Dreams are Epic

While researching a topic to discuss for today's blog post, I stumbled upon an interesting article about dreams entitled 15 Interesting Facts About Dreams. After reading it, I decided that this would be an interesting topic to discuss. 

There was a collage of information such as not everybody dreams in colour or that blind people in fact dream but what most grabbed my attention was the fact that you forget 90% of what you dream.

Within the first 5 minutes of waking up, your conscious mind can only remember that remaining 10% and if you've just had an epic dream and tell someone about it, no matter how much you convince yourself, you're missing a huge majority of what happened. 

I find this really interesting because it poses a number of questions over the subconscious activity that goes on in our brains. It shows how little we know about ourselves, that so much information is hidden from us by ourselves and that we truly have a very limited control over our conscious actions.

The beauty of dreams is that they are this gateway into our subconscious but personally, I never have straight-forward dreams and often have to answer countless riddles in order to decipher a meaning out of them. However, once you take enough time to try and understand them, it can be quite therapeutic as this article also mentions, the most common emotions are anxiety and fear. 

http://www.boredpanda.com/15-interesting-facts-about-dreams-dreaming/

Because so much escapes our conscious mind, are we really that self-aware? and can we truly give ourselves an identity if we know so little about ourselves? I would recommend taking a gander at Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, personally I've never finished it but it's a great read and reveals much about the mind that you probably weren't aware of.