What are dreams and why do we have them? That is a question a majority of people have thought about, however it may not have been answered. Dreams are stories and images that our mind creates while we sleep. They can make the person in the ‘dream state’ feel multiple emotions. Feeling happy, sad or scared are common as well as feeling confused. All dreams occur while a person is asleep. The most vivid dreams take place during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep or in the state of a deep sleep. At this time, the brain is the most active. To the right, the two images show the brain during a ‘normal sleep’ (the first picture) and the brain during REM ‘sleep state’ (the second picture). According to most experts, people have four to six
