#ExplainThis: How do dreams work?

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The Yamster has dreams too! Question about dreams and certain things in dreams get asked all the time on Answers. We don’t really know what dreams mean, so we’ll ask you, the experts!

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Answer 1

How Dreams Work

Answer 2

How Do Dreams Work

Answer 3

When we close our eyes and drift off to sleep, something in our mind spins us fanciful tales of teeth falling out, bouncing around in giant marshmallows in the sky, failing midterms in classes we've never taken, taking a walk in the park down the street that's also a spaceship. Common as they are, there's not a lot of definitive science on how we dream.

Are dreams the work of the imagination, or the work of some reflex in the brain? A team of French researchers suggest at its most basic, dreaming is generated by the brainstem, the part of the brain that connects to the spinal cord and plays a role in regulating sleep--a "bottom-up" process rather than a result of the brain's higher functions.

The study looked at patients with auto-activation deficit, a syndrome characterized by extreme apathy. People with auto-activation deficit lose the ability to spontaneously activate any cognitive or emotional processes. They report that they don't have any thoughts at all, called "mental emptiness." They often sit quietly in the same place all day without speaking or moving. If someone prompts them, they can answer questions and recall memories, but left to their own devices, their minds remain blank. So if these patients don't have spontaneous thoughts, do they dream?

The 13 auto-activation deficit subjects and 13 healthy control subjects were asked to keep a dream diary, which the researchers then "analyzed for length, complexity and bizarreness." Not all the auto-activation deficit patients reported dreaming, but some did. Those who reported dreaming (only four out of the 13) had shorter, less bizarre dreams than the control group's, dream about normal scenarios like walking or shaving, according to the LA Times. Not sitting on a park bench watching a lady's hat turn into a wolf.

That patients who don't have spontaneous thoughts during the day can do so when asleep suggests that dreaming might be a bottom-down process, essentially a reflex. But the simplicity and lack of emotional resonance of their dreams suggest that higher-order processes are required to create the strange scenarios most people find in their dreams.

Answer 4

A dream is just your brain playing. It never stops working, just they way your heart is operating continually. If either one stopped functioning, you'd be dead, unfortunately. Dreams are just a way for your brain to entertain itself while it's not getting much sensory input. You're asleep, after all - or should be. That's why dreams can get so bizarre - your brain is craving input to process, and it's not getting it while you're sprawled out on your bed. Your brain needs stimulation, so it pulls stuff from your experiences to make up for the shortfall in new input.



I'm not saying that dreams can't mean something, but to think that ALL of them are significant in some way isn't very realistic.

Answer 5

One of the reasons that dreams are so confusing is that just as in our waking state they can manifest themselves on different levels. During the day we can react to things emotionally, with logic and thought, with dynamic action, and just sometimes with an almost intuitive or psychic presence.



On on level falling can mean one thing and on another perhaps little or nothing at all.



Some people are able to be conscious during their dreaming. In such a dream we might have abilities that we do not possess in a waking state. There are many other questions that could be asked. Like why we dream? or Why some people don't remember their dreams. Sweet Dreams.

Answer 6

I've always been fascinated by the dreaming mind, perhaps because I seem to have such vivid dreams, and because I remember the majority of mine for at least a short time after awakening.



I've done a good bit of reading on the subject. I'm by no means an expert, certainly. From what I've read and the lectures I've heard from reputable researchers, we're starting to understand that we have at least two different kinds of dreams.



One type is "housekeeping" dreams - when our sleeping brains are busy cataloging the events of the day. This is when REM ("rapid eye movement") sleep occurs. It's easy to tell when someone is in this state, because the movement of their eyes is easily visible to an observer.



The other kind (that we know of) occurs during deep sleep, and recent research suggests that these dreams are times when our brains are trying out various strategies for coping with whatever's bugging us at the moment. This is the sleep where the large muscles of the body are paralyzed so that we don't act out our "test runs" and injure ourselves (trying to run or jump when you're on your side fast asleep doesn't work well, after all). We may try to figure out logical solutions to problems, or we may simply be in "fight or flight" mode in our dreams - it all depends on the problems and situations with which we've been confronted. This is the kind of sleep where people will work out math problems, or chess games, or computer programs, or any number of other possibilities. The cycles take about 90 minutes, and there are several such cycles over the course of a night for most people.



