Some dreams stay dreams, Some dreams come true!

Thanks to NaS and Kanye West for that title.

A few weeks ago I was thinking about why sleep is so important and why R.E.M. (rapid eye movement) sleep is so crucial to us being able to reset our minds (not brains). For those who don't know, R.E.M. sleep is the time that we dream (and sometimes remember the events taking place). I was prompted by some discussion in an infomercial of all places! But the underlying question was: why is sleep so important?

Here is my theory:

As I have mentioned before, people who follow the Buddhist religion believe that there is just one consciousness. This is God. Brahman is the term they use. It means one, or oneness. They suggest meditation to connect or plug into this consciousness. And they claim that the better you become at accessing Brahman, the more you become a part of the world and lose your individual hang ups, related to socialized culture. The further claim is that this is the only true consciousness, and the only reason we aren't always connected is that our physical bodies and brains are too busy with other stimuli to notice the power and energy flow that they create and are ultimately a part of.

So, I believe that dreams are our minds accessing this ultimate consciousness. This is why we may have friends, family etc in dreams. They have been thinking about us at the same time we were thinking about them and, if we link in at the same times, are likely to find each other on this "higher" (other) plane. I mean, how many times have you had a dream and some time later the EXACT SAME scenario plays out in real life? If you think it, it will come. Ok, that's an oversimplification, but we DO attract the things we think about. So if you have a boss who annoys the shit out of you, and you constantly keep them in your thoughts - they will continue to do so. If you keep thoughts of achieving goals and helping people in your head - eventually you will come to do those things as well.

Basically, when you dream, it is your body's natural way of finding that other plane to make sense of all the other stimuli observed that day and prior to sleep. This is why things from your normal day leak into the part of the brain responsible for dreams. All the neuronal cells network, so sometimes the ones responsible for memory flash and mix with other signals that are more important to your mental recovery from all the outside stimuli.

What do you think?