Why We Dream

"Dreaming men are haunted men," wrote Stephen St. Vincent Benet, and we have all had that sense that dreams are indeed the realm of ghosts, a world that touches the everyday and yet stands essentially apart from it. Dreams are both immensely powerful and yet fragile will-o'-the-wisps and we struggle each morning to hold on to and understand them even as we know that the light of each day will vanquish them. While researchers and lexicographers struggle to pin down the nature of dreams - describing them in terms of the physiology of sleep - my own definition is purely subjective.

And yet even though I believe that it is important for each person to define for himself or herself the nature of dreams given how fundamentally subjective

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