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Dreaming in humans
Dreams are fantasy experiences that spontaneously arise during sleep. All humans and higher developed animals have dreams. In dreams, emotions are predominant, notions of time and space are unclear and non-real images are frequently featured. Experiences of the day, the so-called day residue, may likewise be a part of dreams.
There are various opinions regarding the purpose of dreaming in humans. Some researchers expound the theory that dreams help us process information received over the course of the day. According to this view, this occurs through the taking up of day residue and through the linking of this day residue with older, similar experiences of the dreamer. Memory researchers, on the other hand, are of the opinion that dreams serve to delete unnecessary information that has been collected over the day. Physiologists believe that dreams are an attendant phenomenon of neural discharge sequences of the brain stem and reject any sort of independent function.
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Dreaming with Ada
When Ada is asleep, the sounds and the light are calm and soft. The sudden occurrence of abrupt and accentuated light effects and sounds indicates that Ada is dreaming. Ada’s dreams consist of images of visitors she found interesting for some reason.
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