How Dreams Affect Our Personalities - 1465 Words

How dreams affect our personalities Introduction to Psychology By: Spencer Young Abstract What happens at night when we enter what is called rapid eye movement or rem is called dreaming. What happens when we dream our brain tries to deal with what we’ve done throughout the day. It does this in the form of a dream. What happens when we wake up out of the dream? Does it affect us during the day? Dreams have been found to shape us in ways that is almost unnoticeable to us. How dreams may affect our personalities, and our social life. There are many different types of dreams that people can have during the night. â€Å"A lot of people don’t pay attention to their dreams and are unaware of the impact they have on their state of†¦show more content†¦Some of the different interpretations of dreams include the following but are not limited to. Dreaming about spiders is a often call sign that your brain thinks that you’re being manipulated or are manipulating others around you. A dream about being chased normally means that you’re running form either a person or an idea. A dream about being lost can denote that you have anxiety. According to dream psychologist Ian Wallace dreams are what our brain interprets from our unconscious experiences throughout the day and tries to sort through them. Dreams are often the most authentic expression of the metaphors and symbols that we create to help make sense of our lives (Williams). According Ian Wallace a dream psychologist the reason why we dream is to keep in touch with what we want to do with our lives. Wallace says that when we dream it is our mind trying to collect and connect who we are subconsciously and bring that to our consciousness. Often when people dream they dismiss it as just something useless that happens every night but psychologist Ian Wallace says that they have been the inspiration for some of our most significant technological and cultural advances. The Theory of Relativity originated from a dream that Albert Einstein experienced where he dreamt that he was sledging down a snow covered hillside on a beam of starlight (Wallace). Dreaming is an important part of everyone s emotional well being. When we create the dream imagery in our head we