Dream a little dream

I awoke at 4 a.m. on Tuesday morning, remarkably aware of every detail of the seemingly quite long dream I had just had. The possible reasons for why I had dreamed what I had kept me awake several hours, or as is the way it goes, until a half hour before my alarm was to go off, so that when it did ring, I was shocked that I had fallen back to sleep.

They say that dreams are a window into our subconscious and yet there are just as many theories of why we dream as there are doctors, psychiatrists, scientists and new age gurus. It’s an interesting concept, that dreams are somehow pointing out mea...