I can't remeber the last time I had a dream but this week everytime i go to sleep or even take a cat nap I have one and I can remember everyone one of them and there not bad ones and in one there was bright colors very bright what is going on?
2007-08-30 21:25:06 · 7 answers · asked by melissa s 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
This may not sound very interesting, and the reason we experience "REM" sleep (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, is for our brains to perform mental housekeeping. In essence, we are reorganizing our memories.
As we go through our cycles of sleep each night, we will generally go through all five stages 4 or 5 times in an 8-hour sleep period. This includes the REM period.
Stages 1-4 are progressivley deeper levels which give our physical body (cells) rest and rejuvination. At the termination of stage 4, we enter a period of REM, which is actually almost awake. An EEG of an awake, alert person, and their EEG taken during REM will appear almost the same.
It is thought that during this stage of sleep consciousness our brain reviews, and organizes our memories of the day. This causes older memories to also be "activated" as they are rearranged within the engrams of our memory.
As we are almost awake in REM these activated thoughts are mentally expereinced. As our active mind does not like gaps or missing pieces in a memory chain, we basically make up the missing pieces for that period and this is what we expereince as a "dream".
This is often why dreams can seem "weird" or nonsensical or surreal. It is a memory of your aunt Betty combined with the pastrami sandwich you had for lunch combined with your thoughts at work, etc.
This does not mean that dreams do not have meaning. They have whatever meaning you choose to give them. Dreams are made of your memories. Sometimes, the negative ones get mixed in -- we expereince a "bad" dream.
Also everyone expereinces REM sleep, however not everyone recalls the activity expereinced upon waking.
All of this understanding about dreams comes from the past 20 years of sleep research.
Hope this helps
2007-08-30 22:04:29 · answer #1 · answered by LV-Therapist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wish I knew because I dreamed I heard my phone ringing and thats why I'm on here at this time of the very early morning!!!!!!!!
2007-08-30 21:29:48 · answer #2 · answered by shirley e 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dreams were the summation of our moments on awake or even fantasies.we dream because these unconsious one enter when we dream...dreams are the problem we want to answer that undergo on displacement or symbolization in dreaming
2007-08-30 21:38:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
atleast to fullfill our dreams in the dreams
2007-08-30 23:10:28 · answer #4 · answered by Rama Krishna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's because we need to be aware of our imagination.
2007-08-30 21:32:39 · answer #5 · answered by sharon b 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sure its nothing bad...
maybe an advantage in life...
dun worry..
ure life not writin...
enjoy...
2007-08-30 21:33:56 · answer #6 · answered by askfahmy_93 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know.... sorry
2007-08-30 22:33:22 · answer #7 · answered by Viktor 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