There may be more to dreaming than we yet know, of course, but there's a lot of on-going research out there. It's an interesting subject to study, at the very least.

Answer 7

My mother claims that I decided to be a lawyer when I was in second grade. I don't remember that. I do know that by the time I was in 7th grade, I had decided on being a lawyer. I entered college as a pre-legal, political science major. I got diverted to comparative literature and finally graduated in zoology. After a Master's Degree in Environmental Planning, I finally made it back to law school and became a lawyer in 1989. However, I now work as a planner and practice law on the side. It is not quite the way I had intended it to be. Do I have regrets? Maybe a few, yes. I'm not doing what I would prefer to be doing. So, even though I am approaching Social Security age, I'm still looking to reinvent myself into what I hope will be something more fulfilling.

Answer 8

Long story short,dreams are when your subconscious mind is awakened.There are so many things in your subconscious mind,and this is why some of your dreams basically dont have any meaning.They are literally stupid.Some dreams are a complete opposite,and they have a lot of meaning,and they should be analysed.

Overall,dreams are a reflection of yourself and your thoughts.

I sometimes dream for hours and i remember only a very little part when i wake up,but i know that i dreamed for hours.Its basically like a very long movie which is composed of many parts.I know that many things that i dream of are just a subconscious mind with its random things,and some dreams have some meaning.

Overall,atleast 50% of your dreams are a random stuff,which doesnt have much meaning,and other 50% are some interesting things about yourself and a world around you.

Dreams arent a big mystery for me,because i know that a subconscious mind is a very interesting thing which has a lot of data,which has both meaningless things,and things with a meaning.Combining all that data,dreams are created.

Answer 9

The one comment above has it partly right. Recent research by neuroscientists indicate that dreams are how the brain does housekeeping. Deleting some day-to-day memories and transferring others to long-term storage.

When researchers wake test subjects early in the dream cycle, the dreams are always about events of the day. As the night progresses, and subjects are woken during later cycles, the dreams become more fragmented and bizarre.

We normally only recall dreams from just before we wake, when they are at the most disjointed and strange.

There is nothing mystical in dreams, no hidden meanings.

Answer 10

Sleep is a time for prioritizing the day’s experience, and a dream is an expression of those experiences, by the subconscious of any of a number of ego states. The features of a dream—the things that stand out in recall, are those key expressions for analyzing, interpreting and otherwise understanding the relationship between the dreamer and the subconscious, which is really just another name for intuition. The ego states refer to, or are assigned, to the feeling, mood, and attention of the dreamer.



The collective unconscious is the aggregate of experiences shared by every member of the species and which are sometimes expressed at night in dream sleep. Symbols of self-awareness and hidden meanings—factors which identify the dreamer to the dream, are related to the primal instincts. They express the types of behaviors that have happened the previous day: the hunt, totems, taboos, aggression, and death, included. The dreams we recall are links to the symbolic language, known in psychology as archetypes, an idea that was made more popular with the writings on the unconscious of

C. G. Jung.



Examples are colors, clothes, head wear, and masks. Relatives and loved ones take a first look when they appear in dreams. We almost always remember those faces and relationships, significant items or tools, events, and in particular the success or failure of an achievement extended from real life to the dream, or simply assumed and subsumed by the dreamer’s ego state.

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Our dreams combine verbal, visual and emotional stimuli into a sometimes broken, nonsensical but often entertaining story line. We can sometimes even solve problems in our sleep. Or can we? Many experts disagree on exactly what the purpose of our dreams might be. Are they strictly random brain impulses, or are our brains actually working through issues from our daily life while we sleep -- as a sort of coping mechanism? Should we even bother to interpret our dreams? Many say yes, that we have a great deal to learn from our dreams.



In this article, we'll talk about the major dream theories, from Freud's view to the hypotheses that claim we can control our dreams. We'll find out what scientists say is happening in our brains when we dream and why we have trouble remembering these night-time story lines. We'll talk about how you can try to control your dreams -- both what you're dreaming about and what you do once you're having the dream. We'll also find out what dream experts say particular scenarios signify. Finding yourself at work naked may not mean at all what you think it does!



