Dreams are events all humans have experienced many times, and will experience again while sleeping, the sensory and cognitive occurrences created by the brain during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep are important insights into the psyche of a person as well as vital events in psychological development. From inside the womb, humans sleep in REM and dream, this basic process of life, that yet is still so unknown for most. Why do we dream, and why do our dreams appear the way they do. Dreams are artificial cognitive and sensory information created in the brain by the pons during the REM stage of sleep, in which the limbs of a body are paralyzed and stimulates the cerebral cortex, responsible for learning, in the brain. Because infants spend much more time in this REM sleep, …show more content…
People learn to work with others, to help humankind, and realize self actualization. If humans didn’t learn, and learn as fast as they do, it could very well be that there would be no communication, no philosophy, or science, any of the higher levels of learning that humans strive for to not only survive, but thrive, and develop even more potential for all life. Learning being so important, it could easily be that dreaming, is more important, as the instrument to learning and survival.
Not only do dreams encourage learning in the brain, they could also provide the brain a coping mechanism for stress and a window into the subconscious of a person. Dreams are for most people, a recollection of familiar events, though not vibrant memories replayed, dreams are usually and embellishment of situations the person has experienced. We seem to dream in extremes, and often people are out of character within the dream realm, being the rich and vibrant, or courageous hero in their dreams. Dreams appear to be molded by a person's mood and reflect that in their dreams, usually in an opposite