Despite the multitude of expert studies today, it has not been settled why we dream at all. It is basically understood that dreams are coordinated imageries and sensations of all the brain's functions that consolidate during the process of sleep. It is also possible to propose that these imageries form as the entire body undergoes its recuperative, rebuilding, and rebalancing task for cells and certain faculties. But what is yet unexplained is how and why do dreams provide somewhat prophetic images that relate to future experiences, as they do past experiences, including situations that occur even as the individual is yet deep in sleep.
Scientists will most likely refer to the human body's ability to be aware even in its state of sleep. Many of us, they will assert, perceive the one asleep as an appliance turned off. In such as state, it contributes nothing to the environment for the moment. The mistake lies in the assumption that it is unresponsive to stimuli that threaten the dreamer's survival. Dream is just one facility that alarms us of an external hazard. How this occurs may depend on the body's ability to respond during a certain situation.
Even in more ancient times, dreams were also understood to aid human survival. Almost every culture that the world has ever known believed that the spiritual world had a responsibility in supporting and preserving life in the material sphere. And dreams were known to be a major avenue for this. Christian believers themselves will attest to this while referring to countless accounts from the Bible, from the birth of the nation of Israel six thousand years ago to the birth of Jesus Christ four thousand years later. In another example, among the Koreans today, it is believed that dreams play a profound role in naming a child.
Yet on a more special note, there is a phenomenon called "creative dreams," from which the dreamer derives a sudden burst of original inspiration that had been devoid during his waking moments. One of the best examples of this was that of the 18th-century Italian musician Giuseppe Tartini. In a dream, he heard a tune so exquisite being played on the violin by the devil. So lovely was the tune, in fact, that he was moved to tears. Awakening from the dream, he endeavored hard to remember the tune by documenting every detail he could. What resulted was the classic "The Devil's Trill."
Is it possible for people to have an over-reaction of dreams? Perhaps what this question means is an extreme case where dreams become so intense so as to affect physical faculties. Nightmares are an example of such, and even a more extreme case called a waking dream disorder. Individuals who have this disorder often learn to live under the terror of having these "real nightmares" all throughout their lives.
Psychologists explain that a malfunction in their brain occasionally occurs when their dream mechanism, which normally stops automatically when the waking office of the brain turns on, fails to shut off. As a result, the individual sees his nightmare function around his physical environment as if it were truly a part of the real world. It is amazing to note that people worldwide suffering from a waking dream disorder report the presence of either a shadow of a huge, naked, muscular male; or that of a withered old crone. These nightmare entities are often seen and felt sitting on the victim's chest that can be related to a difficulty in breathing.
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