Dreams By: Jacob Clelland

heavy lids droop upon stain-glass eyes, the mouth and nose let out a soft sigh, the foot kicks out, hitting the wall, the heart speeds up, a dog barks somewhere afar dreams, sweet dreams slowly seep in, the mind unguarded, the body frozen. The eyes shake, the eyes shudder Deep in Rem sleep, the vocal chords opens and mutters. Sweet dreams... Someone said that space is the last frontier, another, more recently, said that the brain is the new frontier, or at least the new last frontier. But dreams, what about dreams? Those vivid yet fuzzy images and impressions. Those subtle insights into an imagination that was not known. Those details that most forget the instant they wake up, what about dreams In the days of Noah and other biblical times dreams were the messages of God and nightmares the messages of demons. The Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Middle Eastern societies of the ancient world believed dreams to be messages from a divine source. What is it about dreams that makes us as humans desire to call upon divine intervention as the cause for dreams? Is it just superstition, one's worldview or a desire for meaning in the world? The modern day ideology of dreams is centered around the idea that dreams are manifestations of complex electrical impulses in the brain among neurons. This view, while scientifically still debated and considered “correct” by many scientists, doesn't necessarily dismiss the views of the ancient world toward dreams. Cannot a god or gods that is or are considered all powerful or personal, or who intervene in the lives of mortals manipulate the electrical impulses as we humans do when performing brain surgery? What, then, are, dreams?