first reflection

Dream Mysteries Decoded

         The main issue of this article is controlling our dreams can help us regulate our mood and potentially wake up happier.

         I think this an article from a magazine about healthcare. The purpose of this article is to tell people about their dreams. Why do they have dreams when they are sleeping, why don’t they remember their dreams when they wake up, how to control their dreams and what are the benefits of controlling our dreams. The writer wrote this article to help people recognize the importance of their dreams and to correct people’s misunderstanding that dreams are just something that happen without any meaning.

         The writer’s own point of view is presented in the article. He thinks that learn to control our dreams can benefit us a lot. He also thinks that people who play video games are easier to control their dreams than those people who do not play. He also states that gamers have fewer violent or frightening dreams than non-gamers.

         The writer quotes some sources from some scientists’ investigation. “Scientists estimate that we forget 95 percent—or more—of our dreams, mainly because they fade fast after we wake up. Up to 90 percent of their content is lost within 10 minutes.” The quotes this sources to state the reason why we always forget our dreams. This source makes the whole article more reliable because it is result made by scientists who most people believe.

          In my opinion, dreams are very important to us just as the writer said. I think most of us ignore the importance of a dream which is not right. Some of us think dream is something what happens occasionally after we go to sleep. There is not any use and meanings of our dreams. However, this understanding of dreams is not right. According to the writer, if we learn how to control our dreams, we are able to control our mood of the moment of getting up. If we get up happy this morning, I am sure we will have a happier mood and be able to finish our job in a higher efficient. Hence, we need to care more about our dreams.