IntroductionSleep is an essential need for all human beings of all cultures. Throughout history, different religions and societies have tried to interpret the true meaning of dreams during unconscious sleep. Are they truly prophetic messages or windows into a hidden compartment of the mind? And what does our brain do during sleep? Are our emotions in dreams the same emotions in a conscious, awake state? Does the brain process emotion as a real “feeling” or is it just an illusion that our brain creates to make dream stories more realistic? Understanding this idea can help us more precisely define what an emotion is. It can help us understand whether emotions are always related to the same brain region in different conscious states. It also gives psychologists a broader window into the importance of dreams themselves. Dreams could prove capable of increasing emotional intelligence if emotions are actually proven to not be cranial illusions, or they could give a broader purpose to why we dream in the first place. If dreams are actually illusions created in the brain during REM sleep, why? Further research can be done to understand the evolutionary need for these illusions in the brain and what purpose they actually serve. This experiment serves to demonstrate whether the emotions we experience in our dreams are actually related to emotions during conscious and semi-conscious states. Using fMRI machines, experimenters will record brain activity to see where induced emotions occur in the brain and their specific brain regions. Prior to any emotional induction a sleep clinic will be used to measure the amount of sleep movements performed by the subjects to see which individuals move too much for accurate readings so they can be retrained, if necessary, in the middle of the paper. ..... emotion: a meta-analytic review. Payne, J., & Nadel, L. (2004). Sleep, dreams and memory consolidation: the role of the stress hormone cortisol. Robert, S., & P, W. M. (2006, January). Sleep, memory and plasticity. (Annual Review of Psychology) Retrieved November 25, 2013, from http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.psych.56.091103.070307Van Gulick, R. (2011, August). Consciousness. Retrieved December 1, 2013, from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Consciousness: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ awareness/#4Wilkerson, R. (2013). The science of REM dreams. Retrieved December 1, 2013, from Dream Library: http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/library/idx_science_rem.htmYaso, M., Nuruki, A., Tsujimura, S.-i., & Yunokuchi, K. ( 2006 ). REM sleep detection via heart rate. Retrieved from http://www.psycho.hes.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~lab_miura/Kansei/Workshop/proceedings/P-205.pdf