What comes first, dreams or imagination?

Question

Which one creates a start for the other, or are both entirely independant

Answer 1

THAT IS A BRILLIANT QUESTION :)
i say imagination because without this, our dreams would no happen...

Answer 2

What a wonderful question! I think they must depend on one another. If I dream something, then my imagination has access to it. If I imagine something, then I might dream it. Perhaps they are the same thing. If I dream, as in imagine, make up, of a better life, then dream is imagination. If I go to sleep and dream, and wake up with an idea, it must be my imagination that came up with it.

Have good dreams tonight. You have imagined a wondertful question.

Answer 3

i believe they are two different functions. imagination we use all of the time, we use it in waking mode as well as sleeping.

in sleep mode we dream, i am never aware of my own input into a dream, they are not coordinated by me. my dreams are strange but always make perfect sense. but i must need my imagination in order to create the dream. like using crayons, the imagination is the tool. but imagination can be pre-conceived.

so the answer must be imagination.

but then, i'm not sure because......

it would be interesting to know if sleep deprivation stops the imagination from working. no dreams no imagination......

.....maybe they are interlinked.

basically, i don't know, but great question.

Answer 4

I have very little imagination but I am full of dreams. And yet when I am lacking in dreams my imagination can still flourish. A tiring day of work and thoughts may lead to a night devoid of dreams.

Answer 5

Well from a purely Scientific point of view the mind "dreams" even in the womb.
Now the question becomes What is IMAGINATION? is it the ability to CONSCIOUSLY think of something ... I think the imagination IS dreaming and Dreaming is the imagination.
The Word of God says he Thinks of us even in the womb therefore his imagination is towards us now if his imagination is towards us and he created us to worship and commune with him then we must have the ability to think back about him even in the womb. Therefore Our dreams and imagination are one and the same.

Answer 6

Dreams are a manifestation of your imagination so in that sense you imagine things first.

But on rare cases you have dreams that are entirely unrelated so then now dreams comes first.

I guess this is hard to answer !!!!!!!!

Answer 7

There is no such thing as innate ideas. Any idea you might have is just an adapted form of something in this universe. So, Neither dreams or imagination come first. Facts come first.

Answer 8

Dreams are the brains way of encoding memory of a particular event, It doesn't always make sense as you have no control over the order of the encoding to long term memory.

Imagination is the brain trying to perceive the perfect event or situation, with information taken from memory or dreams.

Answer 9

you start by imagining something then you dream about it. you cant dream about the ocean when you dont have a clue what it is. First you imagine how the ocean should look like then dream about it..

Answer 10

you go into rem sleep and then your imagination takes over on the events duri9ng the day and tends to exspand it alittle, which makes you dream of whatever to coinside with the imagination,they are both independant, but both go toghether to make your dream if you get me lol.