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Hidden meanings The images that appear in dreams may be g g g symbolic of something else. If you were to dream of being on a desert island, it might be because you want to escape from your normal life. This idea was once an important part of a therapy called psychoanalysis, but there is no evidence that dreams really work like this.

Links with reality A dream often turns out to be your sleeping brain’s explanation of something that is really happening. If a cat is yowling outside your bedroom window, you might dream about someone singing really badly! In one test, sleepers sprayed lightly with cold water said they dreamed of bathing, floods, or rain.

Scrambled events Dreams usually link together a whole series of strange events. One minute you are riding through the house on a horse and the next minute you and the horse are having lunch. Your brain seems to have a large collection of images, which it uses to form a story. You realize how crazy the story is only when you wake up.

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