I Dream....and want you to dream...too

Hey friends...

It’s really nice to see you back and to tell you very frankly i missed you all a lot. To tell you very frankly there have been many occasions when I felt very alone and wanted to share you my experiences. Finally, I am happy to have one wide platform where I can share my views and some learning that life has taught me in this last 25 years. In my previous blog, in fact my first blog I wrote about thoughts. I do want to write about thoughts but I will talk about this subject in my next blog. However, today I am in mood to share about one gift that our mind performs when you and I have a sound sleep...and it belongs to everybody. No matter whether you are rich, poor, high elite class business professionals or typical middle-class labour....no matter whether you are Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh....no matter whether you are new born baby or a man with age around 50 or 60+.

Yes....this time you guess it right, and it is DREAM. So can anybody explain me what is dream all about? Do you really dream? Can anyone differentiate about realistic dream or just a dream? And finally can anyone answer me why do really dream. However, if we go through a dictionary and look for the meaning of dream then it means- The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are a communication of body, mind and spirit in a symbolic communicative environmental state of being. That's it! Now let me explain in a more down to earth language. Our brains are in constant activity. Different states of consciousness (like awake, asleep, alert, drowsy, excited, bored, concentrating or daydreaming) cause different brain wave activity. Our conscious mind, or the part we think with, our "window" into life, only takes up a very small portion of our brain activity. Other areas control things like breathing, heartbeat, converting light to vision, sound to hearing, balance when we walk, etc. etc. This too has it's own percentage (small). Another area controls imagination. This area is widely an undiscovered frontier.

Now, every day our mind came across different state-of –frame, and sometimes cannot deal with chaos very well, in fact it either resist or sometimes manufacture order. (very important to the dreaming process.)This too occupies a small percentage of brain activity. Then there is memory. Memory is vast and I believe it occupies more of the brains resources then most people believe and then there is the activity called dreaming. I think that to a certain extent, we dream all the time. Even while awake! But the process is functioning in our subconscious mind, out of view from our "window". If defined precisely, they may not be referred to as dreams technically, but the activity is very closely related.

However, if we look for an answer for why we actually dream, then as per Dr. Saurabh Prakash,M.B.B.S we dream during the REM, or rapid eye movement, phase of sleep. During this phase of sleep, our closed eyes dart rapidly about, our brain activity peaks. Two different schools of thought exist as to why we dream: the physiological school, and the psychological school.
As per physiological theory, we dream to exercise the synapses, or pathways, between brain cells, and that dreaming takes over where the active and awake brain leaves off. When awake, our brains constantly transmit and receive messages, which course through our billions of brain cells to their appropriate destinations, and keep our bodies in perpetual motion. Dreams replace this function.

Psychological theorists of dreams focus upon our thoughts and emotions, and speculate that dreams deal with immediate concerns in our lives. Connections between dreams that the human psyche have been made by many people over thousands of years. The famous Greek philosopher, Aristotle wrote in his "Parva Naturalia," over 2,200 years ago, of a connection between dreams, waking experiences, and emotional needs.

Well, friends I will try to explain more about dream sin my next blog. Just wait for some time...and till then have a good sleep and do dream about dream.