in that narrow "land of the soul" which belongs neither to sleep nor to wakefulness. In this sphere of semi-consciousness the wonderful world of dreams flourishes.

The unknown in us

The world of dreams: events are revealed to us that has been hidden and that by their strength, color and precision strongly impress the dreamer. The disturbance caused by a dream can be so strong after waking up that it cannot be forgotten for a long time.

It can have some consequences. If the dream does not reveal the unknown in us, it allows us to think a lot, insofar as we know how to interpret the language of the subconscious. For this, we do not need to slip into the occult and wait for the dream to play the role of a fortune teller.

Learn to dream!

The dream is a window to that inner world of man, where he makes decisions, where his desires fight among themselves, where his consciousness is strengthened and his will is clarified, but where at the same time the chief concerns of everyday life find their solution through the free play of "pure thought" uninfluenced by anything outside.

Hence the good habit of experienced people who are not only content to reflect on a difficult issue but let the night pass to judge it better. Also from here derives the experience well known to any student, namely: how a lesson read only once, can be imprinted overnight deep in the mind. How many scientists have not made interesting discoveries in their sleep?

His great professor, Justin V. Liebig, illustrates it: "Even the best theories come to man's mind without his intercession, and it is much easier to make theory than to establish a simple fact by experience." That is why it is important not to interpret dreams, but rather to let them help us.