Sweet dreams are made of…mental health?

Lisa Oesterreicher

Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: Health

 

Sometimes, a dream might make sense. However, 90 percent of the time, individuals wake up in a groggy-eyed stupor-trying to decipher the series of random events that occupied the last few hours of their sleep.

Confusing and unpredictable as dreams are, most people are likely to believe that they don't mean anything-that dreams are just a purposeless jumble of thoughts and images stored away in the subconscious. However, new science suggests that dreams may be much more useful.

According to a MSNBC Health article, experts believe that dreams are valuable to one's mental health. Dreams can supply individuals with