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

After looking at your pictures, I'm dreaming about you right now. . . .

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

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 4

Every person on earth dreams every night – every mammal in fact. It follows then that something extremely important must be going on while we sleep and dream, yet in the industrialized world, the majority of people pay little attention to dreams, and sometimes shortchange themselves on sleep because it is perceived as lost time, or at best unproductive.


there is lots of info on these web pages and some good forums too, hope this helps

http://www.dreammoods.com/

http://www.dreemmoods.com/cgi-bin/dreamforum/YaBB.pl

http://www.dreams.ca/

http://www.asdreams.org/subidxeduq_and_a.htm

Answer 5

Humans exist both in the conscious and subconscious realms. Our ultimate behaviour is controlled by the information stored more in the sub than in the conscious realm. The sub information may not always be apparent to us. Now when we dream, it is our sub that provides all the ingredients and info for the dream. So your dreams are a pointer to what is stored in your subconscious.

Answer 6

I actualy find I dream all the time too, I even find that if I close my eyes for a few minutes or catnap I can have the most amazing dream. As I enjoy my dreams I sought a way to make them even more better and to remember them more, the answer to this is cheese. I find that if you eat a small lump of cheese just before you sleep you have amazine dreams.

Answer 7

We dream constantly when we reach the stage of REM (Rapid eye movement) in our sleep. To dream is our brains ability to sort out the things and events that happened to us while we're awake. Our brain is the body's "computer" trying to arrange the different data into maps and files so that someday we could open it up and edit.

Answer 8

I dream like that too. I also dream in full color, some sound and also a strong E.S.P connection with people in my dreams. Sometimes we dont talk, but we communicate with our minds??? Go and buy yourself a Dreams dictionary or a Definition of dreams book. Dreams are about your past present and future. Remember them as much as you can. You are sleeping, so it is like your body is on "stand-by".

Answer 9

Dreams are said to be what the brain does when its working out issues in your sub - conscious mind that you dont think of when you are awake. Day dreaming is just a sign you bored

Answer 10

dreaming is your brains way of making sense out of everything you have seen smelt touched heard or thought about through the day. a dream is the subconscious process working this out

Answer 11

I always wonder what my dreams mean. If you go to www.dreammoods.com, it will tell you what all of those things mean. Like in my dream, when I'm running from someone, it means I may be trying to avoid something in my current life situation that I really don't want to deal with.