Dreams

Since the dawn of mankind dreams have been one of the biggest mysteries in the world. For decades, modern-day scientists, researchers, and psychologists have tried to explain the meaning of dreams. Why do we dream? What are dreams? Why dreams seem so real? These are only a few of the questions we have. Researchers have given us many explanations and theories. Scientists claim that the purpose of dreams is to organize our memories, while psychologists think that dreams are a tool of the brain that help us cope with complicated situations in day-to-day life. There are many theories, but the mystery stays the same, and no one knows what dreams really are.

Facts about Dreams

Let's begin with what we already know. Everyone dreams, but not everybody remembers. We dream several times every night, depending on our sleep cycles, which are an hour and a half each time. The longest dream is the last one. Dreams takes only minutes; however, many times it seems to us that it is taking much longer in the dream itself. Hours and days may pass in the dream, while in reality only a few moments have gone by. There is another very important thing about dreams, maybe the most important of all: dreams seem very real to us. Sometimes we think the things we experience in a dream are truly happening. Dreams also take us to different places, times, and situations. We can dream we are in the middle of the Second World War or go back to medieval times. At other times we can dream about meeting new people and traveling to different places and worlds. But all dreams have this unique sensation that they are really happening. We do believe that only a moment ago we walked in Paris, and we did feel the impact when we fell in a dream. So how can it be? How can one explain that even though we are asleep in our bed in our room, and our body doesn't move, we still go through these remarkable experiences? As mentioned, scientists and psychologists have speculated about the essence of dreams, but we can say with a great deal of confidence that their conclusions just don't add up.

String Theory

Before we suggest our solution, we would like to call attention to a new and exciting research field in physics called quantum physics. When scientists studied the smallest particles in the universe, they encountered a strange phenomenon. What they found was that there are times when the particles are "here" and times when they aren't. It may sound strange, but this is exactly what the researchers found. Sometimes the particles existed in reality, and there were times when they seemed to disappear. The question that everyone immediately asked was, where do these particles go when they are not here, in our reality? Answering this question basically created a new theory called, string theory. The theory argues that the disappearing particles change frequency, a different frequency from our reality, so we can't perceive them "here," a frequency that is basically a different reality. According to string theory, there is another reality to which the disappearing particles move when they are not here, in our reality. In fact, according to the theory, there is more than just one other reality; there are countless realities. These realities represent parallel worlds, exist in different frequencies, that we and our reality can't perceive. These worlds might be similar to our own, but they may be very different.

Dreaming, Sleeping and String Theory

If parallel worlds do exist, as modern physics argues, they sure sound like the places we go in our dreams. Places that seem very similar to our world but at times seem totally different. If we take this line of thought one step ahead, maybe, when we are dreaming, our perception/consciousness/soul acts like those disappearing particles and actually "disappears" from our reality and moves to a different reality, a parallel world if you like. You have to admit it makes sense. Maybe dreams are our window to different realities? We do know that when we go to sleep, our brainwave frequencies change; they move from Beta waves to Theta,so our consciousness level changes as well (and that is why we fall asleep). This change in brainwave frequency, appears similar to the one our particles go through when they disappear from our reality. If, as string theory suggests, particles that change their frequency can move to another reality, why can't our consciousness do the same when our brainwave frequency changes?

No matter what you think of dreams, this is a mystery that will surely puzzle us for years to come. Sweet dreams...

How to improve your dreams?

1. While lying in bed, right before you go to sleep, meditate. During this meditation repeatedly tell yourself you're going to remember your dreams. You can also use the following soundtrack to improve your meditation: Free Stream 

2. As soon as you wake up, morning or night, write down your dreams in a diary.

3. That's it. Once you do these two steps every night, before you know it, you will have amazing, thrilling, and vivid dreams.