I know why we dream?

Question

dream/sleep acts as a natural drug witch gives good or bad trips and its also addicting

tell me your appinon

Answer 1

haha cool idea! i think its coz when we sleep our ming is going over all our memories and thoguhts and fears and restoring all the parts of out brain. :D

Answer 2

I disagree.

Though it's interestingly mentionable that nobody knows for sure exactly why the body needs sleep, dreams are basically just the mind working when it has nothing to do.  Dreams are usually about what is stressing you or getting you excited.

Answer 3

Scientists can't even figure out completely why we dream as of yet. Its a big mystery with numerous speculations. Dreams can be repressed thoughts, brain chemistry, neurons activated, sexual inhibitations (freud's theory) or actual premonitions. For instance, before Lincoln was assassinated he had a dream he was going to be killed. The chinese thought that the dream world was the soul leaving the body into the other world where we go when we die.

Personally, I think it's inner thoughts, brain tryin to solve issues during sleep, also  mixed with premonitions of the future.

Answer 4

"As we dream the left hemisphere of our neocortex which is involved in reading, speaking and rationality may be busy and so unavailable to our consciousness. This might allow the right side of our brain, which is involved in pattern recognition, 3D vision and pictures, to be noticed. The reptilian part of our brain, which is also usually suppressed during the day, may also gain some control.

The evolution of the neocortex provided a new way of seeing the world. The world perceived through the reptilian brain is perhaps similar to how we feel when we dream. Reptiles do not dream when they sleep perhaps because they live their waking life in this state, where they do not test reality and cannot imagine any other kind of world but the one presented to them.

In our dreams we are presented with images and sounds that we don't always comprehend, we find ourselves running from things and searching for other things and yet we do not know what. We are only aware of the last few minutes behind us and the next few ahead. In our dreams we can recognise sensory signs but we can hardly ever read words. We can only concentrate on what is right in front of us with little thought of the past or future and have strong emotional responses but little ability to reason. We do not have a real sense of self and if we do it is not active, there is a sense of fatalism where we are powerless over what we do and what happens to us. We can sense two parts of ourselves in some dreams, that of the silent observer, possibly the dreams author and that of our character within the dream. This 'watcher self' is also said to sometimes appear LSD trips and in other experiments with our consciousness."

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Answer 5

Dreams confuse me.I always wonder why I dream about people dying and big homes and having a baby.Why  do we dream these kind of dreams.My mom says over eating will do this as weird as it sounds.

Answer 6

Yes!

(I only said that, so I can hopefully get the best answer. Honestly, I would've written no, but it's not like that matters since I mentioned that now. Oh c**p.)

:D

Answer 7

Nah there is no straight answer to why you dream.

Dreams come from the subconcious, what is normally filtered out by your ego is still noticed subconciously, when you go to sleep you leave your normal phisical self behind and go into your own personal astral exsistance, ie. stuff thats in your subconcious, this includes disires, fears, hopes, aspects of the present the past and the future. Always take notice of yoru dreams, they are usualy symbolic and work out what they mean.

The question is not so much "why do I dream" as "what can dreaming do for me".

I love dreams, specially lucid ones, anyone reading this, if you don't learn how to!

As to why do we sleep?

It's the foothold you have in realitys beyond this phisical dimension. In relation to this the phisical brain needs to shut it's self down and reset it's self, or you'd basically become a total robot, controlled by the phisical brain and all that entails and nothing else.

Answer 8

I have theory, it could be wildly wrong but cause i don't really know much about it. When you sleep right you body shuts down, well goes on standby at least and your brain isn't getting any data from your senses and has nothing to analyse and there for its got not a lot to do and your brain has lots of little electricity wire things and that's how it works and because nothing is happening the just start randomly firing off and volare you have dreams. does that make sense? So no i don't think  dreams are a natural drug, because of that and because when people talk about natural drugs i think they're talking more along the lines of hormones and such.

Answer 9

My "opinion" is that there are researchers who study this. And they say they still havn't figured it out. And we know your not an expert by your spelling of appinon.  ?   ITS OPINION! lol Cheers!

Answer 10

no, sleep isnt addictive, it is required, try depriving yourself of sleep completely (or polyphasic sleeping).  Sleep actually works to both switch short term memory to long term and organize unattended thoughts.