(January 25, 2005) — Dreams are figments of our imagination that appear while we sleep. They can also be a recap of things that occurred during the week or omens foretelling what will happen in the future. Dreams will also portray things in our own life such as our anxieties, fears and obsessions. For senior David Kim, his obsession for martial arts master and movie star Bruce Lee has led to a life-defining dream. “Bruce was fighting his enemy, Bolo, from the movie Enter the Dragon in my bathroom,” says Kim. Kim explains that during the fight between Bolo and Bruce, he could hear every punch and kick. Bruce, being Kim’s all time hero, couldn’t let Bruce be beaten by Bolo. Kim, having acquired great martial art skills himself, says he “attempted to open the door by doing a flying side kick, but the door wouldn’t break.” During most of his dream, Kim says he executed almost all the moves he learned from Tae Kwon Do class, but the door still wouldn’t budge. With Kim physically tired during the whole dream, he says he remembered a quotation Bruce Lee said during Enter the Dragon : “Life is not a battle of the body, but a battle of the mind.” With this lesson having dawned on him during his dream, Kim says he tried opening the door by meditating on the door knob. “After a while it opened, Bolo disappeared and Bruce Lee congratulated me.” Kim’s dream can have different meanings. According to dreammoods.com , a dream that involves a fight indicates an inner turmoil such as a struggle in life. In Kim’s case, his dream involved others fighting, suggesting that he is not taking responsibility in resolving issues in his life. A dreamer should not take only one interpretation of his or her dream because as taught in Diana Jaynes’ psychology class, a dream can have many different interpretations. In Jaynes’ psychology class last month, students kept dream journals and recorded their dreams after each night’s sleep and researched different theories of dream interpretations. Students were able to analyze the notes they took from their dreams and define them in many different interpretations. Students also learned how and why dreams occur. According to www.sleepdisorderchannel.net , sleep is divided into five stages and often a sixth is included called the waking stage. The first stage is when the sleeper is in the state of drowsiness and this lasts for approximately five to ten minutes. At the second stage the body relaxes, the heart rate slows and body temperature decreases. The body prepares to enter deep sleep during this stage. The third and fourth stages are characterized as slow wave and the body enters into deep sleep. The fifth and final stage, also called the REM (rapid eye movement) sleep stage, is when dreams occur. The stage is characterized by physiological changes such as increase in heart rate and REM respiration and often twitching of the face, fingers and legs. The first four stages, called non-REM sleep, last from 90-100 minutes with stages two and three repeating backwards. During a night’s sleep, the average person goes through the entire five-stage cycle five times with each cycle lasting approximately 100 minutes. In Kim’s case his sleep lasted for six hours, which means he went through the five-stage cycle at most four times with his dream occurring during the fifth REM stage. Kim’s dream was one that reminded him of a lesson he had learned, but never managed to apply in his life. To him, his dream was a lighthouse that would help him out through life. Whether one believes dreams actually indicate real life occurrences or not, they are still unexplainable and a mystery to us all.