2007-02-23 11:04:03 · 3 answers · asked by maria 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Your brain defragging....
2007-02-23 11:07:36 · answer #1 · answered by waynebudd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We often dream when we're awake, too. (And the source of our waketime thinking is just as unknown and mysterious, as our nightly dreamlife. Think about that.)
But seriously, the de-fragging, memory clearing and re-organization theory IS popular with today's brain scientists. But that doesn't explain all of the varied content of dreams. We also dream to have fun, to work out emotional pains and strains, or to gain some insight into our conscious life problems, among other reasons. Some of our dreams seem to be built out of elements from our daily life and memory; but many other dreams are so strange, that they could not have come from our day-to-day regular life experiences. Some dreams are happy, some very sad. Some seem to teach us lessons. Some are full of trivia, but some are rich with amazing and unique artificial experiences, which our "real" life could never give us.
2007-02-23 19:18:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dreaming is probably a way of getting junk out our brains. Kind of a human defrag and disk cleanup.
2007-02-23 19:07:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