Do we all dream and if so, why do we dream?

-- Alexandra Carey (alex.carey1@virgin.net), August 31, 2003

Answers

You might begin researching the answer by visiting the website for the Association for the Study of Dreams at http://www.asdreams.org/homepage.htm. They publish the journal Dreaming.

Other places to begin:

Carskadon, M. (Ed.). (1993). Encyclopedia of sleep and dreaming. New York: Macmillan.

Antrobus, J. S., & Bertini, M. (1992). The neuropsychology of sleep and dreaming. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Bentley, E. (2000). Awareness: Biorhythms, sleep, and dreaming. London: Routledge.

Cavallero, C., & Foulkes, D. (1993). Dreaming as cognition. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

Flanagan, O. J. (1999). Dreaming souls: Sleep, dreams and the evolution of consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hobson, J. A. (1988). The dreaming brain: How the brain creates both the sense and the nonsense of dreams. New York: Basic Books. QP 426 H684d 1988

Jouvet, M. (1999). The paradox of sleep, the story of dreaming. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Translation of Sommeil et le réve.]

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), September 01, 2003.

I think that when you dream it's probably from your inside emotions.How you feel deeply.Or it can be you're dreaming of what you want than rather what you have in front of you.

-- IdioticLoser (Loser22@rock.com), September 18, 2003.