Discover the connection between emotions, dreams and nightmares

Have you ever wondered why we evolved to dream? Or why dreams can seem so real and meaningful when we are experiencing them but are mostly forgotten? Or why, when we do manage to remember a dream, it often seems so weird?

This site offers the answers to this age-old mystery - the function of dreaming - as well as explaining the connection between dreaming, depression, schizophrenia and hypnosis. It also explains the overwhelming importance to evolution of the REM state.

When something evolves it is usually for a good reason, and dreaming is no different.

A new horizon: Discover the connection between emotions, dreams and sanity, and the vital importance of the REM state

In the expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming (first published in 1993), psychologist Joe Griffin explains how far from being a mere by-product of 'brain down-time' as some people think, dreaming plays a central role in keeping us sane and in some circumstances, it can quite literally, drive us mad.

Read on to find out more about the expectation fufilment theory of dreams ...

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