bhanu hima kumar: Good night sweat dreams

Good night sweat dreams...yeah thats the last message we usually send to our dear one's every night,let us know something intresting about our daily wish

Dreams are basically stories and images our mind creates while we sleep. Dreams can be vivid. They can make you feel happy, sad, or scared. And they may seem confusing or perfectly rational.

Dreams can occur anytime during sleep. But most vivid dreams occur during deep, REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, when the brain is most active. Some experts say we dream at least four to six times per night.

There are many theories about why we dream, but no one knows for sure.

Studies have shown the importance of dreams to our health and well-being. In one study, researchers woke subjects just as they were drifting off into REM sleep

They found that those who were not allowed to dream experienced:

Increased tension
Anxiety
Depression
Difficulty concentrating
Lack of coordination
Weightgain
Tendency to hallucinate

Many experts say that dreams exist to:

Help solve problems in our lives
Incorporate memories
Process emotions

Sigmund Freud believed dreams are a window into our subconscious. He believed they reveal a person's:

Unconscious desires
Thoughts
Motivations

Freud thought dreams were a way for people to satisfy urges and desires that were unacceptable to society.

Freud said that whether we intend it or not, we're all poets. That's because on most nights, we dream. And dreams are lot like poetry, in that in both, we express our internal life in similar ways. We conjure images; we combine incongruent elements to evoke emotion in a more efficient way than wordier descriptions can; and we use unconsciousand tangential associations rather than logic to tell a story.

Why Do Nightmares Occur?

Nightmares, or bad dreams, are common in children and adults. Often nightmares are caused by:

Stress, conflict, and fear
Trauma
Emotional problems
Medicationor drug use
Illness

If you have a recurring nightmare, your subconscious may be trying to tell you something. Listen to it.

Keep in mind that no matter how scary a nightmare is, it is not real and most likely will not happen to you in real life

What Are Lucid Dreams?

Have you ever had a dream where you knew you were dreaming during your dream? This is called a lucid dream. Research has shown that lucid dreaming is accompanied by an increased activation of parts of the brain that are normally suppressed during sleep. Lucid dreaming represents a brain state between REM sleep and being awake.

Some people who are lucid dreamers are able to influence the direction of their dream, changing the story so to speak. While this may be a good tactic to take, especially during a nightmare, many dream experts say it is better to let your dreams occur naturally.

Why Are Dreams Hard to Remember?

Researchers don't know for sure why dreams are easily forgotten. Maybe we are designed to forget our dreams because if we remembered all our dreams, we might not be able to distinguish dreams from real memories.

Also, it may be harder to remember dreams because during REM sleep our body may shut down systems in our brain responsible for creating memories. We may only remember dreams that occur just before we wake, when certain brain activities have been turned back on.

Some say our minds don't actually forget dreams, we just don't know how to access them. Dreams may be stored in our memory, waiting to be recalled. This notion may explain why you may suddenly remember a dream later in the day -- something may have happened to trigger the memory.