why do we dream?

Answer 1

Despite recent advances in the understanding of sleep, dreams continue to bewitch us with their unfathomed mysteries. Dreaming occurs during paradoxical sleep, a stage in which people's eyes move rapidly under the eyelids, and is therefore also known as rapid eye movement sleep. As we know from our own dreams, what we dream reflects our waking life experiences, which are mostly visual in nature. Many different theories, nothing for sure.
According to the Freudian school, dreams are the result of
subconscious thoughts and desires. The other extreme attributes dreams
to random "noise" in the neurons without special meaning.

My own understanding is that dreams are made out of many small parts
of memory and imagination that get combined to form dream imagery.
This is a process that runs both consciously and
subconsciously. I don't know and leave to speculation the reason why this is so.Dreams are so compelling, and they often seem so weird and strange -- surely they must have a "purpose"; that is, an "adaptive role" in the maintenance of our bodily or psychological health. Furthermore, all the famous theorists who talk about dreams claim that dreams do have one or another purpose (although the famous theorists disagree on just what those functions are), but the best current evidence suggests otherwise. Dreams probably have no purpose!

Answer 2

Dreaming happens during REM (rapid eye movement phase of sleep). Scientists have measured the brainwaves during this period of sleep, and surprisingly, the brain is almost as active as when you're awake. Nobody knows for sure why we dream, but one school of thought that makes sense to me is that our brain is organizing our memories.

Since I'm an organized, methodical person, I really like this explanation. Just think of it as your brain doing the necessary daily housekeeping, sort of like putting the clean dishes back into their spaces in the cupboard.

Recently I woke up in the morning about an hour before my alarm went off, and went back to sleep. When I awoke again, I realized I had been just having very vivid dreams. And I was dreaming about.....no don't worry I couldn't remember if I tried.

Answer 3

Imagine your computer was alive.
You leave it on overnight, and it gets bored.
It starts replaying random pieces of all the programs it ran that day, what you did with it, etc.
Now, then, you have to imagine it has feelings, too, and all of that jazz...
oh, this is a complicated metaphor.
But anyway, the wires are still firing, even in sleep.
Kind of like when you completely close your eyes and you still see little lights?
That's because the cells in your eye, any nerve cells, really, get little electro-chemical impulses at random, even when totally not in use.
Well, I'm guessing, but I think dreams are like that.
Our brains are still firing off, even when not needed!
So, they kind of sort of make a little sense out of the random things that go on in our waking hours, but not enough sense to be cohesive or clear.
Kind of creative, though!

Answer 4

i'll leave the technical mumbo jumbo to someone else and just say that our subconscious mind uses dreams to tell us all sorts of things. dreams of flying are rewards to ourselves.(unless you're afraid of flying of course) dreams tell us where we left things we lost, and when we're being cheated on, and when we need to punish ourselves. get the idea? sometimes it's more complicated than that, but mostly it's straight forward.

Answer 5

our brain can`t stop like heart ears all working even we are sleeping so our mind work like dream something we want can`t tell or afraid of or hope to happen all translate like we living it

Answer 6

To make up for our boring real lives.
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Answer 7

it's connecting the loose ends