Take a minute to read through our articles on this fascinating and important subject for mental health…
Joe Griffin explains why dreaming and forgetting our dreams, fulfils a vital human need.
You probably don't remember because, for a very good reason, we evolved not to. However all normal humans dream every night and most mammals show evidence of this brain pattern too.
We all take sleep for granted until we have problems with it and then we quickly remember how desirable a good night's sleep is.
Ezra Hewing looks into trauma and suggests that dissociation, as activated in REM sleep, may explain both the treatments that work best and why trauma can result in shutdown.
The expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming put forward by Joe Griffin is, to date, the best explanation for why we dream and why we forget our dreams. According to the review carried out by leading dream researcher Professor G William Domhoff of the University of California at Santa Cruz, earlier theories do not adequately explain all the known facets of dreaming.
Scientific findings confirm the connection between the dream state and schizophrenia.
