Where do these dreams come from? I dream ever night, no nightmares, in fact some of the dreams are actually funny, and sometimes they don't make any sense at all.
How about you?
My dreams comes in these weird intervals where my brain goes hyper and i can dream multiple dreams every night for a period and then suddenly i don't dream anything at all for a period, not that i can remember at least, i don't know how normal that is.
shareOne of the psychology professors I had was a "dream expert" if there could be such a thing. She worked with patients who suffered from trauma dreams. Although science isn't entirely sure why we dream, there are ideas that it's our brain's way of sorting what experiences we've had that day. The thought was that it was like our brain filing things to different areas and the result is dreams.
No idea if that really is true, but I like the explanation.
It sort of makes sense, the brain sorting things out. But I'm not sure it explains bizarre (not scary) dreams, although maybe the bizarre ones allow our imaginations to run free, to develop, or something along those lines.
shareI think that the bizarre dreams come from the brain not knowing exactly where something is supposed to go. It might be crossed with a thought that you had throughout the day or something that you saw that you didn't even register and so it pops up in an unrelated way in our dreams.
I don't really know if that has any merit, but I like it, so I'm going with it.
My dreams tend to be a little weird and not to have a lot to do with my day.
shareIt's not a perfect theory, nor my area of psychology, but I do write down my dreams when I can remember them and more often than not I can find correlations. This is also after years of trying to analyze my dreams mind you. I have some really, really strange ones.
I mentioned this in another thread on dreams, but stress manifests itself in my dreams as tornadoes. It took me awhile to figure it out, but once I did, it helped me deal with it.
That matches what I have learned.
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I don't remember 99% of my dreams, because I smoke a good amount of pot before bed. But yesterday, I had a dream this girl I used to have sex with was in her robe, and sneaking in my kitchen, trying to steal my painkillers (which she did about 14 years ago).
I usually can realize why I had the dream. Usually something symbolic.
Dreams usually make little to no sense. Some of my dreams I remember, yet can't begin to explain them.
In any case, I once read (Freud?) that dreams are a way of allowing ourselves to go insane so that we stay sane during waking hours. I think that's the gist of it.
Because the brain activity does not stop when you are in that shutdown mode. It's argued that a lot of memory processing and storage takes place during this mode --- The main thing occurring is the muscles being taken offline so that proteins can be used to rebuild them from the day's activities. I imagine that most of a growing body's growth also occurs during sleep, but that's just a reasonable guess.
sharemost of the time I can only remember when I suddenly wake from REM, theres been other times though, mini dreams within dreams, my brains simple
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