Dreams

Watching House reminded me of Inception. It showed me how Descartes is everywhere. In Inception we learn how in a dream we do not remember how we got to a place. In House, we watched as House kept walking up and down the staircase. When I first watched this episode years ago, I had thought he was just trying out his leg, happy that he could walk. But I learned later that it was his way of figuring out what was a hallucination. I never understood it before until I watched Inception, and Descartes has also helped me understand dreams more and how our sense, perception, and judgment are impaired, and how they can not be fully trusted.

Dreams

In class someone mentioned the senses they experience in dreams. How they can feel the hurt of a pinch, or the emotion in their dream. The more we were being introduced into philosophy, the more I found myself taking on the questioning activity of philosophy. I started thinking, why is it dreams are so real to us? How do dreams seem to come true for others? Are dreams just a look at the past mixed with the present? Though Sigmund Freud claimed he had answers for us you are still prone to wonder. The movie Inception explored another side of dreams. For me, after the movie I thought "Can I really control my dreams?" I experimented with trying to tell myself what I wanted to dream about before I fell asleep, or tried to pick up where I left off in another dream. To say the lease I have not found an answer. I am enjoying the philosophy of dreams and exploring it.

Dreams

We were told to answer a question: What is philosophy? We discussed how philosophy can be something that is perplexing and sometimes bothersome. There is one question that I think about sometimes and it perplexes me. What are dreams? I just recently watched a movie called "Inception" which was basically about a group of people creating different levels of dreams, going into each other's dreams, and eventually trying to plant an idea into a man's mind through his own dream. Dreams have always made me curious and I have never really understood dreams or the significance of dreams. So many questions always seem to spark up in my mind when I think about the reason dreams even occur. I rarely ever have dreams when I sleep; at most I probably have about 10-15 dreams a year, but probably less. However, it has been said by researchers that humans have dreams basically every night, and usually even multiple dreams. So, do I dream every night and simply forget these dreams? Or do I simply never dream at all? Does this only happen to me or do other people deal with this same situation?

Whenever I do dream, I try my best to remember what happened. Sometimes I feel like it might be important remember a dream since I seem to never have them. Lots of people like to say that whenever we dream, it’s our subconscious trying to tell us something. I often wonder if that is true. Some people have really bizarre dreams that seem to hold no significant message at all, while other times people have dreams that can cause them to realize something so important. Why do some dreams seem so real to us, and then other times people can actually realize they are dreaming? Can we wake ourselves up from dreams or do we have to wait for our bodies to be ready? Why aren’t all dreams good and why do we have nightmares? How can we interpret our dreams and do they always mean something? Do color dreams mean something different than black and white dreams? I have so many questions about dreams and it seems to be such a hard topic for researchers to study. I just hope that future scientists will be able to gain a better understanding of dreams and further their research so that I can also learn more about dreams.

I found a nice video that explained some things about dreams. It was actually pretty interesting so I posted the link at the end of my post. The doctor talked about REM sleep, different facts about dreams, and even talked a little about dream interpretation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OikoLaREvck