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Why We Dream Although Scientists have been studying dreams for years, we still don't know what the purpose of dreaming is. Many people and scientists alike have had theories on why we dream, but are any of those correct? Freud's Theory

Sigmund Freud was a German philosopher who came up with one of today's most common

dream theories. Freud believed that we need to dream to fulfill what we cannot do in real life.

Without doing impossible things in our dream, we would not be able to live in reality knowing

that there are limitations to what we can do. Basically, he believed that dreaming is a way to

experience what we have always wanted to do.

  media type="file" key="freud.wav" width="300" height="50"  Freud Says ; > I started my professional activity as a neurologist trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients. Under the influence of an older friend, and by my own efforts, I discovered some important new facts about the unconscious in psychic life, the role of the instinctual urges, and so on.

  Fritz Perls' Theory <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Frits Perls was also a philosopher but believed in a much different theory than Freud. Perls <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">thought that dreams are lots of symbolism and everything in your dream represents <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">something. These symbols in your dreams are supposedly part of you and your personality. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">So, according to Perls, we need to dream to see and understand parts of ourselves that are <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">usually overlooked and not apparent in our daily lives.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Jung's theory <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Carl jung disagreed with Freud's theory and came media type="youtube" key="lDEeQegYOz4" height="315" width="560" align="right" <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> up with his own. He thought that dreams are <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">messages that are meant to be noticed and <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">uncovered. According to Jung, these messages <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">are supposed to help solve problems and if we  <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> didn't dream, we would be plagued with <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">problems and fears.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Robert's Theory <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">One of many more supported theories was Robert's theory. He believed that we need dreams <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">to get rid of unfinished thoughts and ideas. When we dream, we sometimes dream of what <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">happened that day. So according to Robert, when we dream like this, it could be clearing our <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">minds of anything we thought about that day that we no longer need. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">All in all, there is no known purpose for why we dream and we may never know! <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Go to: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Home Page  <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">How Dreams Work  <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Kinds of Dreams  <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Dream Quiz  <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 29px;">Dreams Bibliography