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Mental housekeeping Most scientists now agree that dreams are part of the brain’s housekeeping activities. As you sleep, your brain sorts out the events that have happened during the day and commits many of them to long-term memory. In the process, it triggers other memories, and these get knitted together into dreams. Sigmund Freud Famous psychologist Sigmund Freud believed that dreams express unconscious conflicts and desires in symbolic for

Sleepwalking Some people suffer from a sleep disorder where they get up and do things such as dressing, bathing, or even using the vacuum cleaner— but without waking up. Afterward, they cannot remember what they have done. Sleepwalking is not a form of dreaming, because it occurs during a different phase of sleep. Some of our strangest experiences happen in our dreams. We all have dreams—even if we don’t remember them very well—so we know how illo

Prophetic dreams Some people believe that dreams predict the future. In fact, most dreams simply reflect our concerns, and sometimes these coincide with real events. If you are worried about being told off by your teacher, you are likely to dream about it. So if your teacher does tell you off the next day, your dream has come true!

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