{"id":4473,"date":"2009-11-03T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/dreams-and-sleep\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:37:00","slug":"dreams-and-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/dreams-and-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams and sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400282746619371394\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/SvGoi87rH4I\/AAAAAAAAASw\/b0XP-hxfXPw\/s400\/119_1982.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>This week the fifth grade students and I talked about dreams and sleep and the mysterious world of non-waking life. Our conversation, excerpted below, ranged from an exploration of dreams and nightmares and why they occur the way they do, to wondering about whether all of life is a dream or illusory in some way. We started by talking about the ways in which sleeping is different from being awake.<\/p>\n<p>One student suggested that perhaps sleep is closer to death than being awake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d another student responded, \u201cI think that sleeping is more like unconsciousness than death. Sleeping is really not close to death. I mean, you have to sleep to live. If you don\u2019t sleep, then you will be dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re sleeping you dream, and when you\u2019re unconscious you dream, but when you die you don\u2019t dream,\u201d offered a third student.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we know that?\u201d asked another. \u201cNobody knows unless they\u2019re dead whether dead people dream or not. No one comes back after they\u2019re dead and tells us that they dream or they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever I have dreams,\u201d one girl described, \u201cmy parents ask me what happened. They tell me that when you dream, your subconscious mind is telling you things that when you\u2019re awake you don\u2019t consider. I don\u2019t think that when you sleep you\u2019re close to being dead. Sleep is part of being alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that a part of your mind takes notes on everything you do, and these come out in your dreams. Dreams get you to deal with things in your life that maybe you are trying not to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo then you have to be thinking when you dream because your mind is working. Without thinking there would be no dreams,\u201d declared a student.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about whether the mind stops working at death, and whether you can ever stop your mind from working when you\u2019re alive. We discussed why we dream, and why some dreams are nightmares, and whether we can ever control our dreams.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI have a dream about Voldemort from Harry Potter,\u201d one student said. \u201cHe\u2019s wearing a t-shirt and shorts, and he rides a bike. He tries to get into our house. He climbs up the outside of the house and starts slamming on the doors, trying to find a way in. I\u2019ve had this dream a few times. It scares me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can think about things during the day and keep yourself from dreaming about them at night,\u201d suggested another student.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder if we are really a dream right now,\u201d a boy asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes,\u201d a girl responded, \u201cI think that maybe we\u2019re all dolls being played with, like my sister playing with dolls. 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