Dreams have fascinated us for millennia and with good reason. Every sleep of our lives presents this unique opportunity to access a fantastical, mystical world where quite literally anything could happen and generally does. This is the world of our dreams. Moments of truth that, reveal something of our selves.

The definitive purpose of dreaming remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of life. The worlds of science and psychology both have their views but no one has the absolute answer as to whether dreams are purely a physiological or psychological necessity.  Dreams are many things, often all at once. Science has so far proven that they are ways of seeking solutions; maintaining our mental health; improving performance and maintaining sleep.

From my own experience of dreams I believe they play a more fundamental role in our lives than we have thus far given them credit for.  For me, their purpose is threefold; they are a process of re-organisation of the self, a means to understanding who we truly are and an infinite source of creativity and inspiration.

This latter idea, of exploiting their creative potential, is the most unexplored and potentially evolutionary way of using our dreams. The idea that dreams are More >