An Introduction to Dreams

The dream world. This amazing, yet complex world is experienced by most everyone that considers themselves human. Like metaphysics and knowledge, dreams have been an object of interpretation and investigation throughout human civilization. Hell, maybe even the uncivilized hominids had dreams, maybe they were less complex, but if I can watch my roommate’s dog drift through the dream world, I’m sure our early unevolved “selves” could do it as well.

Are dreams important, and if so, why? I find myself with the belief that dreams are important. Maybe they are important in a spiritual sense, maybe they are a link to a whole new dimension of reality. Usually maybes don’t work in facilitating fact in today’s world, but these maybes do tell us something; they tell us that we are working towards theories of the unknown, a very special unknown called dreaming (lucid dreaming, etc.).

What makes this unknown so special? Well, there are many answers to this question. From amazing journeys of flight, visitations from deceased loved ones, or sex with a total stranger, dreams are certainly special by definition. But what about other ways of interpreting dreams? It is said that Albert Einstein attributed his theory of relativity with a dream. The bible is filled with these interpretations of dreams. Even today dreams are useful scientific tools. For example, the scientist responsible for creating the self sustaining lunar base, the base that is being built right now for NASA, gives all the credit for his idea to a dream he had. Therefore, I conclude along with many others, that we have so much to learn from this “unknown” virtual reality we call dreaming.

This post is just an introduction to the phenomenon of dreams, but I assure you, there will be more to come.