In this article, I hope to open a window into the vast and mysterious world of dreams. For most people, information about dreams is not common knowledge. While researching this topic, I discovered that everyone has and reacts to dreams, which are essential to mental health. You will also discover how you can influence your dreams and how they affect you. All over the world, different people, scientists, and civilizations have different theories of dreams. For example, the Senoi tribe in Malaysia has a fascinating tradition of dream telling. Every morning, the members of the tribe begin their day by discussing and interpreting their dreams among themselves. Children, as they grow, learn to control their dreams by simply changing bad dreams into positive ones. It is observed that by paying tribute to their dreams, the inhabitants of the Senoi tribe learn to have confidence in themselves. Additionally, they have very few, if any, mental problems. Could “working constructively with dreams be part of the answer” to mental problems? (Peirce) Along with tradition, there are also many theories about dreams. Sigmund Freud, the first psychologist to study dreams in depth, theorized that dreams were just subconscious thoughts. He believed that dreams show desires and thoughts in symbolic form that are not acceptable at the conscious level. He used the term manifest content to describe the content of dreams, and the term latent content as the hidden meanings behind symbolic dreams. Freud's theory, however, is only one among many, like that of Francis Crick. He believed that dreams were a way of mentally “cleaning” or getting rid of unnecessary memories. He found them useful because you don't need to remember every little detail of your life....... middle of paper ...... results. An interesting thing found is that although dreams happen in the blink of an eye, they actually happen in a realistic time frame (General Information). Another reason is that dreams usually take place in familiar contexts and are random thoughts from the day before. What's interesting though is that in studies in which participants were woken regularly, scientists found that dreams recalled the next morning were "more coherent, sexier, and generally more interesting" than dream descriptions collected in the research data. . Most participants remembered very little of their dreams and only the last fifteen minutes of dreaming before waking up. In conclusion, I hope you learned something about dreams that you didn't learn before and now realize that it's not "just a dream »..”