Dreaming and Dream Psychology

The Many Functions of Dreaming

Schools of Thought in Dream Interpretation

The Enigmatic Dreaming Brain

What is the role of our dreams during sleep? How do these nightly performances our psyche puts on for us benefit our waking lives?

Is dreaming a part of our journey home—the journey back to the beginning? Are dreams essential to the pilgrimage of the soul?

A dream is not just something that happens to you. The reverse is true: you happen to your dreams, in the sense that you actively create everything that you experience in them.

The central function of dreaming is to process our emotions—understanding our sense of self, who we are, and our needs and beliefs. We're also using that time to consolidate our memories.

People often consider dreams to be a series of images, but they're a flow of emotions. Dreams are a natural way of creating a living book of who we are, carried out through vivid imagery and heartfelt emotions.

The Many Functions of Dreaming

The multiple functions of dreaming derive from the autonomous intelligence of the unconscious and from the dynamic powers of the brain and body during sleep.

Researchers now believe that dreaming plays a role in memory consolidation and mood regulation, like overnight therapy.

Dreams are our brain’s way of sorting through information. During sleep, especially REM sleep, we:

Consolidate memories

Process emotions

Express our deepest desires

Gain practice confronting potential dangers

“It is only in a state of dreaming that we can fly alongside birds who live happily without the help of an airship or balloon.”

~ Mark Zuleger-Thyss

Les rêves vous aident à trouver des perles de sagesse

Les rêves élargissent l'ouverture de la conscience, la circonférence de la perception et la sphère de l'identité. Il le fait grâce à sa capacité à regarder en arrière et en avant simultanément.

Les messages souvent humoristiques et paradoxaux révélés par les rêves ouvrent et dénouent de nouvelles perceptions.

Accueilli avec respect, chaque rêve devient une perle des profondeurs de l'océan de l'inconscient.

Schools of Thought in Dream Interpretation

A Mental Spring Cleaning

Humans spend about two hours per night dreaming - a twelfth of our lives.

When awake, we're only consciously aware of approximately 2% of what we're experiencing. That other 98% of unconscious awareness is emotional. We absorb a massive amount of emotional, experiential information during the day, and our brain must do something with it.

Many researchers believe that dreaming is essential to mental, emotional, and physical well-being, yet others suggest dreams serve no real purpose.

Dreaming often has a fantastical feel. While dreaming, we may live out scenarios that are impossible in real life. And as magical as they may feel, we now know that dreams are equal parts psychological and neurological, developing in response to heightened activity in the brain's outer layer, called the cortex.

While we dream, the brain sorts through what information it should keep and what it should forget. It directs our mind to create images and stories to optimally manage all this activity.

The journal Brain Science Advances published research in 2019 suggesting that "sleep-dependent memory consolidation" exists and that memory processing occurs during both REM and non-rem (NREM) sleep.

The theory is that dreams often reflect things that happen when a person is awake. The resting brain retrieves that information, digesting it, and learning from it. It's also believed to be the stage in which memories get eliminated, updated, or edited.

Understanding Your Dreams

Dreams help to ...

Sort and consolidate memories; eliminate, update, or edit

Process emotions; dreaming is like overnight therapy

Dreams reflect what happens when a person is awake

Express our deepest desires

Gain practice confronting potential dangers

Dreaming enhances creativity and problem-solving

Occurs during REM and non-REM sleep

Due to heightened activity in Cortex

Essential to wellbeing

Dreams are a guiding source of life Jung called the Self

Dreams aid in the process of individuation by fulfilling our innate possibilities for becoming whole and living liberated and loving lives

Is the Cerebellum ‘The Seat of the Soul?’

The journey home is the journey back to the beginning.

The pilgrimage of the Soul.

Amid our incompleteness, the only option for us is to go out into the world, searching for wholeness in the form of a living experience of self-knowledge.

The Soul, not the body, holds the essential being of existence. The cerebellum at the back of the brain directly aligns with the brain stem. Its three lobes, forming a heart shape, are interconnected as one. This very oneness/godliness is the essence of the human Soul.

Are dreams messages from the gods? Do they assist us in recapturing the loss of oneness, which is the true Self or Soul?

Read on to learn more on the topic of how dreams help us.

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