What Are Dreams? A Simple Guide to How and Why We Dream

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🌙 What Are Dreams? The Mind’s Secret Movie Screen

📖 Understanding Dreams

What exactly are dreams?
Dreams are imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping. In simple terms:

  1. A dream is what you see through your mind while asleep.

  2. Dreaming is the act of seeing those images and events in your sleep.

Dreams keep us mentally busy while we sleep — and to be honest, they can be quite entertaining too.

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😴 When Do We Dream?

For anyone to dream, they must first fall asleep. Anything experienced outside of sleep isn’t classified as a dream in this context.

During sleep, there’s a particular stage called REM (Rapid Eye Movement), where the brain becomes highly active — almost as active as when we’re awake. It’s at this stage that most vivid dreams happen.

🧠 What Happens in the Brain During a Dream?

During REM sleep:

  • The pons (a part of the brainstem just below the cerebral cortex) signals the cerebral cortex and thalamus to activate visual images, memory, and emotions.

  • This is why we don’t just see dreams — we actually feel them in every sense.

Also, certain hormones and neurotransmitters shift:

  • Acetylcholine levels increase, which helps REM sleep and enhances vivid dreaming.

  • Serotonin and norepinephrine levels drop, explaining why we forget most of our dreams after waking.

Personally, I believe this could be the mind’s way of easing the emotional intensity of certain dreams.

🌌 Why Do We Dream?

Dreams might help us process emotions and make sense of events or thoughts, even when we forget the actual dream itself.

This might explain why:

  • We often dream about success or a bright future after reflecting on our goals.

  • Or why we sometimes dream of losing a loved one before we even know something bad has happened.

🎥 Final Thought: Your Mind, the Movie Director

In the end, dreams are much more than random images — they’re deeply tied to our emotions, memories, and thoughts.

So next time you wake up from a dream, remember:
Your mind is a movie director of its own.

 

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Moses john - Jul 8, 2025, 5:52 PM - Add Reply

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I was born on the 2nd of July 2005 Like to write, a little sassy and I have a wild imagination 😉