THE THEORY OF DREAMINGBy Thoughts Deciphered into Words

Writer – Raja Abdarrahman

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For ages people have been scratching their heads to discover the real

reason behind various sets of familiar and unfamiliar images that are projected in human minds while sleeping. Dreaming has always been

a fascinating subject and like all the fascinating subjects, it infects you

with the craving to find out more and more about it. However, satisfying

that hunger hasn’t proven to be an easy task.

HISTORY OF THE RESEARCH

For millions of years, humans have been trying to discover the reasons behind the appearance of dreams.

Some started to believe that people dream to connect to the supernatural universe.

Some argued that they’re but a type of God gifted attributes that every human being possesses. This feature lets the people to predict the future and plan accordingly.

Others stated that humans actually dream to relax themselves, they’re just mere images and they don’t mean anything.

EVOLUTION OF THE RESEARCH

People had many different notions about how and why humans

dream. Some of them made sense and still do, but most of them

always stood on the other side of sanity.

A scientific and technological base was given to dreaming in the

19th century. That’s when Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist,

first got a theory on dreams recognized on a large scale.

This theory of Sigmund Freud is called: The Freud’s Theory.

The Freud’s Theory

The theory says that dreams are actually a way to re-experience a

moment in the manner that fulfills your desires.

Meaning that dreams are a way adapted by human beings to

relive life in order to get rid of the imperfections.

This theory has been a base to many researches that are being

carried out today.

Modern Research on Dreaming

Since the formation of Freud’s theory, many learners of

neuroscience from around the world have been involved in the

process of continuing the quest.

Some of them have been trying to find out why do we dream.

Others have given all their devotion to conclude the legitimate

answer to one of the most convoluted questions ever asked: How

do we dream?

And in this quest, three most significant theories have managed to

be formed.

The Three Theories

The three most significant out of all the theories formed are:

Mental housekeeping theory

Activation synthesis hypothesis

The dream-soul hypothesis

Mental Housekeeping Theory

The root of this theory links with “The Freud’s Theory”.

The mental house keeping theory proposes that we dream so that

the unwanted content can be eliminated from our everyday

experiences.

Indicating that dreaming is a self-driven stress removing function of

the brain that activates whenever humans do not like the

circumstances they’re undergoing.

Activation Synthesis Hypothesis

Dreams are nothing but mere signals transmitted while humans

sleep to gather notions and moments from their memories.

And when they wake up, they build a story out of the dreams to

make sense out of it all.

This theory has been extensively researched upon, and so far,

neurologists have come to advocate that dreams have a strong

connection with our memories, which is not anything supernatural.

Activation Synthesis Hypothesis

The neurobiologists say that we have already lived what we see in

the dreams.

However, this argument does not appease the situations where a

person visits the place completely strange to him.

But, this theory is being extensively researched upon so that it can

be neared to perfection.

The Dream-Soul Hypothesis

Unlike the theories stated above which have a completely scientific

origin, this theory was basically initiated by religious thought and is

now taken on by a group of neurologists in Australia.

As indicated by the name, this theory says that dreaming is actually

a process related with one’s soul.

When a person sleeps, his soul departs the body though still

connected through an invisible medium.

The Dream-Soul Hypothesis

It further says that the person gets to see where ever the soul goes,

meet whoever the soul meets and literally experience whatever the

soul goes through in the dream.

This theory answers the following questions:

Why we meet dead people in our dreams?

Why you feel like you’ve been to a place before, when actually it’s

your first time there?

The Dream-Soul Hypothesis – how

the dream ends?

When the soul comes back from this expedition, the person is ready

to wake up.

It is also said that in order for the soul to re-enter the body, it has to

find it’s way back.

Have you ever wondered why you get so disturbed when someone

tries to wake you up from a deep sleep? It’s because your soul is

trying to find the right way.

The Dream-Soul Hypothesis – the

extension

An extension to this theory is that if somehow the soul does not

manage to find the way back, the person enters a stage where he

can feel everything but not wake up.

This situation is commonly known as “coma”.

The period a person takes to get out of coma depends on the time

his soul takes to get back to the body.

The Dream-Soul Hypothesis

This theory does lack the proper scientific reasoning, because science

rejects to admit the presence of souls. But, it’s still the most intriguing of

all and scientists have agreed to excerpt the truth out of it.

Benefits of the Research

Along with work being done on the theories stated above, there are

many researches presently going on around the globe to take the

idea of dreams to perfection. The neurologists are doing all they can in all the possible dimensions to extract the information. And,

they’re doing it not only to cool the global curiosity, but also to take

proper benefits from dreaming.

Yes, dreams do have benefits!

Benefits of the Research – why

possible?

In some societies, dreams are used to cure illnesses.

In some, dreams can be used to predict the future.

These benefits do not seem to exist at all, but who believed in a light

bulb before it was brought into existence?

Imagine a world, where dreams could be used to make things right. Imagine a world where illusions

could be used to construct a better reality.

Believe in science.

Have hope.

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