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sophie_was_here: 6 months ago

Why do we dream?

I am a dreamer. I dream in things I know will never be true. Why?

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AnswerDirect: 6 months ago | Last edited at 10:51PM on 11/22/2012

There are many ideas, theories and beliefs on this. What seems common is that dreams are where your mind processes information. Some people think of it as a communication between your subconscious and conscious self, others view it as a soul/mind connection, while others see it as a time for your mind to run permutations to train itself to do better in the wake phase. There are yet more ideas as well.

What we know, medically, is that dreams occur in what is called REM (rapid eye movement) of sleep while your EEG (Electroencephalography - measures neuronal firing in the brain) looks very similar to the wake phase. In most people the body/muscles are blocked from receiving this communication. Interestingly, people who sleep walk have a failing in this blockage. In sleep studies, they found that people who dream about a specific task or skill will see an otherwise unexplained increase in their performance. It was, in part, from these studies that the idea that dreams were a form of training tool came from.

In your case, you may be dreaming about what your subconscious or soul may either want (or fear) to come true, but your conscious mind does not see it as possible.

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sophie_was_here: 6 months ago

DANG GURL! :p

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jediareawesome: 6 months ago

Nice answer.

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FarmerGirlMaryJo: 6 months ago

Dreams keep your soul alive. Without dreams, there is no hope. Don't ever stop.... I don't plan to.

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sophie_was_here: 6 months ago

Thanks. Great answer.

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FarmerGirlMaryJo: 6 months ago

Thanks!

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Guitar70: 6 months ago

Because we want it, so we dream about it.
Some live their fantasy, while some will still have to dream about it

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PaulAH: 6 months ago

Dreams are our minds way of revisiting experiences , good & bad -

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sophie_was_here: 6 months ago

But let's say they never happened before.

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kingspawner: 6 months ago

reincarnation

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abdulhameed30: 6 months ago via Android

because when you think about some thing and sleep it will come as a dream

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sophie_was_here: 6 months ago

No not even when I'm sleeping. Day dreaming.

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niallbieber102: 6 months ago

So we can be whoever we want In our imaginations

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sophie_was_here: 6 months ago

Ohh Maddie...

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samuel_12: 6 months ago

this is why imagination is far more important then knowledge!

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kaeianne: 6 months ago

Cuz it makes u believe in magic :]

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sophie_was_here: 6 months ago

:] ? ok...

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aijazquraishi: 6 months ago

We dream things because some where in our heart those things have been for a long time and we actually could not delete it from there. Some times they are good and some times worst. Wish you happy dreams.

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prince_mohamed: 6 months ago

We dream of what we can not achieve in reality

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LeeJames: 6 months ago

because of our thoughts

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baffy: 6 months ago | Last edited at 4:45AM on 11/23/2012

dreams is something natural , we can't change this fact and if we didn't dream this mean there's something wrong with us and all of us dream just the crazy people , dreams is a way to communicate with our brains and our hearts this is why sometimes we saw in our dreams nightmares and that mean our psychological ill we are sad about something or angry and when we saw a beautiful dreams ir mean we are happy .

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JyroneDarkenson: 6 months ago

I haven't had dreams/nightmares in years does that mean something is wrong with me?

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ScrapMetalLover: 6 months ago

It's your imagination your brain is thinking of in your sleep.

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lexicraft: 6 months ago

when you dream you let your imagination run wild who agrees

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JyroneDarkenson: 6 months ago

I dreamed a dream in time gone by,
When hope was high and life, worth living.
I dreamed that love would never die,
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
Then I was young and unafraid,
And dreams were made and used and wasted.
There was no ransom to be paid,
No song unsung, no wine, untasted.

But the tigers come at night,
With their voices soft as thunder,
As they tear your hope apart,
And they turn your dream to shame.

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samuel_12: 6 months ago

Dreams are a reflection of who you are in reality!
There are things that can not be thought in this reality!
It can only be experianced in dreams!

When it is said that your imagination is far more important the your knowledge!

Since you can not know everything you have to imaginate the rest!
(Education is the worst enemy to your imagination)

The purpose of Educating a person is to make it submit to the will of others! Whoever that entity might be!

submiting is performed under Fear!
Trusting is performed under Love!

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sophie_was_here: 6 months ago

So many exclamation points! ;)

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samuel_12: 6 months ago

exclamation points make everything more AWESOME!

lol.

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jediareawesome: 6 months ago | Last edited at 11:35AM on 11/23/2012

Dreams are simply thinking, thoughts, like day dreams, but turning the night.

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TheTroll4570: 6 months ago

It's a mechanism in our minds. We can't be NOT thinking so it's like putting your computer on screen saver. It still has things going on inside but it's sleeping.

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AlyssaMachado: 6 months ago

Its you're conscious dreaming about the future

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jedder: 6 months ago

its the brains why of processing info when we sleep

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rogerfederer7: 6 months ago

Stuff happens in your daily life, the more you think about something, you will dream about it

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1mCrazy4you: 6 months ago

The brain, like many other organs continue to work after were asleep. In our sleep your heart and blood and lungs still work because of your brain. So whatever you touched or smelled or thought during the day is still in your head throughout the night. If you saw someone you liked it might appear in your dream. So your stuck in a world while you sleep because your thoughts are still functioning.

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montanaskyler01: 6 months ago

it is a step in the steps of your sleep where you start to dream

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crazytnj: 6 months ago

Because your brains thoughts, and imaginations combine together to make a safe dream, or nightmare.

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Fluttermint: 6 months ago

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
-Harriet Tubman <-- And that is why we dream...

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turbo134: 6 months ago

A dream occurs randomly in the rem state of the sleep cycle. When in rem sleep your emg is relatively similar to when you are awake of in stage 1, you brain is producing alpha waves, at around 7 hz. Dream topics are comp,teeny random and will often make no sense if you can remember them the following day. They often are triggered by memories and are thought to be a way that your brain converts short term memories into long term memories. If you can remember one, you might notice you could have, for example been on a boat and walked around the bridge and your suddenly walking on the Tarmac at an airport. That is what I mean by random.

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Red_Junger: 6 months ago

Finally, an answer on my level! :D haha

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Daniell_Directioner: 6 months ago

Ooh!! I remember rem sleep!!!

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sophie_was_here: 6 months ago

Turbo134. Uhhhh english please?

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RasSam2607: 6 months ago | Last edited at 6:05PM on 11/23/2012

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." - John Lennon. Don't worry about it, the heart wants what the heart wants, and you're not alone.

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Taylor113: 6 months ago

We all dream because it makes us believe. Sometimes dreams are all we have and they help us to not give up and to keep going.

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Kmiranda_20: 6 months ago

Because we have memory...

God Bless.

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Daniell_Directioner: 6 months ago

Dreaming is normal, it's mostly, when your worried about something or your too excited, you keep thinking about that all the time, so it also turns out to be a dream!!

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blackaugust347: 6 months ago

so we will no what we want to do when we get up...

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jamesbbrown: 6 months ago

I dont know!

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KawaiiSushiLover565: 5 months ago

Or else our sleeping would be boring

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