Why Do We Dream? In the third millennium BCE, Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on wax tablets. A thousand years later, Ancient Egyptians wrote a dream book listing over a 100 common dreams and their meanings. Why We Dream? And in the years since, we haven't paused in our quest to understand why we dream. So, after a great deal of scientific research, technological advancement, and persistence, we still don't have any definite answers, but we have some interesting theories. We Dream to Fulfill Our Wishes. In the early 1900s, Freud proposed that while all of our dreams, including our nightmares, are a gaggle of images from our daily conscious lives, they even have symbolic meanings, which relate to the fulfillment of our subconscious wishes. Freud theorized that everything we remember once we awaken from a dream may be a symbolic representation of our unconscious primitive thoughts, urges, and desires. Freud believed that by analyzing those ...
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