When You Go To Sleep You're Brain Should Be Resting- What About When You're Dreaming?

Question

Right, my home-ec teatcher and my class were talking about sleep and when you're sleeping you're brain is resting- but what about when you're dreaming??
When you dream is you're brain STILL resting???

Thanks :)

Answer 1

1)When you're dreaming, it means that your brain is resting. Everyday you dream, but sometimes it's not that you didn't dream, it's that you can't remember

2)Here are some facts about dreams from http://dreammoods.com :

1. One-third of your lives is spent sleeping.

2. In an average lifetime, you would have spent a total of about six years of it dreaming. That is more than 2,100 days spent in a different realm!

3. Dreams have been here as long as mankind. Back in the Roman Era, striking and significant dreams were submitted to the Senate for analysis and interpretation.

4. Everybody dreams. EVERYBODY! Simply because you do not remember your dream does not mean that you do not dream.

5. Dreams are indispensable. A lack of dream activity can mean protein deficiency or a personality disorder.

6. We dream on average of one or two hours every night. And we often even have 4-7 dreams in one night.

7. Blind people do dream. Whether visual images will appear in their dream depends on whether they where blind at birth or became blind later in life. But vision is not the only sense that constitutes a dream. Sounds, tactility, and smell become hypersensitive for the blind and their dreams are based on these senses.

8. Five minutes after the end of the dream, half the content is forgotten. After ten minutes, 90% is lost.

9. The word dream stems from the Middle English word, dreme which means "joy" and "music".

10. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women dream equally about men and women.

11. Studies have shown that our brain waves are more active when we are dreaming than when we are awake.

12. Dreamers who are awakened right after REM sleep, are able to recall their dreams more vividly than those who slept through the night until morning.

13. Physiologically speaking, researchers found that during dreaming REM sleep, males experience erections and females experience increased vaginal blood flow - no matter what the content of the dream. In fact, "wet dreams" may not necessarily coincide with overtly sexual dream content.

14. People who are giving up smoking have longer and more intense dreams.

15. Toddlers do not dream about themselves. They do not appear in their own dreams until the age of 3 or 4.

16. If you are snoring, then you cannot be dreaming.

17. Nightmares are common in children, typically beginning at around age 3 and occurring up to age 7-8.

18. In a poll, 67% of Americans have experienced Deja Vu in their dreams, occurring more often in females than males.

19. Around 3% of adults suffer from sleep apnea. This treatable condition leads to unexplained tiredness and inefficiency

Answer 2

Ahem. The brain never rests, just like your heart. But it does know how to time-slice.

Something has to keep everything going and sleep is just, in my opinion, an opportunity for the brain to shut down some parts for routine maintenance.

Notice how dreams jump in time and space? That's when the brain transfers the dream from one part to another, which doesn't really care what went before - it's just processing what it knows.

The whole brain doesn't sleep at the same time, in my opinion. It just slices the time and lets parts of the brain rest while the others tackle what's what.

Answer 3

The brain in general, and sleep in particular, are still not very well understood by neuroscientists. However, to give a very rough and somewhat oversimplified answer, it is less that your brain is resting while you sleep, and more that it is reorganizing. This is something your brain absolutely has to do, and during some cycles of reorganization, and usually associated with REM(rapid eye movement), the sleeper experiences dreams. it's not clear exactly what dreams are, how they relate to the brain reorganizing, or even whether we are experiencing dreaming while we sleep or we just remember the neural activity as dreams once we've woken up.

Answer 4

Your brain is never at rest...If your brain were to rest then you you would die...no offense...when you go to sleep your body is at rest not your mind...but it does refresh your mind...in the daytime...a person has an overactive mind...and sleep helps refresh the overactive mind but never rests the mind...the mind controls everything in your body...not saying you can control everything such as the bloodflow through your system but your mind controls it...so if your mind is at rest...your life is at rest...why else is it that if someone shoots themselves in the brain they are dead on the spot?...

Answer 5

Yes your subconscious mind where you figure out things is working leaving the rest at rest
so that s how you dream your subconscious mind is conjuring up stories to express your doubts and fears and trying to figure them out

Answer 6

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Answer 7

when your dreaming your brain is processing images and thoughts and what not. its healthy to dream.