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Directions: Answer the question on the basis of what is stated or implied in the twin passage.

Passage – I

There are many different approaches philosophers have taken to explain dreams and what they mean. Why do I dream? There are several answers to that question. The first in the physiological set. We dream in order to exercise our brains. When we’re awake, messages are constantly speeding among all our billions of brain cells to keep us moving and thinking and digesting and so on. So the idea is that when we’re asleep, dreams exercise the "pathways" between brains cells. A couple of ideas that might help this make sense are; the first couple of years of our life are the most intense for learning which is also when we have the greatest amount of REM sleep–which means we are dreaming a lot. Another thing is your brain waves during REM sleep look about the same as your brain waves while we are awake. During other parts of sleep, the brain waves look very different (a lot slower). There is also a psychological set of ideas about why we dream. Since psychology has to do with our thoughts and emotions it has been said dreams are actually about immediate concerns in our lives. In the bible and within a lot of cultures dreams are thought to be prophetic, which means they can predict the future. Sigmund Freud a famous psychoanalyst gave us a lot of ideas on how our minds work and was very interested in interpreting dreams. He thought dreams contained symbols hidden deep within our minds and memories

Passage – II

Why do we dream? Are they instructions from the spiritual world or just deep, hidden wishes that can be used to unlock the secrets of the unconscious mind? Nobody knows for sure. One theory that is prevalent today is that dreams result from the physiological "exercise" of the synapses of the brain. There is no proven fact on why we dream, which is why there are so many theories on the topic. There is Freud's theory that dreams carry our hidden desires and Jung’s theory that dreams carry meaning, although not always of desire, and that the dreamer can interpret these dreams. After these theories, others continued such as the Cayce theory in that dreams are our body’s means of building up of the mental, spiritual and physical well being. Finally, there was the argument between Evans' theory and the Crick and Mitchinson theory. Evans states that dreaming is our bodies way of storing the vast array of information gained during the day, whereas Crick and Mitchinson say that this information is being dumped rather than stored. Whichever theory is true, we may never know, but from these following theories we can decide for ourselves what we believe to be true and further help us into understanding our dreams. My own personal theory on why we dream is that the subconscious mind is always working. This results in dreams.