For centuries, we've tried to figure out just why our brains play these nightly shows for us. Early civilizations thought dream worlds were real, physical worlds that they could enter only from their dream state. Researchers continue to toss around many theories about dreaming. Those theories essentially fall into two categories:

The idea that dreams are only physiological stimulation's

The idea that dreams are psychologically necessary

Answer 12

I have been translating dreams for many, many years. All the answers listed here, are probably correct, from a realistic point of view. In my world, all dreams have meanings and all meanings have reasons and translations.

There are reasons we dream what we dream. Think about it. Anyone ever have a dream come true? I don't mean about finding fortunes or marrying the one. I am talking about a dream that you dreamt, at night and woke up in the morning, or early hours of the morning, wondering why and how you had such a dream. A message has been sent to you.

TRANSLATION:

The dream in question is regarding an upcoming change in the life of the Yamster. Life as he knows it is about to change and change drastically. This could refer to career, health, finances, family situation. (not enough details have been given.) Subconsciously and consciously, the Yamster knows that something is about to change or happen but has made no plans and/or is uncertain of where he is going and what he will do about it and/or when he gets there. I definitely see that he has fears about the future. The Yamster needs to sit and analyze and carefully think about his surroundings and those he is involved with. He is fearful of something that is upcoming. As said in the beginning this could refer to either one or several things: career, health, finances, family situation. (not enough details have been given.) The Yamster should "wake up" and become more realistic about his life. A future path must be cultivated.

Answer 13

At night your brain sorts and files away the previous day's memories making associations and connections much like a computer running a defrag program. Your brain is also using this time to solve problems and unanswered questions.

There is also a type of dream (or vision) which is spiritual and I believe is outside the body and can even be a message given by God. This is a mystery that science has not been unable to explain

Answer 14

There are three types of dreams. (1) Day-dream; (2) Lucid Dream; and (3) Night dream which comes when one is deeply asleep.



The first two dreams can be easily manipulated or maneuvered by any individual with some discrimination power coupled with some ingenuity and his own intellectual brilliance. Its scope, range and quality can be enlarged or widened to suit his taste.



Night dream comes when one is in deep sleep. It comes from nowhere. Its origin is only known to God. Some people with bad-luck get nightmares and lucky-people get good dreams also.



We are what we eat. If one eats too much of junk food, bad drinking habits or smoking habits like weed, LSD, marijuana, etc. he may frequently come across nightmares.

Answer 15

I believe there are different types of dreams.

Disjointed, random thoughts jumbled together.'

Memories of people and places.

Then there are dream visitations.

I have had 4 of these, 3 came to me, the fourth I was back in the town where I used to live w/ my best friend, we worked togerher, we hung out she was a great friend, then she died of MS in 1989l In my dream in February 2015, we were hanging out again in the same place we always did and we were laughing and I felt like I was really there with her I still do. Then the next morning I was sitting with my mom I was telling her about my "dream" and my friend in the dream was standing in front of me wearing a green shirt and telling me "You made it! You made it!" I heard her loud and clear.. She was referring to some trauma/grief/ I had been dealing with.. She was right I DID make it, and I a moving forward now I sold my house I am moving to help my daughter so she can stay in classes and keep her little house for herself. Thank you Terry!! Friends Forever!!

Answer 16

Your brain operates constantly meaning that even when you are asleep there are still working thought processes going though your brain. What sleep is, is our imagination and thinking activity while we are asleep. They can be used to wake us up, explain our current needs (like if you want to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and it's raining in your dream), and some believe even reflect your ongoing real life. But too sum it up shortly, dreams are what our brain occupies us with while we are asleep, while also toying with our imagination. Dreams have also been to show to be able to be somewhat manipulated through the practice of lucid dreaming (sorta like Inception to a certain extent).

Answer 17

Dreams are different for different purposes.



Some dreams are simply our thoughts being played out in our subconscious.

Some dreams are from demons attempting to get us to do their bidding (aka 'nightmares'). Stop messing around with things like Ouija boards and séances and you won't have to deal with demons, folks! Yes, demons are very real.

Some dreams are from God and reveal the will of God for our lives (or others) and, most importantly, some dreams are purely divine where Our Lord Jesus Christ appears to people and reveals Himself to those whom He so desires so they may know who He is. This is happening all around the world these days!

