riod which is 100 minutes
             per night. Research also shows that vivid dreams do not
             develop in children until they are about eight years old.
             Some reports show that by age two some kind of dream already
             occur. Most children seem to dream about their fears or
             traumas they have experienced. (Hartmann 241 - 217)
             Another great mystery of the sleeping mind is if
             animals dream. Since almost all mammals have REM sleep we
             can assume that all mammals dream. Although REM sleep does
             indicate brain activity and we dream during REM sleep we do
             not know this as a fact because we cannot just ask an animal
             if it dreamt. However, in other animals such mammals such as
             birds, have long periods of REM sleep when they are younger
             and as they get older the REM periods get shorter. (Lavie
             Also, dreams are delayed at least a four weeks. Michel
             Jouvet did a test to see how fast our dreams start to relate
             to what is happening in our lives. Jouvet taught college
             during the Gulf War and two or three days after the first
             missiles hit Israel he told his students to fill out a
             survey on their dreams. Very few students had reported
             dreams about the war even tough it was a while since
             the attacks. However, five weeks later he took another
             survey and almost half of the students dream had to do with
             the war some way or another. (Lavie 72 and 73)
             Interest in dreams has been around for thousands of
             years even before Christ was born. People thought of dreams
             as an important part of their lives. Some ancient
             civilizations like the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Greeks
             thought dreams were a kind of communication between the gods
             and mortals. Various Native American tribes believed that
             the person's soul leaves the body to travel the world and
             then when the person woke up his/her soul came back. In
             other ancient cultures slept in temples in Egypt because
             they believed they woul...