I decided to do my reaction paper on the meaning of dreams for it interested me as to why people dream and recall dreams after awakening. I read that dreams have been characterized as meaningless, the result of random nerve cell activity. If a dream is remembered at all, it is most often the one that occurred in the last phase of REM sleep. The article suggested that dreaming consists of association and memories elicited from the forebrain in response to random signals from the brain stem. Dreams also resulted from order that was imposed on the chaos of neutral signals and that order…
