What causes dreams? I dream everytime i sleep in the daytime or night.?

Question

The strange thing about it is i dont usually dream about anything i thought of or anything familiar with my daily life.I dream of different things, love, fighting someone or a monster, running,having sex, being in a different country for tour, floating, being with family members and sometimes i laugh out loud or talk loud whilst in a deep sleep.I have been dreaming since childhood and i have seen my younger brother too talk and laugh or smiles in his sleep.What is this?? i want to understand where they come from.

Answer 1

Normally, dreams reflect your personal life's events, whether they're good or bad. Especially nightmares. It's all part of REM (Rapid Eye Movement.)

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Answer 2

The brain receives stimuli from many different sources all day
long. There are far too many stimuli for it to process. The mind
prioritizes the stimuli and makes you aware of those that need
immediate attention (the crying baby, the out-of-control car, your
boss' request) so that you may act accordingly. The stimuli that
you are not consciously aware of are nevertheless noted by the
brain, but on a subconscious level (the drip of the bathroom
water faucet, the remark by a coworker at the water cooler while
you were on the telephone.)

Furthermore, you feel emotions all day. Some you acknowledge
and act on (you say thank you and smile when you are
complimented.) Some you repress or do not allow yourself to act
on (you don't punch your boss in the nose when he tells you the
report you worked on for a week is no longer needed.) Traumatic
experiences occur that you face (you call the police) or if it too
painful, you deny them happening and send them deep into your
subconscious (repression.)

In addition to all these emotions and stimuli the brain must
process daily, it also keeps your body functioning; it remembers
names and faces; it allows you to talk and walk and chew gum
(sometimes all at the same time); and performs numerous other
activities that you take for granted.

You must admit -- that's a lot to do. At night, when your body
must rest, the mind continues working. When no longer called
upon to type letters and do the grocery shopping, the brain
concentrates on processing all of those subconscious stimuli
and emotions (while still maintaining body temperature and
breathing, etc.)

This is why we dream. Only you are not awake to receive the
signals at a conscious level -- you can not hear or see or touch
(at a conscious level) while you are sleeping. The brain must
resort to other means to get the signals through to your
conscious mind. This is why we dream the way we do. The
mind uses everything at its disposal (which is everything its
ever been exposed to) to get the message across (green teddy
bears, Uncle George and your grade school classroom, for
instance.) Simply put, dreaming is the minds way of processing
all of the stimuli and emotions it has received during the day or
repressed over time, so that you may act on them.

All in all, it's a pretty neat system. But unless you are
remembering and making sense of your dreams, you are missing
out on countless opportunities to learn about yourself and
experience life to its fullest.

Answer 3

I wake up laughing sometimes...dreams happen during REM, random eye movement, and are a way your brain sors out all the information it has recieved in a day. Sometimes, you dream about things that you have not done that day...that is only because your brain is associating what happened during that day with something else that you have seen or done or read about. The brain is very complex. Dreaming is a good sign and for most part means you are getting good sleep.
Just consider yourself luck you dont suffer awakening sleep paralysis (full blown nightmares...where you feel like some dark creature is moving toward your bed but you can tmove, alien abduction claims may also only really be based on this phenomanum, as people feel themselves being tied down and strange creature moving around the bed and they cant move!) Last but not least...have you ever had that feeling you are falling just as you fall off to sleep? If so that is cos your brain is falling asleep before your body...so your body has a reflex reaction as it thinks its falling so you jolt.

Answer 4

The best term I ever heard for dreams was that they are "day residue". They are events that happen sometime in your day (or from your memory) that trigger your mind to remember, imagine and retain the event.

Like, if you watch a scary movie about snakes (they are my worst) and then you have dreams about snakes. Or, you see an old friend from high school and then you have that crazy dream that you are back in school and forgot your homework or something.

Dreams can also be brought on by stressors in your life. Stress does strange things to the mind and body and carrying stress can affect both in dramatic ways.

Your dreams can also be about things you imagine or hope for.

Sometime, when you wake up and remember your dream, try to think if there was something in your day that may have triggered that dream. And more importantly, remember that dreams have an interpretation value. Because you dream of being eaten by an alligator that doesn't mean that you were floating around in the pool on a big alligator that day, it may mean there is something in your life causing you great fear. Dream interpretation can be very interesting and there are many books and sources you can reseach to investigate it.

OK, for what it's worth, that's the best I can give you. Have fun with it and you might learn a little bit about yourself you never knew existed!

