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by RESIE CAITH VINLUAN | Feature Correspondents
Usually, when the moon takes over the throne of the sun and rules the sky together with stars to light up the black ocean, this is the time to meet the sheets. The deafening silence of the night is the best point to close your eyes and stare at dark circles behind your sights. After collecting another batch of memories that sometimes stays but some will be a mystery, sleeping is the next step to move on. Laying comfortable in bed and letting your mind go have a break and forget that the clock is working. The scenes that have been created will travel the mind but every brick on it does not all composed by reality. The darkness will pull the soul at the bottom of imagination and that's the moment of the second world's appearance.
Dreams are a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep. This usually happens involuntarily in a person's thinking, it has no control over what will appear in time. Humans spend about two hours dreaming every night and each dream has a span of 5 to 20 minutes. Dreams can be entertaining, fun, romantic, disturbing, frightening, or any other feelings as long as it awakens emotions. Based on studies, 90 percent of people forget their dreams after waking up and getting out of bed. An ability of remembering can also happen.
In science, the study of dreams is called oneirology. The Activation-synthesis hypothesis is one prominent neurobiological theory of dreaming which states that dreams do not mean anything. These are electrical brain impulses that pull random thoughts and imagery from our memories. The threat simulation theory of dreaming shows that our dream consciousness is basically a natural result of evolution. Another one, social simulation theory also argues that dreamscapes provide a consequence-free zone for the brain to practice social and behavioral strategies. A lot of research and studies are coming out and attempting to solve the crossword puzzle of mystery behind dreams, but there is still no strong evidence to explain the maze of dreams.
There are different types of dreams that people are capable of experiencing; Daydreams point out a series of thoughts that distract you from the outside world, resulting for you to be less aware of your surroundings while being awake. Lucid dreaming is where the sleeper becomes aware of dreaming and can retain some control of body and mind during the dream. Nightmares are dreams that put the dreamer in fear, it gives heavy feeling and stress most commonly to those who have a previous traumatic experience. Recurring dreams refers to the repetition of experience over a multiple sleeping session. Lastly, the false-awakening dream is when the sleeper believes he has woken up from being asleep but still in the middle of dreaming.
Dreamland is as big as the real world because of the large fields or themes that minds create for the sleeper. People give an interpretation for these themes to justify and how to take the situation that happened in a dream. Most commonly, it applies to the reality of a person. Being chased in a dream can be the signal that you are running away from something or a problem rather than facing it. Death or the death of a loved one can be a sign of change in your life. Falling has already happened in many people, it has a meaning of having anxiety or having no control. Losing a tooth can be a sign that you feel unsettled about a certain event or facing a challenging decision. Being naked in public particularly means feeling of vulnerability or an unsafe environment.
Everyone builds many pictures throughout the living and unintentionally throws away the unnecessary information that also happens in dreams, this cannot hold in palm. Despite of different meaning about the scenes behind closed eyes, many still believes that dreamland is also their world, but they are the ones who wear the crown. Dreams are like leaving reality to draw a picture on the other side of the door. Falling asleep is the same way of experiencing being in temporary death. In that so, do we die here to live there and die there to live here?
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