You have had a very long day. You are tired emotionally, mentally and physically. Finally, you fall asleep and suddenly you begin to have a deep intricate dream.

Lucid dreams are dreams that a person can control. According to LifeScript, on average, a person spends about six years of their lifetime dreaming and quite a bit of those dreams can be lucid. However, not everyone has the power to control their dreams.

“I remember my dreams all the time,” senior Lexie Reinhardt said. “I had a lucid dream once and then all of a sudden had five in one week.”

Although there is a wide portion of students who do remember their dreams, others do not which can be a direct result of how much sleep a person gets.

“Usually I can only remember my dreams if I get enough sleep,” junior Morgan Boeger said.

Sometimes, dreams might have a meaning behind them. A few students say there is in fact a meaning behind every dream.

“I think when you dream of someone you miss them,” sophomore Savannah Weilert.

Senior Oli Anderson said dreams are more of a mind trigger than meaning.

“I think dreams are the brains way of working things out that they want to remember,” Anderson said.

Some students even say it’s the last thing that happens to be on their mind.

“For me, it’s always the last thing that I think of before I fall asleep,” Boeger said.

Common traumas teens and young children go through are a type of nightmare called night terrors.

“One time I had a dream and it was almost impossible to wake up from,” Weilert said. “I was playing video games with my cousin and could hear someone talking badly of me. I couldn’t tell if I was awake or asleep.”

Dreams can either be in color or black and white.

“Most of the time my dreams are in color,” senior Shayla Cochran said.

Boeger is much different.

“I haven’t really noticed my dreams as much in color as I do black and white,” Boeger said.

Some of the students who have talked about their dreams have also taken a psychology class with instructor Matt Brooks, however, in all research and teaching, there is no true reasoning behind what we call dreams.

“A lot of scientists have done plenty of research,” Cochran said. “But none of them have seemed to find a common ground to the root of dreams.”

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