Men and women throughout the ages have studied dreams. According to Webster's Dictionary dreams are defined as "states of consciousness occurring during sleep." Some say that dreams are an interrelation between the present, the past, and the future. "In dreams, one creates a world where space and time have no limiting power," stated Peter Rogers of the Association for the Study of Dreams (Baker 19). In Professor Dunne's book, An Experiment with Time, he proposed a theory that time is like a river that one can navigate through. His thinking is that one could travel in his dreams forward, backward, or even sideways.

The German philosopher, Herder, said that dreams are but the ideals of all of the poetic arts (Miller). Back in the 19th Century, F. W. Hildebrandt stated, "Dreams help us to inspect those hidden depths of our existence which are mostly beyond our reach durin

Nearly everything that happens during sleep is forgotten by morning. There is something about the wonder of sleep itself, which makes it difficult to remember what has occurred, and most dreams are forgotten unless they are written down. Only sometimes a dream can be remembered later on that day, suggesting that the memory is not totally lost.

g our waking hours" (Baker 25). Hildebrandt went on to note that dreams are hints of self-knowledge and that a dream serves as a warning to someone's behaviors.

because it is in one's dream where all things are possible. In dreams, people can perform superhuman and wonderful feats that would normally be unfeasible in the "awake world" (Robinson 5).

Nightmares are very common among children and fairly common among adults. Stress, traumatic experiences, emotional difficulties, drugs or medication, or illness often cause nightmares (Robinson 45). However, some people have frequent nightmares that seem unrelated to their awake lives. Some studies suggest that people that experience nightmares fairly frequently tend to be more open, sensitive, trusting, and emotional than the average person.

Dunne, Charles. An Experiment with Time. New York: Bronson Bros. 1993.

With all the great minds out there that have predictions to what a dream is, there are certain facts. For instance, most dreams are in the form of visual images. Every human emotion and experience can be reflected in dreams (Danne 34). Everyone has dreams. Laboratory studies have shown that dreams are most vivid

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