What makes people dream?

Question

I'm wondering what makes people dream.I have dreams every night and most of the time i remember what their about and their usually not good ones.They usually have no ending to them leaving things up in the air.Sometimes the same dream has continued the following night.Why don't i ever have good dreams like hitting the megabucks or something?

Answer 1

REM

Answer 2

People have up to 20 dreams a night, did you know that?

we all dream and dreams are often influenced by things that we have seen in the day, sometimes we don't even realise we have seen these things.. but they still influence our thoughts like subliminal messages.. I learnt a lot from watching one of Derren Brown shows when he influenced a guys sleep by showing him a clip show of things that were too fast for him to catch and remember and then predicting his dream exactly right.. even waking him from his dream and putting him into a room just like his dream so he thought he was still dreaming, It was truly amazing.

Answer 3

I'm not to sure, but I think it's when your thinking about something, you just start to dream.

In the words of Roseanne Barr, "When you dream, your brain is just sitting there telling stories" or something like that. =]

Answer 4

I believe our dreams are a reflection of what is going on in our lives at the time. I don't dream a lot ( at least I don't remember them) but when I do dream it's usually dreams about going to the beach. My dreams tell me what I need or want, if that makes sense.

Answer 5

Dreaming is your brain's way of interpretting the day's event's or something thats bothering you.  

So if you're having bad dreams you may be stressed or worried about something happening at the moment.