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Dreams are novel but realistic simulations of waking social life. [1] One of the primary purposes of sharing dreams is entertainment. [2] Dream sharing is a strategy that tests and strengthens the bond between people. A dream can be described as a calculated social interaction and a way to bring individuals closer together.
Dream telepathy is the purported ability to communicate telepathically with another person while one is dreaming. [1] Mainstream scientific consensus rejects dream telepathy as a real phenomenon. Parapsychological experiments into dream telepathy have not produced replicable results.
Christians mostly shared the beliefs of the Hebrews and thought that dreams were of a supernatural character because the Old Testament includes frequent stories of dreams with divine inspiration. The most famous of these dream stories was Jacob's dream of a ladder that stretches from Earth to Heaven .
The term lucid dream was coined by Dutch author and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden in his 1913 article A Study of Dreams, [5] though descriptions of dreamers being aware that they are dreaming predate the article. [5] Psychologist Stephen LaBerge is widely considered the progenitor and leading pioneer of modern lucid dreaming research. [9]
One potential reason is the payoff of daydreaming is usually private and hidden compared to the measurable cost from external goal-directed tasks. It is hard to know and record people's private thoughts such as personal goals and dreams, so whether daydreaming supports these thoughts is difficult to discuss. [1]
“Dreams can represent, literally or via abstraction, different themes that are important to us in waking life, and can become a source of information, as our dreams are often thought of as an ...
1. The Dream: Random Sex with a Stranger. So your promiscuous side came out to play with a total stranger while you were sound asleep and you’re wondering what this risky business was all about.
A false awakening may occur following a dream or following a lucid dream (one in which the dreamer has been aware of dreaming). Particularly, if the false awakening follows a lucid dream, the false awakening may turn into a "pre-lucid dream", [2] that is, one in which the dreamer may start to wonder if they are really awake and may or may not come to the correct conclusion.