Lifestyle Desk: People have been curious about dreams for a long time. Dreams make people laugh and cry as well as romantic and sad. Many myths have been created in human society over the ages about dreams. With these myths, reality and science are far apart.

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Yet people in this 21st century suffer from an equal romanticism about dreams. Believing that dreams hold the key to determining a person's destiny, it is possible to predict the future by finding the interpretation of dreams. Let's find out what science says about this.
According to scientists, dreams are a special process of the brain.

This process involves the reconstruction of memories, the reflection of emotions and mental states. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud did extensive research on the brain, sleep and dreams. In his famous book 'Interpretation of Dreams', he said that dreams are the reflection of our subconscious mind. According to Freud, dreams reveal our repressed emotions, desires and fears.
He was against the theory that dreams predict future life. But he also believed that dreams give us a glimpse of our mental state. That opinion may affect future operations.
Freud's disciple, the Swiss scientist Carl Jung, had a slightly different view of dreams. He believed that dreams are a reflection of individual experience and the collective unconscious mind.

Dreams reveal old memories stored deep in our human mind. That is, according to Jung, dreams indicate personal attitudes and mental states. Like Guru Freud, he believed that dreams do not directly predict the future.
Robert Stickgold, a researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard University in the United States. He is currently doing cutting-edge research on dreams. According to him, dreams are a way for people to process information in their daily life. The brain reconstructs previous experiences through dreams and tries to learn from them. In this process the brain prepares for what may happen in the future. But dreams never accurately predict the future—says Stickgold.

J. Alan Hobson, a researcher at the University of California, USA, is a dream researcher. He believes that dreams are a kind of 'activation synthesis' process of the brain. In this process, dreams are created as a result of various activities of brain neurons. He also thinks that it is not possible to accurately predict future events through dreams. However, dreams are one of the means of mental and physical preparation.

Mark Blagrove, professor of psychology at the University of Birmingham in the UK, has researched the social and psychological effects of dreams. According to him, dreams can sometimes be a reflection of our emotions, social problems or worries. Dreams keep our brain active during sleep and process various thoughts, emotional states and experiences.

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Researchers believe that one of the main functions of our brain is to store and process memories. Through dreams, the brain reorganizes our daily experiences and sometimes they begin to run in disorganized or disjointed form. In many cases, people find similarities between dreams and reality. As a result, the tendency to think of dreams as predictions of the future is strengthened. However, no research to date has proven that dreams can predict the future.

Source: Scientific American Mind