Why Do We Dream?

Dreams have fascinated philosopher for a long time. They are an involuntary series of visual or auditory imagery that occur during Repaid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. Dreaming occurs some five or six times at night among adults. They are in response to the activities that we unconsciously wish to do during our waking hours and according to Sigmund Freud is the gratification of some drive or desire for the fulfillment of a subconscious wish. Many people remember what they dream about and quite a lot forget what they dreamed about. The people that appear in a dream are almost always some one that the dreamer has known in real life.