WHY DO WE DREAM?
Why do we Dream? What is the significance of it? This very question has kept us fascinated since the birth of humanity. The Mesopotamian viewed dreams as the message from God, which were then translated by a dream priest . The Egyptians also had similar views and thought dreams could be used to predict the future. The realization that dreams may originate from human thoughts and emotion arguably first occurred in Ancient Greece ; Hippocrates suggested that dreams might be related to mental and physical health. Dreams have also led to many Scientific discoveries. Dmitri Mendeleev found a logical arrangement of the elements in the Periodic table in his dreams. The structure of benzene ring was found out by August Kekule also in a bizarre dream of a snake made of atoms biting its own tail. Although the actual function of Dream is yet to be answered, there are many hypotheses speculated by different scientists. One theory suggests that dr...
