“D-R-E-A-M”. As soon as you utter the word, your mind gets a kind of mysterious sensation that ripples down all over your body. Sometimes you love it so much that hardly you want to come into reality. Sometimes you even loathe it as it brings some mostly unpleasant incidents in your mind. But you can’t deny it. All of your love, hatred, desire, frustration  find their place to screen themselves like the kaleidoscopic slide shows that come one after another in your mind.          

This common and distinctive phenomenon of sleep, has since the dawn of human history given rise to myriad beliefs, fears, and conjectures, both imaginative and experimental, regarding its mysterious nature.

But here is the basic question that still searching its answer.......

Why do we dream?

Different people probably give different answers about  what dreams are made of. That's because scientists are still unraveling this mystery. One possibility: Dreaming exercises brain by stimulating the trafficking of synapses between brain cells. Another theory is that people dream about tasks and emotions that they didn't take care of during the day, and that the process can help solidify thoughts and memories. In general, scientists agree that dreaming happens during your deepest sleep, called Rapid Eye Movement (REM).

  “Theme of my dream”:

Content-analysis studies scientists have identified recurring themes in dreams. Common reported themes have been shown to be: themes relating to school, being chased, sexual experiences, falling, arriving too late, a person now alive being dead, flying, and failing an examination.

12% of people dream only in black and white .

The dilemma called ‘Dream’:

A mong the Eskimo of Hudson Bay and the Patani Malay people, it is believed that during sleep one's “soul” leaves the body to live in a special dreamworld.

Believers often consider it dangerous to wake someone lest his “soul” be lost. On these grounds the Tajal people of Luzon , for example, severely punish for awakening a sleeping person.

There is a tradition in Borneo that if a man dreams that his wife is an adulteress, her father must take her back.

 A Zulu man is said to have broken off a friendship after dreaming that the friend meant him harm.

  A Paraguayan Indian , reportedly having dreamed that a missionary shot at him, attempted to kill the missionary.

Among Iroquois  Indians it was obligatory to carry out dreams as soon as possible.

After dreaming of something valuable, Kurdish  people were traditionally expected to take it, by force if necessary.

Among some natives of Kamchatka   a man need only dream of a girl's favour for her to owe him her sexual favours.

Famous Dreams & Dreamers:

***     "I Have a Dream"—Martin  Luther King, Jr.

   ( delivered 28 August 1963 , at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. )

Excerpts:

“I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

***     President Abraham Lincoln had narrated the  dream of being killed shortly before he was assassinated.

***     The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge  reported that he had written “Kubla Khan” as the result of creative thinking in a dream.

***     Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson  said that much of his writing was developed by “little people” in his dreams, and specifically cited the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in this context.

***     The German chemist F.A Kekule` von Stradonitz attributed his interpretation of the ring structure of the benzene molecule to his dream of a snake with its tail in its mouth.

***     Otto Loewi , the German physiologist, attributed to a dream inspiration for an experiment with a frog's nerve that helped him win the Nobel Prize.

Any dream will do:

So it is sometime unique, sometime very painful. Somebody has a dream to cherish. Later he can be able to make it real. While someone’s dream turns futile. But we need a dream.....any dream. For dreams keep rolling the wheel. And who knows what your dream holds for us? So keep dreaming.