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* Arlene * helps shelters for abused women and children.

Earlier this week, Scientific American, published a piece about the science of dreaming in its weekly Mind Matters column. In the article, researcher Sander Van Linden writes about the way our minds remember dreams. He points to a recent study that found that those who remember their dreams tend to also remember other "autobiographical memories" well.

Last night I had a very vivid dream that left me weeping and shaken the minute I woke up.

We sleep to revive our bodies and minds. It is through this process that we are able to prepare ourselves for the stresses and strains that await us in everyday life, as well as the physical challenges we put our bodies through each day.

The world of dreams is a mysterious and fascinating place where the rules of reality do not apply. In dreams, we release our sub-conscious hopes and fears, our innermost desires and ambitions, in a cascade of images, sounds, ideas, and emotions which can manifest themselves in any number of ways.
 
A few weeks ago, my girlfriend confided into me that she had had a weird dream the nanight before. She said it was so vivid that when she woke up, she actually remembered the whole dream. Did you know we have hundreds of dreams a night, yet we normally don’t remember any of them once we wake up? Yet the dreams I do happen to remember, I try my best to interpret the meaning of those dreams.