The Reasons Behind Your Dreams

Dreams are easily the third or fourth most interesting habit human beings possess. Science has unsuccessfully tried to uncover the reasons and meanings behind your dreams for the past 60, or maybe even 70 years. The sad truth of the matter is that dreams are wholly unexplainable. However, there is an explanation for dreams, and I am here to truthfully present the facts, in chronological order, to you.

Dreams come from the activity of the brain. This is simple to understand if you can believe in this very basic fact: your body might sleep, but your brain is an insomniac. You might be permanently staining your overpaid Tempurpedic-type pillow with drool, but for the eight hours a night you do that, your brain is drinking a French Vanilla Mochacuppachinalatte with three extra packets of sugar while reading Go Ask Alice to better understand why you (the body) suddenly don't feel like playing basketball anymore.

During your brains everlasting activity, you tend to think of different things. It's difficult for one person to break down what everything your brain comes up with means, so instead I, and I alone, will take care of explaining each unique characteristic.
Everyone's familiar with the falling down dream: where you suddenly receive the sensation that you're falling to your untimely death, only to awake with not a second more to spare. This dream is usually the result of the natural human desire to be a bird, a cloud, or an airplane. Everyone has an insatiable desire for flight; more specifically, humans want wings, and they would do anything to have them if given the chance. You fall down in your dreams because you want to fall down in reality, without the harm of actually landing somewhere. Too bad.

Several kids suffer from night terrors. The vivid, visual reality where a child is surrounded by increasingly large and imposing objects such as adults or furniture. This symptom dates back to the ancient philosophy that each individual human being is only a small particle in the great area that is the universe. It gives the victim a constant, shrinking feeling that is only dealt with through horrible, shrieking screams by the child. Although this "particle of the universe" myth was debunked most likely hundreds of years ago, the night terrors still terrorize tots during the twilight.

There is a street slang term that has been passed around from gang to gang, a term called "wet dreams." Although I am unfamiliar with the specific nature behind the meaning of the phrase, one can only assume that there is at least one sleeping person involved, and that person's dreams probably take place on a beach, or maybe on a fishing boat. The person might be afraid of drowning, but that is highly unlikely, considering a fear of drowning is wholly irrational.

There are several other types of dreams, but my fingers are beginning to cramp. Thanks for reading; now I'm off to a deep, vacant sleep.