05/2/08
Some people show up to class or work naked. Others can fly, self-duplicate or become invisible. In dreams, anything can happen.
Sophomore Bob Linebarger doesn't remember his dreams but wishes he could. Most people don't, according to 1996 research by doctors Inge Strauch and Barbara Meier. Less than 30 percent of 18- to 22-year-olds say they can recall their dreams.
Despite the inability to remember them, everyone dreams, according to the Discovery Channel. Human beings dream for about two hours every night, which adds up to nearly six years over a lifetime.
Out of all of the dreams he knows he has probably had, senior Jared Weseloh has only ever been able to remember one of them.
"A tornado was coming toward my house, but it never really got there," he said. "Then, I realized it wasn't really my house, and I was in a basement that was two feet underground."
Some dreams are seemingly disconnected.
"I was at a prom kind of party with my boyfriend, and everyone was drinking. I hate that," sophomore Rachael Moon said. "So, I was taking care of people, and I came around the corner, and there was a girl straddling my guy. Then later, five rather large guys were all trying to pile on a bike to go somewhere in Manhattan. I was going to take a car to go wherever we were going, but it had a flat tire, so I asked a police officer who was randomly standing there to air up my tire."
Freshman Lauren Miller said she sometimes tries to control what is in her dreams. A few weeks ago, she and her sister decided to try to call one another into their dreams.
"(In my dream) I was talking to my mom, and I was like 'Cara's not here,' so I yelled, 'Cara, Cara,' and she came."
Freshman Heather Jones remembers her dreams most of the time. Though what she dreams about are usually random topics.
"One time there was a burglar chasing me around Baldwin," she said.
Freshman Alex Puderbaugh said she dreams every night about her friends and things going on in her life.
"The other day, I had a dream I failed accounting," she said.
One of the most famous theories on the significance of dreams is Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic model that states desires that are ordinarily repressed because they represent forbidden impulses are given expression in dreams, though often in symbolic form.
While people have been interpreting the meaning of dreams since Old Testament Biblical days when Joseph interpreted dreams for Pharaoh, even the most common dreams like dreams about being chased, failing or being nude in public don't have clear-cut interpretations.
Sophomore Michael Stickelman said he has read about interpreting dreams.
"Whenever you dream, you dream about what is happening in your life," he said. "So, when you dream about dying, it's supposed to signify some big change in your life."
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