Answer 18

dreams Is nothing ales than brain files all the ayes did see in day time and when you go to deep slip analyze the files and ignore those thinks that are not impudent ,this is the shot explanation.

now the rest is dreams are thinks that we as people thinking of what is a necessity for our life's, business, how to please our wife's or girlfriends if we don something we do very wrong think. so the conches in our brain bring all this back and we enjoy see them agent and some times we are afraid of what we see , most of them we see will be removed from our conches but bad thinks will stay with as for ever ,that is a dream. a file of all we see in day time also what we hear.

Answer 19

Actually, everything in life is a mystery. We humans are designed to put labels on it, to make sense of all this, that we are experiencing right now, so we don't freak out... such as calling what's above us, the sky or space, or blue or black, or stars or calling each other humans, etc. We think we are correct, but what if blue was really called black or rat?



Everything that you are experiencing is EXACTLY like a dream. What if reality was a dream, and a dream was really reality? The only difference between the two is CONSCIOUSNESS AND UNCONSCIOUNESS.



Animals are not aware like we are, so they live reality like living it in their dreams. They don't know the difference between the two. What us human have what other creatures don't have, and that is intelligence/brain. Our brain gives us the ability to be aware of what's really going on. If we didn't have that, we would live without knowing that we are living.



Your answer is that everything is an ILLUSION. Your brain is the only thing that makes the illusion appear real, such as seeing, hearing, thinking, feeling.



if I bopped you in your brain, you will get brain damage, which means that you may go blind, deaf, loose sense of feeling, etc. Now, the only thing left that makes you aware still, is your memories of experiencing life so far. If I tamper with that too, you will loose all sense of Consciousness.



Again, what I am trying to say is that Life and dreams are the same thing. Dreams are just memories from your past, present and future lives. The human brain was created by the universe, star dust. The star dust holds the secrets to the mysteries of life. In order to tap into that knowledge, one must sleep and dream or do psychedelic drugs to explore the mysteries that is locked away in their brains.



You get what I am trying to tell you?



Don't be scared but everything around you is all an illusion, because it's all in your head. It's your brain that is projecting this so called life out through your eyes. That's why, if you go blind, you no longer see life. If you go deaf, you no longer hear life. If you loose sense of physical touch, you won't feel life physically. You see, it's your brain that is playing mind tricks with you. Life is just an illusion, so nobody really exists, but you. You are God playing with your own powers. You are the one who put yourself here into this existence that you are experiencing now.



It's not rocket science. Don't be scared of the truth, embrace it and enjoy it.

Answer 20

A dream works by your brain thinking about something you like for a good dream. Then for night mare you thinks of things that are bad for you and what you are afraid of you.

Answer 21

We dream because our brains never really rest. We are always thinking about something and while we sleep we try to process things that either happened during the day or that we are trying to hide from ourselves in our minds. When we dont deal with things they almost always show themselves in our dreams which is why so many people are into dream interpretation. It helps to figure out whats bothering you if you really havent a clue why you are getting headaches or why you arent sleeping well.

Answer 22

People think too hard.

A dream is a milestone of achievement. I was married, buy a home, worked in an international corporation, and I had two cars that we paid off. So that was the American dream milestone. I lost it all so there is no more dreaming for me. It is all living like Fry from the TV show Futurama now.

So I reached the nuclear age American dream. I reached the little girl that grows up dream and also the hippie gets a yuppie paycheck dream. I also reached the projects man to the bling dream. Oh and the biggest. I achieved a 810 credit score back in 2009 when I lost my job due to a (larceny stunt) So there.

I am just trash now. Assholes. I probably lost it all because my exwife received a picture of some cabby boy that wanted to spread a picture of his penis with an American flag on it. I told her that your friends are just stupid because that is not even funny.



CITIZENS OF AMERICA STOP EXPLAINING YOUR DREAMS BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST SUBJECT TO EXTORTION AND BLACKMAIL FROM FOREIGN INFLUENCES.



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Answer 23

The World of Dreams

During our waking hours, our five senses are constantly conveying information and images to the brain, but during sleep this is not the case. The brain generates images within itself without any external sensory input. Therefore, what we see in dreams and the actions we experience in them are at times like hallucinations. This makes it possible for us to do things that are violations of natural laws, such as flying like Peter Pan or falling from a cliff without injury. Time may be distorted so that the past is seen as if it were the present. Or if we are trying to run away, we do not seem to have control of our movements—our legs do not want to respond. Strong impressions and experiences that we may have during our waking hours can, of course, affect our dreams. Many who have experienced the frightful atrocities of war cannot easily forget them, nor can some forget the feeling of being attacked by a criminal. Such disturbing experiences while we are awake can emerge in our dreams, causing nightmares. Common things that are on our minds when we go to sleep can surface in our dreams.

