During REM sleep, the dreamer tends to uncritically accept the chaotic, even bizarre details of dreams. Why?

Question

During REM sleep, the dreamer tends to uncritically accept the chaotic, even bizarre details of dreams. In terms of brain functioning, what seems to account for this?



A) The frontal lobes are essentially shut down during REM sleep.

B) Only the regions at the base of the brain are operational during REM sleep.

C) The hippocampus and amygdala quit functioning during REM sleep.

D) Dreaming activates the brain's right hemisphere but not the left hemisphere, which is almost completely inactive.

Need help bad on this one, thanks!

Answer 1

Actual brain function I couldn't tell you.
Dreams are more of the brain's rehashing of the information it has been given. We use all five senses to put together clues to identify a physical reality. If it looks like a fish, it smells like a fish, tastes like a fish, it must be a fish.
However, one sense alone without the clues given by the others is a piece of information stored in the brain, often not connected to something specific. Your eyes see all kinds of images, many of them unattached to a specific event or occurrence, like flipping through a fashion mag and seeing all of the weird images that make no sense. With no specific event attached to the vision of the pictures, they get stored in the subconcious. Because we accept these images and move on without attaching something of importance to it, the brain uses these images and rehashes them in dreams. So we accept seeing a naked woman walking down the street in a dream because we saw the image somewhere already - in a magazine ad, in a commercial on tv, etc.
We also hear sounds all the time, and not all of them connected to a known object. We also feel stress at sometimes normal situations without a specfic attachment to the stressor, and the brain uses these emotions and stored images as a library catalog for scenes, settings, and situations for the metaphors in dreams.
We all have feelings of helplessness, especially when watching the late-night news! We all feel scared when watching scary movies, we all experience frustration at things we cannot control. Dreams place us in situations and scenarios that are physically impossible but plausible because of emotions we have previously experienced and visual images we have already seen are being replayed by our own brains, so we accept them without question because in the end it is all in our own heads.

Answer 2

Naturally we want to understand everything, but most of the good questions about life are intricate and dynamic beyond words. One problem with labels is that we become secure in their supposed meaning, and we sort of shut down avenues to a wider understanding.

What I'm trying to say is I think dreams are a highly spiritual event. Awareness is not confined to the brain. Awareness is indeed hosted by the brain, and the brain helps to organize awareness, but ultimately awareness is something that can and does exists without a brain to sustain it.

I think dreams are the closest thing we have to show us what life without a body is like, dreams seem to be a window into the spiritual realm, where we learn details about our beings which would otherwise go unrealized.

Peace

Answer 3

You aren't awake and conscious, so you can't use your conscious personality to "edit" and weed out things that are insonsistent with the world of waking reality. If you watch a cat metamorphisize into a flower while you're awake, you'd surely try to disbelieve or rationalize the event. If neither worked to your satisfaction, you would consciously ask yourself if you were dreaming.

Answer 4

probably has something to do with the senses. i don't know much about the brain, but it's my best guess. in your sleep, you don't use your eyes, ears, nose, etc. but the dream, with its own sights and sounds, would probably do a good job cconfusing you into thinking everything in it is real. your real sense aren't in use at the moment to tell you that it's not.

you seem to know alot more about this than i do, like a college student maybe? so i leave this in your hands to expand upon, if there's any credibilty to it.

hope i could help

Answer 5

When you write an essay, you catch many of the errors in your spelling/grammar so quickly that you can backspace and fix it before going on. If you don't catch an error there, though, you probably won't catch it at all. It's the same with dreams. You don't see the incongruencies because you made them yourself.

Answer 6

,dunno?