Freud is kinda out there, but there are many beliefs and religions that have their own version of dream interpretations. Remember, don't take it too seriously!

Take care.

Answer 5

Dreams are a result of your mind being ungoverned by conscious thought.

It's your "mind" at rest when your brain never sleeps.
You don't have day to day issues that clog your brain up and so thoughts flow freely - they meld and take life just as a conversation does only there are no boundaries or limitations - your brain can ask "what if...?" and it can fantasize about the possibilities without boundaries and wander in different directions.

They come from the same thought processes that you use daily, only there are no commercial breaks, no dead lines, no school bells to separate classes or change them to more important things...

Here's a fun experiment that you can play with.
When you go to bed, as you are trying to drift off to sleep, think about hitting a tennis ball with a racket - or catching one being thrown at you...something that won't hurt...but you have to catch it.

Usually, if you load your mind with an action and don't complete the action....as your body relaxes....it lets that impulse go...and you end up flinching. Thats the muscle responding to what your brain wants it to do...your mind keeps it in check. As your mind begins to relax...your brain lets it go - and you flinch...you might even raise a hand to catch or swat at it.

it may startle you...but it's funny to see how it works.

I hope this helped. I liked your question.

Answer 6

In my experience, creative people remember their dreams more, have more vivid dreams and dream in colour. Recurring dreams are trying to tell us something. Read the dream analysis books or talk to someone in that field. Choose which analysis best fits your situation. I have only seen one person laugh in their sleep and it is wonderful. To get more out of your dreams, record them when you wake up before talking to anyone or going to the bathroom. The details are phenomenal when recorded immediately. I used a journal and told my family so they would not talk to me while I was writing.

Answer 7

Ahh, Dreams.. It is out human way of working out and handling things in our lives while we are asleep. The brain never sleeps. If something is bothering you, excites or even scare you, the subconscious mind takes your sleeping time to visualize something that needs your attention. That is why your dreams are reflections of situations or maybe just thoughts that you need to process. It reflects the mood or thought of that specific incident that was triggered. Dreams are what life is made of.

Answer 8

When we are asleep, we travel between various stages of sleep. One of those stages is REM sleep (Dream sleep). We have several episodes of REM sleep per night.

During sleep, the brain metaphorically 'tidies up' the brain; - it sort of files away all of it's experiences from the sensory stimuli which has imposed itself on our sensory systems and consequently our brains during the day.

When we are in REM sleep we can become semi - conscious and we become aware of this tidying up process. This is when we say we are dreaming. As I say, we experience several of these episodes in one night of sleep.

There is a processing system in our left hemisphere, which likes everything to be logical and to follow a linear pattern, so it takes our semi - concsious experiences in these episodes and tries to make sense out of them. (Sometimes failing utterly)

This is why dreams can seem so disjointed, because the tidying up process that you witness at the various points of REM may contain totally different information. This is why, in your dream you can be driving a car one minute and in another setting doing something else the next minute.

In NREM sleep, which are the deeper stages of sleep, it is still possible to occasionally dream, but as we are not as close to consciousness as we are in REM sleep, we tend not to remember these dreams at all.

It has been proven that REM sleep has a 'psychological repair' function, whereas NREM sleep has a phsyical repair function. Studies of the sleep patterns of people under psychological stress, show that they have more REM sleep, whereas studies of the sleep patterns of people under more physical stress, show they have more NREM sleep.

There are factors which can influence the remembering of dreams and this 'too vivid dream recall' seems to be what you are experiencing. The most common factor influencing this is too much vitamin B6 in your diet. Are you taking any supplements with this vitamin in them?

Hope this helps.

Answer 9

its just ur brain thinking 'unconciously'. dreams can be caused by certain experiences in the past or present and therefore leaves an impression unconciously in ur brain. U may not dream of exactly what u experienced but there would be simlarities. Most people dream everytime they sleep.

Answer 10

Dreams are the result of subconscious thoughts and desires.
Dreams are made out of many small parts of memory and imagination that get combined to form dream imagery.

Answer 11

DREAMS ARE MADE UP OF THREE PARTS

EXTERNAL STIMULI , TEMPERATURE, CLOTHES, HUMIDITY ETC.
INTERNAL STIMULI , STOMACH, HEART LUNGS ECT. AND
MEMORY


Dreams are a mixture of all three and can signify unresolved stresses, general health , and how comfortable you are. future plans /dreams want wishes and so on..

keep a diary of your dreams and as time passes you will make retrospective sense of some but for the most they'll remain a collage of nonsense