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There is Freud’s approach, where there is surface content placed into a physical scenario which links them to latent, hidden and symbolic forms which are represented by the manifested physical content of a dream. There is the activation synthesis theory, where the cortex takes a random active thought adds random stimuli, involves random sense organs and synthesizes a story to make sense of all of the activity in the brain. This would mean that all dreams are meaningless and are randomly selected impulses within the brain. Some dreams are spontaneous but the most vividly remembered usually have meaning. The Neurocognitive theory is that what we dream is merely what we are thinking about but without control of our thoughts in the conditions of sleep. I personally believe that all of these theories are correct in some way or another, this is because no two minds think alike. Each individual has their own method of reasoning and therefore their minds eye has its own way of viewing experiences and past thoughts and somehow meshing them into a story which can either hold a deep inner meaning or absolutely no meaning at all depending on how important those thoughts are to the individual, personally.