Why do animals dream? Are the reams instructions from the spiritual world or just deep, hidden wishes that can be used to unlock the secrets of the unconscious mind? Nobody knows for sure, but one theory that I found is prevalent is that dreams result from the physiological "exercise" or the synapses of the brain. There is no proven research that can declare why mammals dream, which is the reason as to why there are so many theories on the topic. Some theories that I read have evolved from such famous doctors as Sigmund Freud. The theories involved are mind boggling, but if read carefully, can put anyone into deep thought as to a logical reason for their dreams. This process of thinking is called interpreting or analyzing.

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The average person spends about one third of their life sleeping. Eight hours is the average hours of sleep for the young adolescent or adult. Before one can interpret their dreams, they must learn to recognize what they are dreaming, this is called lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is usually induced by hypnosis or something that indicates to the person that what they are experiencing is a dream, and not reality. Lucid dreaming was defined as becoming aware of what one is dreaming; the actual level of awareness varies, however. When the level of lucidity is high, one can be well aware that nothing that is experienced is real, and that they have nothing to fear--they can not be harmed by any situations that may seem dangerous.

Although sleep may seem like a steady state, it actually consists of several stages that cycle throughout the night. The types of brain waves (based on amplitudes and frequencies) determine the stages of sleep. I have researched that lucid dreams occur in the 5th stage of sleep, known as Rapid Eye Movement (REM) stage. As the name states, the most profound characteristic of REM sleep is the bursts of rapid eye movement while dreaming. One complete sleep cycle lasts about ninety to one hundred minutes; therefore during an average sleep period a person will experience four to five complete sleep cycles. The sleep cycle begins with four stages of Slow Wave Sleep (SWS, also called NREM or Non-REM). These stages then quickly reverse, and are directly followed by the first REM period. As the night proceeds, the length of stages three and four (also called delta or deep sleep) begins to wane, and the length of REM sleep increases, up to one full hour in length after a number of cycles. Therefore, as the night rages on, your dreams take longer periods of time.

Many scientists would believe that the subconscious mind is an attempt to file away all of the information from the previous day to result in a dream. In recent laboratory tests that I examined, when people were awoken during the REM stage of sleep and asked to report what was on their mind just before awaking, about ninety percent reported an experience termed "true dream". When a true dream is experienced it seems so surreal that the event could not be characterized as real or a lifelike figment of their imagination. (Health Website Poll) True dreams often involve a series of experiences woven together into a fascin

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