Dreams
Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, as well as a subject of philosophical and religious interest, throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology. Scientists believe that, in addition to humans, certain birds and the majority of mammals also dream.
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“We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they are half forgotten ere we have learned the language.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“These, his images and happenings of the mind, scrambled from his lips and entertained the listeners for a day, then went to join the thousands of other dreams where they dwelt.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)