Have you ever had a random dream where you woke up from it and wondered what it meant? Many times I would have dreams that relate to events that are going on in my life, like completing school assignments or a variety of many other things. I was curious about how we dream so I decided to research it. According to Medical News Today, dreams can be caused by unconscious desires and wishes or how our brain gathers information during the day. When I think about it, the many dreams that I have vary based on what is going on in my life currently and that makes sense.
These types of dreams are referred to as dream lag, which are the images or experiences that appear in your dreams that we have experienced recently. About only 1 to 2 percent of the memories that we experience appear in these dreams. To me, this is interesting when the many dreams that I have include similar themes, especially when the percentage of a certain memory occurring in them is so low. On top of that, dreams have been linked to the suppression of unwanted thoughts and an increase in those thoughts in dreams occur. I find this to happen to me a lot when I am stressed with school and I have many dreams with that theme. There have been up to 55 different common themes that were studied. Of the most common ones, school was conveniently on the top of the list. It seems that many others have the same dreams as me as well. Maybe many of the dreams that we have are fueled by stress. So what was the weirdest dream experience that you have had?
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