A small notion On DREAMS

Within our awake time, many feelings transiently form within ourselves, many reactions we take due to certain stimuli, and maybe even some slight compunctions we might experience, and all these for sure have a powerful effect in our brains. Those who promote the immense power of the subconscious say that 90percent of thoughts and feelings are generated by our subconscious, a supposition I find so grandiose without powerful scientific evidence, which some may consider mere pop psychology.

At the meantime, I subscribe to the notion that our brains are made of billions of neural connections and every emotion and state is due to interactions that happen within the synapse, the area between two neurons. Sometimes many firings might accumulate willing to get fired, but due to many constraints we might unconsciously activate the part of the brain that works to inhibit certain stimuli. Some propositions suggest that when we are asleep, the part of the brain responsible for this inhibitory mechanism is not working and this allows the accumulated activation that we had in the day to start firing, and as we are sleeping, there is the part of the brain that stops our motor neurons to make our muscles function to our thoughts, yet people who have problems on this part may react to those firings.

The point I am trying to make is that what we have gone through within the day dictates our dreams to a very high extent, and sometimes when these firings happen, the notions in our brains interact with it accordingly, and with this I think that dreams tell us a lot about our subconscious state. Keeping in mind that my understanding of the subconscious is our deep internal schema in which we form not so deliberately, yet the path that we seek in growth is by our choice. Since we choose our paths of growth then we indirectly choose the internal schema we want to be formed. They say “you can change your mind in seconds, and your brain in weeks”, and this shows me well that if I change my mind today upon a certain notion, I will need a certain level of perseverance to make it fixed within my brain and in that night, I might have a dream that entertains this change and my brain at that night will react based on the tools it has at the moment.