Every night when you fell asleep, you enter a strange world, somewhere where anything is possible - animals talk and people can fly. It's the world of dreams.
Everybody dreams every night, but we don't dream for all of the night. In a normal night we have four or five periods of dreaming. They last about one or two hours altogether. Sometimes when we wake up, we remember nothing about our dreams. We usually only remember them if we wake up while we're actually dreaming. And we forget dreams very quickly.
Why do we dream? The short answer is: nobody knows. Most scientists believe that you dream because your brain is sorting out information. A lot of things happen in a normal day. While you're asleep, your brain looks at everything. It then puts some things away. But some people believe that dreams can predict the future.
One night Sarah Jones, 26, had a terrible dream. She dreamt that her baby son, Robert, was dead. She got out of bed and went to see the little boy, but he was all right. A month later, however, Sarah was watching television when she remembered her dream. She went to Robert's bedroom. The little boy's face was blue and he wasn't breathing. Sarah slapped his back three times and Robert started to cry. Sarah believes that her dream saved Robert's life.
Andrew Drake, a writer, had a very different dream. He dreamt about a horse race and he saw the winner. It was number 11. The next day he looked in the newspaper and found that number 11 was a horse called Star Boy. He put some money on it and the horse won. 'Unfortunately, I've never had another dream like it,' says Andrew.
So can we really see the future in our dreams? Sleep expert, Dr Alison Stewart, thinks that it's just coincidence. 'Sarah and Andrew both dreamt about things, and those things happened. But how often have they dreamt about something and then it didn't happen? It's strange when a dream comes true, so we remember it. We don't remember all the times when dreams don't come true. I had a dream last night that a shark was chasing me down the street, but I don't think it's going to happen. I'll be very suprised if it does!'
Post je objavljen 25.05.2006. u 09:41 sati.