2006-12-25 00:56:50 · 23 answers · asked by Daybreaker 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
According to Cognitive Psychology, we "dream" as our brain sorts out and moves the daily events into our permanent memory. All brains are organized into regions by sense (hearing, touch, visual) and memory is organized in relation to these senses (remember what your first girlfriend smelled like?). Although still a theory, they have hooked up people to machines to monitor patterns in the brain as people sleep and it appears that this "sorting" occurs during REM sleep, which is the same time in which dreams occur.
2006-12-25 00:59:49 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like defragmenting your computer. It's the brain's way of sorting through files, cleaning up (emotional issues etc) reliving memories, dealing with things and recharging to face the next day. We need to sleep & we need to dream to keep our waking minds fresh.
2006-12-25 13:03:57 · answer #2 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We dream because our mind mixes up the things that happend that day in our head and we dream it.
2006-12-25 09:41:47 · answer #3 · answered by Daniella 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we dream because in our dreams all our wishes come true and as human beings we all need to feel comleted even if it is just in our dreams..just for a few seconds as long as a dream lasts**
2006-12-25 10:09:26 · answer #4 · answered by elen_yoko 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you sleep your mind shuffles your memory to make them more efficient, much like defragmenting a computer harddisk. When it does that your mind mixes images around, so you dream. Memories can be both facts as well as your past imaginations so dreams often don't make sense.
2006-12-25 08:59:21 · answer #5 · answered by DeadmanWalks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we dream because it's the only way to live things we want we are afraid of we have lived ... but in general are in our mind ....
2006-12-25 10:00:25 · answer #6 · answered by artis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we sleep.
Well, if you are talking about the dreams while awake, then it is because we want to excel and have hope and confidence in future.
2006-12-25 09:58:03 · answer #7 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to convert those dreams into actions
2006-12-25 10:45:14 · answer #8 · answered by sushobhan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to release stress in our inner body and imagine the future and past where our happy places inside really are for, which is to have a kind and gentle sleep.
2006-12-26 20:09:54 · answer #9 · answered by lucky charm 127 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is just a breakdown of all the daily things that happen to you in daily live and your innermost desires . just another way for your brain to deal with all the things
2006-12-25 08:59:43 · answer #10 · answered by silverearth1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