A dream is a wish your heart makes. - Walt Disney

There has been a lot of research trying to shed light on how and why we remember dreams - and what purpose they are likely to serve.

For centuries scientists and researchers have pondered the meaning of dreams. It's an incredibly fascinating phenomena and field of study without any doubt. I bet all of us know that feeling of waking up in the morning and thinking:

Wait! Where did these images come from?

In many ancient societies, such as those of Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be interpreted by people with these associated spiritual powers.

Even though I'm not considering myself being supernatural, I love being inspired by these magical adventures that happen to us at night. Maybe they appear for a reason. That's why I often write them down to then spin them out during the day and like that turning an unreal phenomena into something real.

Actually a lot of dreams in my life have been the very beginning of a future plan, a new project or at least an idea. Currently I'm working on a dream I had a couple of weeks ago. Supposedly that one will keep me busy for the next decade since it was one of the bigger flashes - a lifetime dream.

Now the time between one year and the next is perfect to design new dreams, whether while we're sleeping or awake. One chapter closes and another one opens, the blackboard of life is going to be cleaned again leaving a lot of space to write down new stories.

Here's to the importance of dreams and their ability to guide our lives into the right direction.

@surfermarly on the Christmas Eve

I had a dream!

Independently if you're a scientist or not, why would you believe people have incredibly inspiring dreams if they had no meaning?

Walt Disney said once:

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I second that, and also wouldn't make any difference between the dreams that appear at night and the ones we live during the day. In the end they're all products of the very same brain.

At the end of the nineteenth century great philosophers like Sigmund Freud tried to put forth some of the most widely-known modern theories of dreaming. Freud's theory centred around the notion of repressed longing; the idea that dreaming allows us to sort through unresolved, repressed wishes. (The Science Behind Dreaming)

Now recent scientific studies proved that dreams seem to help us process emotions by encoding and constructing memories of them.

What we visualize and experience in our dreams might not necessarily be real, but the emotions attached to these events (those that we still feel when already being awake) certainly are.

Dreams help us to process memories and associated emotions, supposedly bringing the most intense - those that keep us busy (consciously or not) - to the front.

In the past I often had the sensation that some of my dreams visualized what I had been silently thinking about for a while but didn't dare to speak it out openly.

I definitely felt that some of these dreams had the power to push me into the right direction.

Now some of you might still think that this is child's play or nonsense, since the one and only reality is taking place when our eyes are open and our mind's awake.

But how could we know?

Who would be able to prove that our thoughts are more valuable during the day than at night? Just because we experience them consciously and have the sensation to somehow control them they're more real?

Maybe a dream is a message we're sending to ourselves, hidden in the darkness of the night.

Dreams empower us to become whatever we want in life.

In dreams we have super power. We build huge castles in the air, travel to foreign places we've never been to before, meet people that seem unavailable to us in real life and sometimes we even save the whole world.

No matter where these flashes come from or how they arise, I really believe in their purpose. Thus, I've always taken them seriously.

We may not be able to build a castle in the air, but we could build that imaginary castle - the product of our thoughts - on the ground and transform our dream house into a home.

Dreams are little notes, and we should decode and read them carefully.

Sweet dreams, steemians!

Marly -

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