Synopsis
Sigmund Freud captivated crowds with his theory that dreams are manifestations of suppressed desires. A more popular consensus is that dreams do have a purpose, and this purpose is largely connected to our emotions. Dreams seem to help us process emotions by encoding and constructing memories of them. Or perhaps, they are simply serving as a sort of data dump—a clearing of the day’s useless memories and a caching of the valuable ones. Whatever they are, we do not truly know, but the mystery of dreams inspired us to document countless dreams. Here are a few selected from our continuing human awareness campaign, conceived and directed by our own Richard Radstone: “Dreams.”