minant side, comes to life, therefore now becoming the dominant side. Our creative/empathic side is then released into a dream. We experience this at more of a "feeling level" than a cause and effect or a time and space level. We learn skills from the two and become dependent to manage the two different worlds.
Dreams are the products of an unconscious mind. The controlling parts of your mind, your conscious, becomes relaxed and all your thoughts and feelings get stored up, in your unconscious mind. It obeys its own logic and describes things in its own way. Word pictures are used as a chain of connections. This is why in dreams people do impossible things or shift quickly from scene to scene. Dreams are often unusually vivid in their mood or in what you see. Sometimes the feelings produced from dreams are so strong that they affect the dreamer's mood for the next day. This is known as, "waking up on the wrong side of the bed".
Many people wonder what dreams are for. The unconscious mind has a method of straightening out experiences. While the conscious part of the mind is in active, the unconscious or your subconscious, will find new facts, situations, worries, fears, desires, and more. All of this new information draws up emotions of your mind and memory. Visual and emotional images of these feelings are shown to you in a dream. For example, you may have a certain problem in which you are thinking about, but consciously putting it aside. This problem goes into your unconscious, and more than likely, will appear to you in a dream.
Sometimes dreams can offer possible solutions to your problem and advise you in different directions.
Modern understandings of the nature of sleeping began over forty years ago. In 1952 a researcher noticed sometime during a period of sleep, eyes of the sleeper were seen moving all around their closed eyelids as if watching moving objects. These motions a...