Dream Studies and Dream Interpretation
I woke up this morning with a strange and bizarre dream still fresh in my head, slowly walked to my kitchen to get some coffee, and read this article about why I (and you for that matter) even dream in the first place. There are numerous reasons why we dream, although what we glean from our dreams in the first place is up to us.
According to the results of a 2001 study using rats, a majority of the rats in the study appeared to be dreaming about the experience that they had just previous to falling asleep in the first place: namely, running in circles on a circular track so to speak.