Why do you dream?

Answer 1

You dream because dreams are from your subconscious mind. They are triggered by daily experience, media effect, and actual events. Dreams reflect your inner personalities, fear, desire.

Dreams are brain activities at night. It is our brain function at night and because we have thoughts, we have feeling and personalities and that is why we dream

Answer 2

The reason for why you dream is simple. There are basically three separate stages of consciousness. The first of these of course is normal consciousness where you are completely awake. Another being the subconscious where your mind is mostly awake and generally in a stage of R.E.M.(Rapid Eye Movement). During this stage you dream to smoothen the transition into a deep sleep resulting in the third stage of unconsciousness. Your dreams are a direct result of your subconscious mind and may or may not reflect your every day life but do however tend to reflect how you really feel or think. Of course when you are unconscious you tend not to respond to any outward stimuli other than movement though generally much movement is required to stimulate a person enough as to wake them.

When a person is in dream state they can often speak and will also often answer any question asked of them. Hence why in hypnotism they hypnotist reduces your mind into the subconscious state.

I realize that I may have gone a bit more in depth then what you were looking for but I was just not happy with the other answers i read so I decided to be a bit more detailed.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

Quoting wikipedia here:

A dream is the experience of envisioned images, sounds, or other sensations during sleep. The events of dreams are often impossible or unlikely to occur in physical reality, and are usually outside the control of the dreamer, (except in the case of lucid dreaming, in which the suspension of disbelief is broken and the dreamer realizes that he or she is dreaming—being sometimes even capable of changing the oneiric reality around him or her and controlling various aspects of the dream). Dreamers may experience strong emotions while dreaming. Frightening or upsetting dreams are referred to as nightmares. Episodic evidence also exists for precognitive dreams. The scientific discipline of dream research is oneirology.

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Answer 4

This is a very complex question. I will attempt to answer it with a very simple statement. Just as the conscious "you" requires sleep, so does the "sub-conscious you". Your sub-conscious mind works a 24/7 lifetime regimen, with it's only break being the moments of your dreams.
This answers your question, as to the "WHY" we dream. To want to know the meaning, stimuli, or perception of dreams, that would be other questions and quite possibly a study of a lifetime.

Answer 5

I think I read tossing and turning when you sleep make you dream in color!!

I think you dream what your busy mind is on when you go to bed- and events of the day--tomorrow's happenings...
Haven't you ever dreamed you have already been up and been through the day? And when the alarm goes off, you're EXHAUSTED?

Answer 6

We dream without thinking about it...they just show up.
the mind is clear of the day and are allowed to interpreter what you want in you life as YOU would want them.
it is a gate way to the sub-conscience, a powerful tool to YOUR future.

Answer 7

You dream to keep from getting bored while you're sleeping.

Answer 8

dreams are an escape from reality.

Answer 9

That iz what I wanna know

Answer 10

your mind has to do something while your sleeping.