Why Do People Dream and What Cause Them?
There’s differing views that attempt to answer the question “why do people dream?” There are several scientific and mystical theories as to why people dream but the truth is we really don’t know for sure. A dictionary definition of dreams, and therefore a good starting point for an answer to the question why do people dream, states that dreaming is “a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep”. Take note though that dreams are not always involuntary and I will return to this point a little later! Psycho-analysts are fascinated with dreams. Sigmund Freud asked the question why do people dream and saw dreams, in his psychoanalytic model, as repressed or suppressed desires which people hide from themselves in the waking state. Freud believed that such unexpressed wants were symbolically represented in the dream state in order that a person could express them in a safe way. There are mystical schools of thought that
