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Dreams, the causes and the real meaning
Dreams, the causes and the real meaning Christopher Shaw http://www.abnormalpsy.org

Well I believe I will have to start off by saying that the body has a function for everything. Yes even dreams. We should start with a little fundamental background information to make the point clear, and it starts at evolution. Evolution works on the basis of combining information, and in the process utilizing it to the full effect because of the variable constants associated with it works inside on an equalized scale. Everything in nature works towards a goal to thrive with everything around them. Everything except humans which work on the basis of the environment that we created. Society, society in general neglects the laws of nature or more so redefines them based on our own standards. However the fundamental rules of evolution still created our bodies and they still run on those very same principles. It has only been recently that man has come in to his own and learned to utilize all kinds of information because of the calming affects that society has provided. It has basically taken the instinct to live out of human behaviour and totally replaced it with linear thinking. Or basically the tendency to learn things in sequence. There is a problem with this though, the human brain is not branded for this new line of thinking as we as a race are still adapting to it, as it has basically evolved up in to this point to recognize patterns, patterns that have been in nature and shape our instincts today. The sheer level of context of linear type thinking has created a bi product. A bi product called dreams. You have to realize that the human brain runs on a compromise, and is the real reason why we have such things like ADHD, alcoholism, mass amounts of drug use, schizophrenia, simply because when you combine the context of everyday life with pattern synthesis, our instinctual drive. Conflicts arise. When I say instinctual drive I mean the fact that people pass on their instinctive traits to there children in the womb. Traits caused by today’s context of living that have stressed out the rapidly maturing brain cells of the child in the womb and made them extra sensitive. Extra sensitive brain cells upstart the instinctual behaviour and put people on edge. A conflict is caused and people use external means to coup giving rise to ailments such as the ones mentioned above. In light of this the brain has a natural defence, it try’s to clear out the garbage of every day life to bring things back to an equilibrium state. That is why sleep is important as it allows our body to recuperate and let the built up stimuli accumulated dissipate from everyday living. Now I am going to borrow an idea Freud proposed, dreams in general do fulfill our needs, if we have a desire while we are sleeping, we end up acting out the desire and I have experienced this myself on multiply occasions. However it isn’t a message, all it represents is a prevailing idea to the activity going on in our head and that activity takes precedence over anything else because it deals with a need that we need to satisfy at that moment, and in a way it also represents the balance that our body is constantly trying to reach, if we need something then it reacts accordingly. It really is that simply, but using Freud's model that he proposed I am going to take it one step higher. Right up to the unconscious level of activity as his model proposed deals only with the conscious part. However the unconscious part deals with the annual cleaning out of ideas that would be considered cluttered, and hence dreams are born. Clutter that has accumulated from the context of everyday life, dreams are derived from the calming of neurons, when the neurons enter hibernation they release the ideas which in affect turn into dreams, and it is also why we forget them almost instantly, simply because the idea is being released. However if those ideas are not cleaned out then they cause conflicts. Conflicts such as schizophrenia that arise in the middle of the day to turn the person into a walking dreamer, basically making the person lose conscious control of their body while the unconscious takes control to provide emergency cleaning. Again the unconscious was developed first and therefore still controls aspects of who we are, and therefore we are still a slave to it when the need arises. This also lends to the notion that people who live rather sheltered lives develop better, I am talking about the general here simply because it encompasses most of the population. Ailments among people who grew up in a good home rarely come forth. Simply because of the premise that I mentioned earlier, extra sensitive cells vs. the notion of compromise representing conflict between instinctual drive and the context of every day life. I personally believe just like anything else, if the foundations are thwarted then everything after that point gets modified in a negative way as well. It really is that simple. If people want to find a cause for today’s various ailments, then they have to start listening to every aspect of life, the environment around us, and even start thinking outside the box but most of all start listening. You will get a lot further in life if you just listen and incorporate as many ideas as you possible can into your thought process. Just because something is taught in a linear fashion doesn’t always make it correct, it just makes it common. And dreams certainly are a part of a larger scheme of things. To equalize the body back to an optimal state. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wizkid007 (talk • contribs) 14:43, 3 May 2007 (UTC).