Gary Wright's 'Popular Song Dream Weaver'

INTRODUCTION
In the 1970’s, the popular song Dream Weaver by Gary Wright was released. The song depicts the singer requesting a “Dream Weaver” to grant him a dream that will fulfill his fantasies, help him forget his worries, and get him through the night. However, unlike the popular song, there is no supernatural force, or “weaver,” that grants dreams. Dreams are not arbitrary, enigmatic forces that are only obtained by being alongside the high status of gods or granted from some power. In actuality, dreams are psychological structures that are natural responses to external stimuli, conflicts, and moods. Their content can be explained and interpreted through an understanding that sensory stimulus, experience, wish fulfillment, and one’s emotional
Concurring with analytical psychologist, Carl Jung’s “By-Product” theory that the brain attempts to turn those recognized impulses into sensory input; producing vivid hallucinations, know as dreams, it is understandable that the brain then tries to make sense of those stimuli and their origins as well as causes. However, research using PET scans has shown that the part of the brain that makes sense of these stimulations is fairly inactive during sleep (Wade, 1998). This, in turn, can end up being the result of the strange scenarios that can occur in REM sleep and the reason that dreams are more emotionally afflicting rather than structurally coherent. “The fact that a fairly powerful stimulus will awaken us at anytime is evidence that even in sleep the soul is in constant contact with whatever is situated or occurring in the world outside the body. The sensory stimuli that reach us during sleep may very well become sources of dreams (Freud, 1953).” Many seemingly confusing parts of dreams can very well be attributed to stimulus that occurs extracorporeally. Ergo, individuals are capable of interpreting the meaning behind certain parts of his or her dream as simply reactions to disturbances that were recognized by the sleeping mind. A study by research psychologists, Carey K.
They may recall an image or various images from the dream; however, they cannot describe how the images connected to encompass the dream (i.e., as one would tell a story). Alternately, they may describe vivid images, with powerful feelings associated with the image and experienced both in the dream and upon awakening (Marszalek, J., & Myers, J.,2006).” From the waking mind to what is left of the dream, a lot of extra information that makes it easier to interpret that dream through plausible explanations has been forgotten. However, the information that the brain has retained since waking can still be explained. Whether or not a dream fills a desire or highlights and magnifies certain stresses or worries from the day, all dreams can be interpreted to have a connection to one’s emotional state and experiences from past or present. If an individual is preoccupied with some emotion, over some dilemma or desire, his or her dream is likely to be focused on those emotions and distort experiences, while the brain compiles the imagery, emotion, and any stimulus into a gripping plot that reflects