Sometimes when we are trying to solve a problem, the solution comes to us during sleep. This may reflect that not all sleep consists of dreaming. A portion of it is thinking.

Since it seems that dreams originate principally within the brain, it is not reasonable to think that they have special messages for us. We should view them as a normal function of the brain that helps maintain it in a healthful condition.

Our brain is an amazingly complex part of the body with billions of elements that are generating signals at approximately one hundred to two or three hundred a second. There are more elements in one human brain than there are people on earth. Some researchers estimate that it contains from 20 billion to more than 50 billion elements. Its complexity confirms what the Bible writer David said about the human body: “I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful.”—Psalm 139:14.

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Answer 24

I am no experts, so I am not claiming to know anything for certain on how dreams work. I don't think experts actually have a definite answer to the question, in a professional sense, however, there may be some consensus among them on the subject. Since the age of five I have been capable of knowing when I am dreaming and could control them. I thought everyone dreamed as I did and I wasn't aware that this was called "lucid dreaming" and that only a small portion of the population actually does this until my mid 20s, which would explain the quizzical look on people's faces when I would share my dream experiences. My fascination with dreaming and the process that creates them led me to come to my own conclusions and theories about dreams.



I am not too big on dream interpretation, although, I believe it is possible that there is some validity there, but I am more interested in how and why we dream and why we dream what we do in a general sense. Because I am aware that I am dreaming and my consciousness is just as alert as it is in when I am awake, I have felt I could pick up on all sorts of things going on in my brain and mental state while asleep. I can recognize sequence changes, and stop the projected pattern or path of a sequence and replace it with the scenario or outcome I desire. I also notice how random thoughts and images from my waking state during the day enter into my dreams which I can trace back in my memory of the moment I noticed it when I was awoke.



A read in a book that taught methods that would assist with lucid dreaming, that, something I always naturally done from an early age, greatly contributed to the process, which was noticing random and insignificant things during the day that almost everyone would overlook or neglect, on a daily basis. I would give something like a cord to an electronic device, or how three object near each other made a familiar shape or form, a few moments of attention and ingrain it into my mind so as to not let it become a passing thought or memory in the enormous sea of collective experiences. This can also be done with the total environment around you or circumstance you might find yourself in during a random moment during the day.



I've also used my lucid dreaming to prepare for situations I might find myself in during my waking state, which has come handy a handful of times in my life. This is where I think dreaming has it purpose. I once noticed the movement in the paws of my best friend's dog as he slept, which indicates dreaming about running in dogs. This reminded me of how humans twitch and move in response to a dreams while asleep, which is involuntary. If dogs can dream and react to them as humans do, to some degree, than dreaming must have some primitive function that is likely for the purpose of survival. I have only heard this theory presented once on a TV program about dreams. The subconscious projects past and potential situations, thoughts, memories, feelings, etc., in the dream state, almost like a conditioning or training regiment to keep the mind and brain alert while awake.



It is hard for me to explain (probably harder for others to believe) what I am experiencing as the psyche is in the process of conducting the dream process. There is a vivid recognition of my sense of self interacting with the subconscious in formulating what is mentally observed. The best I can describe it is like a spec of light as my local consciousness in a sphere of existence beyond time and space, where the subconscious is an abstract nonphysical shell that surrounds me. On a regular night I go in and out of this on an average of 2 to 5 times a night. I have to say that my lucid dreaming has greatly developed my imagination and creativity which translates to my artwork and how it manifests. I really feel bad for the masses of people who don't get to experience this. Typically, when asked, most people only recount being aware that they are dreaming once or twice in their lifetime. Many people are unaware and oblivious to the insights on the self and the world you can gain from doing this.

Answer 25

The function of dreams is to "defrag" our minds. Bits and pieces of data get scattered around in our brains just like on a computer harddrive. And we have to defrag both regularly to keep them in optimal working conditions. God does this for us through sleep and dreams. Thats why dreams are so bizarre. They are collages of various memories and feelings that we collect from day to day. When a person is deprived of the ability to dream, he will eventually die, as the brain cannot function normally. Sleep also restores a natural balance of neurotransmitters. .

