The Matrix. The second reason is that you can learn a great deal about yourself. Characters in
dreams can tell you quite a bit, if you ask the right questions.
Dream types aside, there are many myths about dreams and many facts about dreams.
Many people believe they don’t dream. That is not true. Everyone has about four dreams a night;
they just don’t remember them. Many people also believe we dream in black and white. That is
far from true. Very few people don’t dream in color. I know I do. Despite what some people
believe, the amount of time you spend in a dream is equal to the amount of time you experience
in a dream. Contrary to some of us may think, everything in a dream is not about sex. Very few
things are, in fact. You can fly in any dream. The reason you don’t fly in every dream is that you
usually don’t try to fly. People believe that you can completely control a lucid dream. That is not
quite true. You can control most things that you cannot see, (in other words, you can decide
what something is before you see it, but once it is in your field of view, it stays the way it is) and
you can move things and turn things on and off with your mind. Other than that, you can only
control yourself. (You can change shape, which is pretty cool.)
The mind is a curious thing, and never is it more curious than when it is supposedly
turned off. In fact, it is never turned off. (Good thing, too, because it would probably just flash
“12:00″ over and over when it came back on, like your VCR does.) At any rate, enjoy your
nocturnal entertainment, and if you feel the need, analyze it like the Zebruder Footage or the
Sergeant Pepper album cover. Whatever you decide to learn from your dreams, enjoy them.