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Talking about dreams

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  Talking about Dreaming   0.1: Facts about dream 1: Dream 2: Subjective experience and content 3: Neurophysiology 4: Generation 5: Theories on function 6: Religious and other cultural contexts 6.1: Hindu 6.2: Abrahamic 6.3: Buddhist 6.4: Other 7: Interpretation 8: Images and literature 9: Lucidity 10: Recollection 11: Miscellany 11.1: Illusion of reality 11.2: Absent minded transgression 11.3: Day Dreams 11.4 Halluncations 11.5 Nightmare 11.6 Night terror 11.7 Deja vu Then Lucid dreaming   Here are some facts about dreams We all dream every night Our brains are active throughout the entire night. But after we wake up, we often don't remember much about our dreams. We dream most vividly during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep Some of our sleep has vivid, structured thoughts - or dreams. These occur during a stage of sleep that is called REM sleep. REM sleep occurs in short episodes across each night each about 90 minutes apart. Our longer dreams are in the morning hours. We are spe