Answer 26

dreams are the brains way of entertaining itself while at rest in the bodies sleep mode. sounds like a mouthful but not really. being awake all the time the brain has to deal with the stress we put on it in every day occurences. traffic, the boss, the wife or the husband nonetheless. dreaming gives the deepest parts of our untapped brain a chance to sort of take a vacation while at the same time, putting in a little work. backing off of realities the brain has to endure allows it a sort of ''recharge itself ''and preparing the stress it is going to encounter by just having fun and taking alittle break from us. Pleasant nightmares...

Answer 27

I like to think of everything in multi-nature terms. So I believe in a scientific approach, I think dreams are like a rewinding/sorting out the brain does on all the information that has been going through the head throughout the last day, and as well as throughout recent past, a sort of filtering and head-degragmentation process. . . Like I said, I believe in dual-natures, so I also believe on the other side of the coin, is the spiritual answer in that the universe is reaching out to us, giving us guidance through our unconsiousness- the universe is reaching out, our dreams/our fate/our spiritual beings/God are reaching out to us through our dreams- giving us some guidance, and insight into the deeper things going on in this life, in our life, in the universe's interconnected life. I both approaches are true, neither more so than the other, neither less so than the other.

Answer 28

Dreams are simulations to prepare us for real-life situations in a safe and controlled environment.

This is why people dream about their problems. It's their brains trying to teach them how to deal with things that they might not be prepared for if it came out of the blue without beforehand preparation.

Answer 29

Consider this: you're subconscience is exposed to billions of bits throughout the day that you're not aware of....every other organ of your body has a way to eliminate waste...but, not the brain...could it be that dreams are a manner in which your brain sorts out the stuff you don't need and puts it into a story...

Answer 30

dreams are what you think about all day but when the body relaxes in sleep it repeats (like a computer) the things you heard, saw, thought, and things you didn't even notice that were around you all day and meshes them together. Plus you can change your dream around if you like when you're in it.



I saw a woman yesterday at Walmart with a walker and plastic sliders (that looked like skates) on the bottom of the walker poles and thought to myself "isn't that neat" because she moved along so smoothly. So all night I dreamt that I was skating everywhere (on real skates but they had sliders on them) and had a really great time.

Answer 31

I had a counselor once tell me dreams are the playground of your subconscious. During sleep, your logical, conscious mind takes a break but your feelings don't. So they remain active and your mind plays off of them, making stories or events that reflect off how you feel about events happening in your awake life. Also, since it is only your mind at work, all the characters in your dream are only aspects of yourself.

Answer 32

There are two states of dreaming, One is when a person desires to be better or go further with their lives and they set forth gains and goals towards creating a better life or place within it,. The second is merely a uncontrolled state where anything rational with constructive outlining with thought is a mystical realm within a state of unconsciousness,.

Answer 33

Dreams are caused when you are thinking about something in the nighttime. It reflects what you were thinking about. When you become subconscious your mind is really not turned off. It is your fears, your problems, and things you did during the day that get s processed during the night. That causes us to go into a dream.

Answer 34

Dreams were invented in 1532, when Professor Dreamy Guy decided he wanted to make sleep more interesting. He invented a machine called the Dreamy-2000 and uploaded a lot of dreams into it. He used radio waves to transmit them into our brains at night, and this is where we get dreams. The machine is currently in a museum, disguised as a pineapple.

Answer 35

A dream is the language of the opposite sex incorporating a part of your subconscious that transforms reality of photographic memory into an understandable recreation while asleep....It's said that young women have hallucination which is a conscious dreamstate or 7th sense.

Answer 36

I think it's your brain dividing time between settling in what's been on your mind and making it kind of a background, like playing music when you do homework, chores, etc I have heard iit has something to do with your eyes flickering between deep and shallow sleep, but I don't believe that;

Answer 37

Easy You go to sleep and when your asleep your having a flashback or a memory of a dream or something in your life. Day Dreams are mostly when you are having a memory in daytime. Lucid Dream is a memory that is Lucid in three ways! Night Dream is when you are having a deep sleep and your having a memory of some sort. Mine isn't isn't isn't isn't sorted!!@@##$$%%^^&&**(())__++//**--QQWWEERRTTYY

Answer 38

I think dreams are where we can finally seek the truth about ourselves. It still remains a mystery as to how they work, but each action that you have dreamed about translates into its own reality.

