What truly goes on when you sleep? It is fascinating to read about the body's activities during sleep mode. As the physical body is resting, the vital organs revitalize and influence the entire body in a long-run.
The heart rate, blood pressure, cells, brain and all go through the process of recovery and repair.
Now it is intriguing to know that aside our organs or systems going through repair and maintenance mode, our subconsciousness also has the ability to create thoughts, images and sensations in our minds whiles we sleep. That is called dream.
As to how it happens exactly that is a beautiful mystery. You will go to bed, drift into sleep then you find yourself witnessing series of events being played out in your mind. It seems like watching yourself in a live action movie where you are the main character but, the scenes being played certainly won't be scripted, it takes on a life of its own. Dreams could be exciting, beautiful, scary, adventurous, bone-chilling, dark, and even extra ordinary.
What really causes dream?
From a biblical stance, dreams are used as a medium through which God passes on divine revelation to his people. It tells what was, what is and what is to come. The story of Joseph, son of Jacob, depicts how God revealed Joseph's future to him, of the greatness that would become of him.
His brothers out of jealousy sold him into slavery but again, God used the means of dream interpretation to safe him from prison and also to help him gain favor in the eyes of the then Pharoah. By this, what was to come was revealed and measures were taking to meet the unpreventable future.
When we steer away from religious meaning, dreams are borne from sensory, emotions and experiences playing out from brainwaves while we sleep, according to science.
There's been a lot of theories which further explains dream could even be infused by the food we eat, our activities during the time we are awake and even based on imaginations.
What I think of dream
I do dream, having dreams is part of life and it happens to everyone I think. I do believe God uses dreams to reveal what is hidden to us. On a different note, some dreams are borne from thoughts and imaginations. I have had instances where I ended up dreaming about the things I was thinking of or imagining before sleeping.
Either way, I do not take dreams lightly. Dreams are dreams, although I do believe our imaginations could also create dreams, I still believe dreams are powerful and they have spiritual meanings.
With every dream I have, whether I overfed myself and dreamt about something silly or otherwise, I do pray about them.
Dreams are fascinating, it could play out in a way that would make you a star in your own movie (dream) and also be the audience to watch your life play-out in a full HD movie whiles sleeping.
What could get more interesting than this?