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She was standing with her eyes closed at the edge of an opened door in an airplane as it flew thousands of feet above the ground. I was standing quivering next to her following her every move. She clasped my small hand in hers and we slowly stepped from the plane to begin our descent to the clay colored ground below. This was my sister and when I looked into her brown eyes I saw total love and compassion. I trusted her because of this. When she spoke me to in her soft voice I felt nurtured and safe. She instructed me to place my feet on an outside angle and about a foot apart telling me that this would help retard our descent and make us float to the earth. In this way, we would both enjoy the ride and make it last longer. I was thrilled and could see she felt the same. When we came close to the ground there was no feeling of concern that we would plummet and injure ourselves. In fact, when we finally touched the rich earth it was with such gentleness I wasn't sure we completed our journey. Then I awakened with the most terrific feeling of peace and tranquility. It was all a dream yet so powerful and real I knew there must be meaning behind it. I needed to investigate the questions of what is a dream, why do we dream and do the dreams have meaning in our lives?

Taken from the Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Dreamwork) states "a dream is the experience of envisioned images, sounds, or sensations during sleep. The events are often impossible or unlikely to occur in physical reality, and are usually outside the control of the dreamer. The exception is lucid dreaming, in which a dreamer realizes that he is dreaming, and is sometimes even capable of changing the oneiric reality around him or her and controlling various aspects of the dream, in which the suspension of disbelief is broken." Dream research is called oneirology.

There are many different views on why we dream. Some people believe dreaming serves no purpose at all; while others believe dreaming helps us understand and solve our daily problems in a dream state. To some, these problems are most likely psychological. There is another theory that dreams could be from our evolutionary past, perhaps where they served as a mental training ground for life struggles. Could dreams possibly play an important role in brain development? Perhaps because an infant sleeps sixteen to eighteen hours a day and spends 50% of this time dreaming, the stimulation of the dream state helps

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