Answer 39

I read in a new discovery that even water has memory ,it submit the information that are enter the consciousness of the water, time ,thermal,size,angle ,speed ,chemical structure or any related information of the object or subject.Images that we see during time are transfer in to the elector chemicals that are travel trough to the Sodium and water that are in the Nero system ,Any over doze ,chemicals or dehydration in the cells it can cause corrupting or interfere information during normal call memory and cause hallucination,Hallucination in the sleep mode since body activity it's going to minimum activity it get slow and brain it start to conduct images collected by signals (cybernetics) and realized by memory (Unconsciousness).Symbolizing in dream it been describe by Dr. Sigmon Floyd and Carl gostave as it has one deep submitted information in the person memory as he/she understood in earlier age.Another version of information it does do with information contain in the chromosome of the person ,generic submitted information .which combine of information new and old it can create a none sense dreams in the person ,most of these type of the dream are happened when person it's in very deep mode of the sleep .

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I absolutely must admit, there are some remarkably good and interesting perspectives on this subject posted here. I am one of those people, who cannot seem to fall asleep without frequently experiencing myself dreaming lucidly, and then recalling highly intricate information contained in my dreams upon waking. In my case, I find that my very potent dreams, contrary to many popular beliefs, are primarily in color, quite realistic, and filled with extensive details which usually seem as if I have just viewed a "real life" motion picture. I also feel as if I had been an active participant during my dream experience. Further, contrary to popular beliefs and much research on the topic of dreaming, mine are positively rather lengthy. I am not exactly claiming that I dispute the theory of dreams being actually rather short and concise, as that's probably very true; though, I may awaken distressed and, then again, I fall back into a deep sleep to continue my dream cycle. There are times when some of my dreams are so distressing that I will be prompted to remain awake, once coming out of an especially disturbing dream, and that is likely the worst and most unhealthy form of dreaming, as it's totally disruptive. This, to me, is certainly not regarded as a pleasant experience, and one I can feel a bit tormented by. Candidly, I've felt considerable dread over the occurrence of dreams. The ideal night's sleep, in my opinion, is one filled with very few dreams, or hopefully none at all. Even still, that is not the general rule, as I happen to rarely, yet sometimes, find the content to be really interesting. I definitely sense that my dreams are principally based upon my literal encounters and my memories, whether good or negative. I find that my dreams do indeed tend to drastically interfere with and disrupt the quality of my ability to restfully sleep, and to obtain the necessary rejuvenation process of myself, overall. Besides, upon awaking, I often feel so emotionally and physically exhausted, plus vivid recollections only serve to further drain my intellectual cognition. Since, while awake, I tend to have an incredibly astute memory, I am likely to recall specific details contained in my dreams, too. This horrible feeling of dreading my dreaming had actually been during many of the earlier years of my life, and, in more recent years, I've somehow learned to manage the natural occurrence of dreaming without most previous difficulties. Anyhow, to answer this question with more pertinent facts, dreaming works after sleep has begun, then, after awhile, we reach the rapid eye movement stage of sleep. Dreaming is the brain's way of always remaining somewhat active, even as we sleep, and the vivid form of dreaming is more apt to happen to those with an overly active mind, or with an anxious or depressed mentality, or those either recalling a stressful issue that may have recently occurred, or with any kind of unresolved issues. The dreaming cycle, in fact, could and would not be possible without sleeping sufficiently long enough to reach the stage that is referred to as Rapid Eye Movement(R.E.M.). Moreover, like it or not, dreaming is a natural function and is essential to a living being's overall health. Dreaming is a popular and continuing basis for much research, and new answers to aspects of sleeping and dreaming are discovered all the time. Therefore, I suppose no one's personal views and/or studies on how dreams do work, could be entirely conclusive. I have, however, tried my best to answer this question.

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Heaven knows experiencing Reality sans total consciousness in a most unusual conscious modality. Being aware of surroundings personally at times.

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our minds have to 2 parts that are always in play with each other dreams are the roles unplayed but still in the mind and fill unknown deeds thats why one can go nuts from the lack of dreams the sides of the 2 minds has to be maintaned

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I dream of you getting rid of this annoying Anonymous feature, that allows trolls to attack and insult other users, at will...........



