Dreams

The night was cold- freezing even and I was hanging on for dear life. The fingers wrapped tightly around the barrier dangling of the ship. I could hear the slow click of heels walking towards me. "Help," I yelled towards the approaching figure. She stood in a white elegant dress, long blond hair flowing behind her. Bright red nails tapped the barrier indecisively while I begged for help as I started to lose my grip. A wicked smile spread across her face as I lost my grip and plummeted towards the freezing cold ocean.

I woke up and looked at the time 2.20- it was the 15th of April 2012- a hundred years since the titanic sunk and I had had a dream of me hanging of the side of it with a scary woman deciding my fate. It was the most vivid dream I have had to date and still remember it clearly. I remember what she looked like, the shape of the ship, the time I woke up and the date.

I think dreams are the strangest thing that happen to any living thing and the fact that you can find out what they mean from a dream dictionary. Sometimes I get similar dreams so I do look up what they could mean. One common one for me is being pregnant which is all about the creation and development of life, so dreaming of being pregnant may be a metaphor for the birth of something in your life, such as a new idea, project or goal. It may also symbolize an aspect of yourself that is developing or growing. I have realised that I get these dreams when I've come up with a new writing idea.

One question I always wonder is why do we forget dreams? Well I did some research and found out why...
There are many reasons why we forget many of our dreams and one link summed up all the reasons- Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-memories-of-vivid-dreams/ - states that we forget dreams because there is an absence of the hormone norepinephrine in the cerebral cortex, a brain region that plays a key role in memory, thought, language and consciousness. (Norepinephrine definition underlies the fight-or-flight response, along with epinephrine, directly increasing heart rate, triggering the release of glucose from energy stores, and increasing blood flow to skeletal muscle.) Due to this we forget the dreams we have if they did not capture our attention. There are many for reasons which is explained in Scientific American which you can see in the link above.

Even though I think dreams are bizarre I also think if you have a dream the day starts off better. What is your most vivid dream? Comment below