For ages people have thought of dreams as curses or blessings that we could not This place called our dreams has constantly puzzled us, becauseit is here where all things are possible and seem to occur. In our dreams we performsuperhuman and wonderful feats that would normally be impossible in the awake world.We find the men or women of our dreams, depending on our sexual orientation. While wedream, these wonderful things become our temporary reality. Yet sometimes whiledreaming we may experience the most horrifying events imaginable, called nightmares.Everyone has their own version of horror, my most terrifying nightmare has been wheremy family and friends have been taken control of by evil monsters that cannot be stopped.Rather than kill me they make me watch old 1970s television shows over and over. Foryears, men have thought that there should be a way of preventing or controlling thesenightly events. Humans must, like any animal, sleep. We do not fully understand why we mustsleep. We only know that if we are deprived of sleep long enough that we will mostcertainly die. The same is true for dreams and dreaming(1). If we sleep long enough wewill reach an advanced stage of sleep where our body begins to experience rapid eyemovement (REM). It is during this REM period that we experience most of our dreams.Many scientists try to speculate the reasons for dreaming through biological ourpsychological means. This proves to be very frustrating for someone trying to findempirical meaning and truth about his or her dreams. There are countless books written about dreams with just as many differentinterpretations and meanings for specific dream references. For psychics, astrologists, orpsychologists who attempt to interpret dreams, there are numerous factors that must beconsidered when endeavoring to find meaning in a dream. Because of these numerousfactors that contribute to the condition of dreaming, m...