I dream of "Suspended", actually meaning these pests CAN'T come right back 5 minutes later.



How about at least a MONTH suspension? ah well.............I can DREAM, can't I ?

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Our thoughts, individually and en masse create reality. When we dream we also create. If you have ever been able to have a livid dream you can actually catch yourself in this reality you create and it seems as real as this one. It is a great secret to the nature of reality.

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I feel like a dream is just your unconscious mind wants and desires

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I think that we dream because our brains are sort of letting what happened during the day sink in, and so we see it in our heads, kind of like remembering it." Sarah, 8, thinks that: "We have dreams because we think of something in our mind

Answer 47

Dreaming is exactly the same thing as thinking, only when you dream youre sleeping as well

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I believe dreams represent our subconscious mind and make us aware of things we aren't through out the day.

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Dreams are thoughts that occur when the brain is not under conscious control.







Simple, ain't it?

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I think dreams are the brains filing clerks. They put away random bits of data wandering about in the mind.

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Dreams are design to train your mind to react in certain situation.

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Dreams are the bookmarks of our lives. We are interpreting when the minds on sleep...like the computers we created in our likeness. They help aid & guide us, one way ot the other. Sweet dreams ever'one!

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When your Body is at total Rest, and your motor functions remain in order, and continue to relay to your " Brain "; the Synapse to your Neurons continue to occur, and is retained by the Memory Storage Areas that conflict with your Consciousness. 0308/2015

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i have a dream book

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I think meanings are just myths and dreams are just to entertain your mind when asleep.

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My dreams are usually like a vacation. I am as I want to be, I go places I'd like to go, do things I'd never do in real life.

Answer 57

http://www.livescience.com/8373-dream-real-reasons-revealed.html

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The subconscious mind learns by repetition and not by logic. This is why you can convince someone to believe in something by repeating your argument again and again rather than using logic.

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Dream is a thing that caled relax. like ''Robots" , if bettery low they just don't do anything . just shut down . just like that human's go to nothingness . like don't freak to anything, just closs your eyes and don't think anything ; and that's caled sleep .

In the case of dreams, what you think very much in during the morning, that you see in the sleep time .

Answer 60

well you sleep and then you see a dream thats how it works :P

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it is a way the brain works wathever you have seen in ur life u can dream abt it

u dream when ur brain is in a half stage mood not fully asleep not full active

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Dreams are mental housecleaning. No sleep, no dreaming: you go crazy and stupid.

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Dreams are thoughts and ideas from the subconscious. They cannot be interpreted literally.

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I think it is related to the mind, soul. Since no body has access to see human soul, no body defines dream correctly- but i am not professional.

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Dreaming is just the brains way of entertaining itself.

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They don't work. If they did, then I'd be a whole lot wealthier.

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When you sleep, dreams occur.

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Its just like your brain is letting all your emotions into your thoughts

you can go all scintific and phsycological about this but its pretty much as simple as that

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They work the way they work

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You set the goals that you want to accomplish, and you keep going after them until you are capable of accomplishing them.

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Dreams are no more than unconscious thinking.

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dreams are the subconscious telling use something for one reason or another.

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Go ask Alice

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Like this

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Preparation for life's fears and filtering the memories we gain.

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Submit yourself to Almighty Allah (God) from the depth of your heart and your dreams will be controlled too.

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dreams are actually very important. they help you organize your thoughts (I don't understand that)

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You close your eyes and then you see

all people are the same color!

of course if you can't kill the dream

then kill the dreamer..............

Answer 79

dreams give you warnings/insights about your life.....keep a dream diary....

Answer 80

they work when you act on them

Answer 81

No one really knows that much about them yet.

Answer 82

...dreams are the minds "playground"...and then there are "wet" dreams; when it gets really fun !

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Its your brain telling stories to your eyes, :) remember, when you open your friends eyelids while they're asleep, their eyes are looking up, (remember?) they're looking at the brain that's still feeding it bullsh****...

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http://steam-wallet.com/index.php?id=1341971

Answer 85

Stuff

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GGzc3x9WJU

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your brain releases dmt

Answer 88

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Answer 89

Quit "#" sh*t and grow the hell up.

Answer 90

through the mind

Answer 91

im not sure.. :o