So do you think that memory is the ground for dreaming?

Answer 1

Yes, to certain extent it is, but I would urge caution, because the very word 'memory' implies that there is unidirectional flow of 'time', which is, unfortunately for the irrevocably linear, not the case.

When we are manifested here, in this dense, heavy realm we have a brain, a physical organ, and we have a mind which is the combination of the physical cells, and the energetic data processor that exists all around us, and extends way 'beyond' our physical being. In the brain/mind interface 'zone' there are a gazillion times more 'memories' than exists within the human brain alone, and these are 'past', 'present' and 'future'.

Yes, we have 'memories' of that which has 'happened', but not just here in this 'life', but of countless other lives. We have 'memories' of other manifestations in other realms that are taking place at the same 'moment' as we are experiencing these waking, conscious moments here, and we have 'memories' of everything that ever will occur in any manifestation, on any plane, and in any 'moment'.

This thing we call 'Life' is a many-splendered thing, and it is quite a job to keep everything in 'perspective', so we allow, as one answerer rightly said, our minds to take a kind of 'vacation' ( what a good word, as in vacate ) from the ties that bind us here, and explore all those other realms of potentiality. This is done for all sorts of reasons, sometimes to resolve difficult problems, sometimes to review our 'progress', and sometimes just for the sheer 'hell' ( good sense ) of it !

That's exactly why no one definition of what 'dreaming' really is will ever suffice, it is all things. Remember that the Australian Native people have always believed that it is waking consciousness that is the 'Dream', and that 'DreamTime' is the real 'Reality'. :-)))

{{{{{{{Cosmic Dreams}}}}}}}

Answer 2

Absolutely!:) A very interesting question!:)

Yes, from our memories we dream, it may be the past, or the memorable memories, we dream. Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. So, it's the ground for dreaming.“The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.”
We dream because of Memories...:)

Have a great day ! :-)

Answer 3

And now for something completely different. No.

No, I don't think so.

Because even though your subconscious pulls in things from your memory, and makes you think that's what it's all about, there are points in your dream where you can see past it. See into what created it. It's in your mind, but not a memory. A heavy blackness that your mind fears, and so creates something, anything, to block it out. That's the ground for dreaming. Fear.

There are also the dreams where you see things you've never seen before. Where you go someplace you've never seen before. See something that hasn't happened yet. That's not memory. It can't be, you've never come across it before. What is it then? Is it someone else's memory? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe you're looking at the future, one facet of it. Or maybe the blackness is closing around your mind, and it reaches out, out, out! to grasp at anything it can. And it grasps the future. And the blackness is held at bay.

Answer 4

interesting, indeed interesting.
memory is not only ground for dreaming, it is the real basis of dreamng. How?

actually what are dreams? i am not going to Freud, but dreams are the enactment from memory. In fact one can nt EXPLORE a dream object, since there shall be NOTHING NEW in a dream object.

John Locke, the british empiricist Philosopher speaks of mind at birth being tabula rosa, an emply slate, in which experience writes. For him a single impression gives rise to single idea. when asked about the idea of golden mountain, he says that the miind is the villian, which synthesises the separate ideas of gold and mountain into one.

similarly, in dream too, mind syntheises different perceptions and creates some things which looks like new. Actually they are nnot.

they all are from memory.

Answer 5

Yes, definately.
I think that whatever we remember from our past, as well as what we remember feeling, is what will show up in our dreams, though often in subtle ways.
For instance, I was badly abused as a child. Now, I dream of being lost. Im searching for something but cant find it. And then, someone is after me, but they have no face. I often die in my dreams, and when I wake up...its like I feel the pain in my body that I felt years ago when my father got angry.
I think it's the major memories that found our dreams though...the little ones dont seem to have as much effect.

Answer 6

Sometimes when something during the Day, impact us, or makes a great impact on us, we most always make us Dream it but in a Different setting, it has happened to me, and when I wake up in the Morning I am perplexed as to why I carried that impression into my sleep. I do think that Memory, plays a big part, in our Dreams.

Answer 7

Yes Yes Yes...There are many ways dream can occur. The most and common way is while u r asleep, ur brain is trying to translate the incoming signal by comparing the information it receive from the incoming signal to the memory cells that stored in ur brain and created the image in ur head until it makes sense. For example while u are sleeping, and someone came knocking on the door. The sound of the knocking door goes thru ur ears and intercepted by ur brain and the brain inturn trying to figure it out what it is so it can notify ur concious mind. Because the incoming signal only comes in thru ur ears not ur vision so ur brain only have one source of information to work with. It then scan thru ur memory cells to find a match. First it might come up with the sound of a drum beat and put that image in ur head...repetition after repetition it finally matches the incoming signal and that when u awake and answer the door. There's more to it...

Answer 8

Excellent question! The mind is a mysterious organ, isn't it?! I wonder if man will ever really understand all of its workings & functions?! But I do think our memory has much to do with dreams & perhaps it is the major source from which all dreams come. Good thought to ponder...

Answer 9

Definitely.
All dreams start from memories... a memory of a past event.. a memory of a story read or film reviewed... a memory of a thought processed... all these memories of conscious events.. distorted by an uncontrolled subconscious imagination.

Our minds are powerful enough to try to protect us from very painful memories... for example, the reality of abhorrent events is distorted, the "first person" memories might be distorted.... as though one is an observer.

Answer 10

Yes. And since the dreams are part of your memories, when you wake up, you have trouble remembering because you have a hard time separating reality and dream.