You can see on RG my article about New hypothesis about functions of sleep and dream.

Regards,

Prof.dr Nikola Ilankovic

Eminent Professor - Dr. Nikola Ilankovic:

Muchas Gracias!

I have downloaded your research article and I have enclosed it with this reply.

I request ResearchGate friends to read Professor Nikola's article titled - "New Hypothesis and Theory about Functions of Sleep and Dreams" (Authors: Nikola N. Ilanković*, Andrej N. Ilanković, Vera Ilanković) (Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences. 2014 Mar 15; 7(1):78-82.)

I mention below aims from Professor's paper - kindly read full paper for details:

"The aims of the study were: 1. revealing the new indicator(s) in internal organization of sleep in psychotic states; 2. constitution of new neurophysiologic and statistical models of sleep perturbation in psychotic states and/or altered states of consciousness based on experimental data. 3. Introduction of new sleep marker as biological marker for distinction of sleep organization by different psychotic states. 4. Established new hypothesis and theories in functions of sleep and dreams."

http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/MJMS.1857-5773.2014.0352

The reason behind dreaming is still a mystery. Dreams are expressions of thoughts, feelings, and awareness that are represented through the creation of sensory environments in our minds. Dreaming helps our brains grow, by exciting our neurons. In addition dreaming plays a role in memory by strengthening connections between certain areas of our brains, and by allowing other connections (less useful) to be released and forgotten. Dreams introduce random variations into psychic life and internal narratives. They produce thought mutations. Our minds can then select among these mutations and variations to produce new kinds of thought, imagination, self-awareness, and other psychic functions.

Sigmund Freud categorizes aspects of the mind into three parts:

Id - centered around primal impulses, pleasures, desires, unchecked urges and wish fulfillment. 

Ego - concerned with the conscious, the rational, the moral and the self-aware aspect of the mind. 

Superego - the censor for the id, which is also responsible for enforcing the moral codes of the ego.

When you are awake,  the impulses and desires of the id are suppressed by the superego. Through dreams, you are able to get a glimpse into your unconscious or the id. Because your guards are down during the dream state, your unconscious has the opportunity to act out and express the hidden desires of the id. However, the desires of the id can, at times, be so disturbing and even psychologically harmful that a "censor" comes into play and translates the id's disturbing content into a more acceptable symbolic form. This helps to preserve sleep and prevent you from waking up shocked at the images. As a result, confusing and cryptic dream images occur.

According to Freud, the reason you struggle to remember your dreams, is because the superego is at work. It is doing its job by protecting the conscious mind from the disturbing images and desires conjured by the unconscious. 

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreaminformation/dreamtheory/freud.htm

Kamal - First step in a project starts with a little dream - we agree. Great.

But some people sleep during the project - that's a problem!

"La vida es un sueño."

Do dream scientists use their own experiences to develop ideas why people dream?

Do people exist that never had at least one dream in a lifetime?

Would scientist be able to study dreams if they would not dream themselves?

Why only ca. 10% of the dreamers have lucid experiences?

Dear all,

I have a dream. Please humans use your brain, soul and empathy!

I think that whatever the reason for dreaming is, every thing begins with a dream. Dreams do solve and resolve most issues either by erfuilling the dream or helping in forgetting the pain. 

Sundarapandian,

You quoted, "La vida es sueño." As a Hispanist by vocation, I feel it´s my duty to translate a famous passage from Calderón de la Barca´s famous play "Life Is a Dream," because these words afford knowledge not only about dreams, but also about life itself:

"I dream that I am here/ Burdened by prison chains,/ And I dreamed I found myself/ In another nobler state./ What is life? It is a frenzy./ What is life? A mere illusion./ And the greatest worldly good is small./ For all the world´s a dream,/ And dreams are also dreams."

The Baroque Age when these words were written felt disillusionment with worldly pursuits, and so metaphorically called life a dream, with the world beyond the grave deemed the true reality.  This meant that oneiric dreams were also dreams within the larger dream which is this life.  Hence it is frequent to realize during dreams that we are dreaming, so that the dreamer feels realer than the content of his dream vision (Wilhelm Dilthey).  Why dream?  Who can say, if all life is a dream? Dreams are a mystery within the greater mystery which is life.

Thanks dear Nelson.

Dreams are wishes for happiness in the closed secrecy of a heart. So we dream because we want to reach happiness.

We dream because we think, aspire, anticipate, encounter, imagine and engage in problem solving.  Dreams are subconsciously revisiting/addressing events or activities that occupy our mind  while we are awake or going to an ever thought place without a priori experience due to our brain's capacity of imagination. The complexity of a dream is usually a reflection of the complexity of what we either do, or anticipate, or plan to accomplish. But it is not only humans that dream, animals do dream as well. 

Dear Roland,

of course dreams are reality. May be that this reality contradicts your daily experience, but dreams are processes happening in your brain, a very realistic matter, by relaxing, opening neuron channels for new ways and combining a lot of impressions and data, you have collected all the time, conscious or not conscious.

Dreams are reality!

Dear @Sundar, some answers are given under this thread! Also, some related treads about dreaming and dreams bring good answers!

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_do_we_dream

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_dreaming_mean_your_mind_is_unrested

Some answers follow: Why do we dream? Many comments are given also!

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-we-dream/

http://cogentcrazy.blogspot.com/2013_03_01_archive.html

Yes indeed, there is no life  without dreams.

Your dreams will become reality when you put in the work and don’t give up!

http://behindthehustle.com/2012/03/dreams-dont-work-unless-you-do/

Dreams allow the repressed parts of the mind to be satisfied through fantasy while keeping the conscious mind from thoughts that would suddenly cause one to awaken from shock. Dreams may compensate for one-sided attitudes held in waking consciousness and may communicate something that is not being said outright. Dreams are like the cleaning-up operations of computers when they are off-line, removing parasitic nodes and other junk from the mind during sleep. Dreams create new ideas through the generation of random thought mutations. Some of these may be rejected by the mind as useless, while others may be seen as valuable and retained. Dreams regulate mood and may function like psychotherapy, by making connections in a safe place and allowing the dreamer to integrate thoughts that may be dissociated during waking life. More recent research by Griffin has led to the formulation of the 'expectation fulfillment theory of dreaming', which suggests that dreaming metaphorically completes patterns of emotional expectation and lowers stress levels.

For Freud was first an allucinatory accomplishment of a desire in order not to disturb the sleep ( 1900) Then a way of elaborate stressful events (1920). For the bionian vision of Ogden dreams are a way of rappresenting and elaborating our emotional life. I think that both visions are compatible with the modern vision of a reharsal in the mind of challenging situations.