The first thing I asked myself was, why do we dream? What are dreams? To some, the answer may seem easy and obvious. But there’s more to it than just images that float around in our head. The article Dreams: Why do we dream? written by Hannah Nichols and reviewed by multiple members of a medical team, gives us the overall basis of what dreams are. It is stated that dreams are a universal experience that can be described as a state of consciousness distinguished by sensory, cognitive, and emotional occurances during sleep (Nichols, 2017). Basically, us dreamers have reduced control over the visual images, content, and activation of the memory (Nichols, 2017). Some people remember their dreams fully and clearly but other times, the memory starts
