dreaming.. i wonder what it's purpose.. anyone knows??

Question

there're so much question bout the meaning of their dream.

but i have the basic question: what the dreaming purpose to?
any advantage for us..?

Answer 1

Dreams don't have a "purpose," per se. Sleep has a purpose. It allows the brain to slow way down so that the chemical byproducts given off during the chemistry of daily thought - which build up and cause the sensation of mental fatigue - can be cleared out of the glial matter. In the morning, your brain is cleared of that and you feel "refreshed." Dreams are something that happens during that process.

When we sleep, the body and perception systems are shut down, but the brain stem continues to fire and the cortex remains active. The thoughts that have been most active during waking hours—perceptions, experiences, thoughts and feelings, processed consciously or unconsciously—are still “peaked” and they associate with other images already linked in your cortex. In other words, the brain references this content, but not in a rational way, not using input from the external real world as in waking hours.

Dreams seem to have a purpose because they are amazing and interesting and can be revealing. The story connectedness isn’t like everyday experience, but rather a strange flow from one image to the next. Therefore, dreams aren’t magical messages to guide our life, but sequences of associated images taken from everyday experiences - thoughts and feelings that matter a lot to us during our waking life. So it’s a mistake to apply one-size-fits-all symbols, such as Freudian meanings or standard “dreammoods” formulas. All you need to do is think about what kind of imagery it is and how it relates to your daily life.

Answer 2

Dreams exist as a mental image sort-and-dump session your brain engages in while asleep. In other words, dreams are the workday equivalent of the janitors who come in when everyone else has gone home for the day, cleaning out the wastebaskets, vacuuming the floors, and otherwise preparing the environment for the next 'waking' session.

Thus, this is why, when you subconsciously have unresolved paperwork left out everywhere, your 'dreams' sort through it, trying to find someplace to file the information so that they can get done with their cleaning. It's kinda difficult to do a good dusting with pictures of Kirsten Dunst strewn all over the place. What do you do with all those pictures? Where do they go? Which 'worker' is spending their time downloading pictures of Kirsten Dunst instead of data entry or whatnot?

Now, if your 'dreams' spend the entire night filing and sorting images of Kirsten Dunst, that means that tomorrow, they have to come back and go onto some other area of the office, maybe this time the cafeteria, and unclog the sink because someone stuffed 'images' of rotten meat in the sink, trying to get rid of them, and all the pipes are clogged now.

As to their value, imagine 'waking' up/walking in while someone's trying to vacuum up some stray pigeon poop. They didn't get to finish the job, and now you are bummed out because you spend the rest of the day trying not to step in that section of the carpet. Unfinished dreams/nightmares interrupt the natural cleansing process that dreams instill.

When you are done 'cleaning' something, don't you feel somewhat 'refreshed', even if you are tired? A good night's sleep/dreaming performs the same function, only on a deeper level, because the cleaning was much more thorough. Interrupting the dreaming process produces a similar feeling as interrupting a cleaning process: you feel tired in anticipation of the work that still needs to be done, rather than a sense of rest because of the work that has been accomplished.

Even if you may not understand what the dreams mean when you wake up, giving over enough time to let them do their work usually furnishes you with enough information that, when you are awake, you can begin to seek what it means. That flying orange merengue pie may make no sense now, but remembering you watched an episode of Three Stooges yesterday during the course of the day can suddenly help you understand why your dreams might have been throwing it around.

Dreams may be janitors, but people certainly miss them if they don't show up and do their thing.

Answer 3

dreams might not have any purpose in psychological terms but it has relevence to past incidents of life. here in india it is sometimes interpreed of something good or bad to happen.if u dream in the early hours of morning before getting up the dream is supposed to come true. that is how u can caution yourself or otherwise.thats the use

Answer 4

in a dream analysis seminar i attended, the speaker said that dreams are dreamt because you need help, or something like that. some problems that get integrated into your subconcious need to be remedied, and dreams tell you solutions that you might not have thought about. dreams are messages your subconcious wants to tell you (conscious) but can't, 'coz they're sort of different in essence.

some dreams are dreamt because that's either what you want, or what you fear or hate.

daydreaming is another thing.

Answer 5

Dreaming is a mental release. Often we play out our fears, concerns,wishes and goals in our dreams. It acts as a release valve for our subconsciousness. People who do not sleep well and do not acheive REM sleep(where we dream) are often subject to psychotic breakdowns of different sorts

Answer 6

I think that dreaming reveals our inner selves.

Answer 7

people tend to get bored easily. dreaming keeps your mind occupied with images while your body rests. i think its to keep your thoughts from getting bored so you can fall asleep.