why do we dream during sleep?

Answer 1

Your dreams tell you about your present state of awareness, this is why we dream. Dreams come from an inner place we call the subconscious mind and are presented to you in images which, when interpreted in the Universal Language of Mind, become personally relevant to you and your life. The meaning of these nighttime messages can literally change your life.

Answer 2

The conscious brain takes in a bewildering quantity and variety of sensory information each and every day. Add to that the myriad internal intellectual and emotional processes that each of us generates.

Generally, we are not able to dedicate a great deal of "processing time" to making sense of all this data. The subconscious mind must also decide what to keep, what to discard, and where to store all this data.

Imagine that what we do with these memories throughout our waking hours is like throwing a bunch of junk in boxes while we do our spring cleaning. Everything goes in the boxes, whether we plan on keeping it or not.

When you're done with your cleaning, you pull out the boxes and go through the contents. You decide if something might be useful in the future, has sentimental meaning, or is destined for the trash heap.

I believe that this is, by and large, what we are doing when we dream.

I also believe that dreams can be like cinematic psychotherapy sessions. If we pay attention to our dreams, we can learn much about the feelings we suppress or put out of our conscious minds, yet still need to be dealt with.

Perhaps another function of dreams is purely recreational. Sometimes dreams seem to have little psychological significance while being awfully fun.

Answer 3

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. The exception is lucid dreaming, in which a dreamer realizes that they are dreaming, and they are sometimes capable of changing the oneiric reality around him or her and controlling various aspects of the dream, in which the suspension of disbelief is often broken. [What are lucid dreams?] Explanation for lucid dreaming= Dreamers may experience strong emotions while dreaming. Frightening or upsetting dreams are referred to as nightmares. The discipline of dream research is oneirology.

There is no universally agreed-upon biological definition of dreaming. General observation shows that dreams are associated with REM sleep. REM sleep is the state of sleep in which brain activity is most like wakefulness, which is why many researchers believe this is when dreams are strongest, although it could also mean that this is a state from which dreams are most easily remembered.

Based on dreams after trauma and other recent research a view of the nature of dreaming is developed along the following lines. Dreaming makes connections more broadly than waking in the nets of the mind. Dreaming avoids the "central" rapid input-to-output portions of the net and the feed-forward mode of functioning; it makes connections in the further out regions (further from input/output) and in an auto-associative mode. Dreaming produces more generic and less specific imagery. Dreaming cross-connects. The connections are not made in a random fashion; they are guided by the emotion of the dreamer. Dreaming contextualizes a dominant emotion or emotional concern. This is demonstrated most clearly in dreams after trauma as the trauma resolves but can likewise be seen in dreams after stress, in pregnancy, and in other situations where the dominant emotional concern is known. The form that these connections and contextualizations take is explanatory metaphor. The dream, or the striking dream image, explains metaphorically the emotional state of the dreamer. This entire process is probably functional. The dream functions to spread out excitation or reduce "computational energy" and does this by cross-connecting and "weaving-in". This has an immediate function in "calming a storm" or reducing a disturbance, and a longer term function relating to memory -- not so much consolidating memory but rather cross-connecting, weaving in something new, increasing the connections.

Answer 4

To give happiness, opportunity to the unsuccessful, unfortunate. For Eg: Abhishek can live with Ash in real life and for Salman its in his dreams.

Answer 5

hi
dreams are nothing but our innermost deepest needs and fears
so if you crave for chocolate shake that day but cant have it you will dreams of consuming chocolate shake
if you hate or fear you next door neighbour to you heart then you will dream of either fighting with him or quarreling or kicking his a**
so thats the Science behind dreams and nothing else

Answer 6

Because at that time our mind will be free i.e., without necessity to give any commands to our body, and it will be in rest. But at that time our inner mind will work it will show us that whatever in our inner mind. That is known as dream.

Answer 7

if u sleep without any disturbance... that is good sleep u wot get dream....... dream is also depend upn the mood n health condition on which u sleep....... basically brain, health n deep of sleep influences dream............

Answer 8

the things and incidents or something which affected our mind will come as dreams.

Answer 9

because u enter a whole new world, then when u awake u are in reality of this world

Answer 10

I guess the brain never really stops! What an organ! xD