“[Dreams are] the royal road to the unconscious.” Freud is stating, in other words, that dreams bring us down to the deep level of our unconscious mind and lets us know what is going on in there. Many people trust this statement about dreams, while others believe different theories. Sleep, the pathway to dreams, also has its mysteries. The world of sleep and dreams is a fairly uncharted area that we continue to seek further …showed first 75 words of 1039 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1039 total…recall is much more prevalent in non-western societies where dreams taken seriously, whereas in Western societies there is less recall. Dreams and sleep can tell us a lot about ourselves. Depending on what theory you believe, dreams can tell us something we are wishing for, a problem we’re trying to figure out, or simply what is on our mind. Sleep is a journey into our unconscious mind, and dreams are the window into it.