What would happen if you didn't dream? Your conscious and subconscious mind works together as a team, much like the different phases of the Earth's cycle. Your conscious mind focuses on the most pressing details of your daily life - the ringing of the phone, the baby's cry, the sound of the doorbell. Your conscious mind guides you through the most critical tasks.

You unconscious mind stores away the excess stimuli that your brain receives while you are concentrating on the most pressing matters. Your brain takes in considerably more stimuli each day than you can deal with on a conscious level. Dreams are the mind's way of processing this extra stimuli - the dog barking, the bird chirping, the sneer on your teenager's face as he walks out of the room - all of the noises and emotions that are not center-stage.

While you sleep, your conscious mind recuperates while the stimuli stored in your subconscious can rise to the top for analysis - the process your brain uses to sort and deal with all of the stimuli and emotions encountered each day. Often, your subconscious also contains emotions that you have not been able to deal with. For instance, when a traumatic event occurs, you may bury these events deep within their subconscious minds to avoid dealing with something fearful or upsetting.

So, why do people dream? Your body works like a machine - each part performs a certain task. It is your brain's job to sort and analyze all data that you encounter. As you sleep, your mind continues to send signals that you are not consciously aware of. This is why we dream.

The interpretation and analysis of dreams is how we can begin to deal with emotions and stimuli that we have not yet processed on a conscious level. It is possible to use our dreams as a means to improve our lives by using the information that we discover in our dreams to alter things that we may wish to improve about ourselves, facing things that we have been afraid of facing and bringing about closure, and gives us a deeper look inside ourselves.

Learning to interpret and analyze our dreams allows us to develop a unity between mind, body, and spirit. We can find the answers to spiritual questions and can even be warned of pending health problems. Since the body works much like a machine, your body sends signals to your mind that could help you delay or avoid health problems that might arise in the future warning us of actions we are taking that can lead to the health problems.

Your body works - just the way it was meant to - but you have to listen with your body. And, this means using all available resources. We have answered the question "Why do people dream?" - now, the question is "What will you do with it?"

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Jim Eastman writes on a wide variety of topics. If you're interested in the meaning of dreams visit http://www.meaningbehinddreams.com/why-people-dream.html and sign up for the free course by email.