Dreaming is a concept that applies to all of us human beings, yet despite its prevalence, I imagine a lot of folks aren’t entirely savvy with dreams, what causes them, and their meaning.
Personally, I haven’t remembered a dream of my own in years, but that is a result of using marijuana before I go to sleep. Yes, it’s a thing, and if you don’t believe me feel free to check with your friend Google.
Despite not remembering my own dreams, I find the concept of dreaming to be an intriguing one, and I wanted to learn more about it. The following information comes from medicalnewstoday.com.
“From evidence and new research methodologies, researchers have speculated that dreaming serves the following functions:
- offline memory reprocessing, in which the brain consolidates learning and memory tasks and supports and recordsTrusted Source waking consciousness
- preparing for possible future threatsTrusted Source
- cognitive simulation of real life experiences, as dreaming is a subsystem of the waking default network, the part of the mind active during daydreaming
- helping develop cognitiveTrusted Source capabilities
- reflecting unconscious mental functionTrusted Source in a psychoanalytic way
- a unique state of consciousness that incorporates experienceTrusted Source of the present, processing of the past, and preparation for the future
- a psychological space where overwhelming, contradictory, or highly complex notions can be brought togetherTrusted Source by the dreaming ego, notions that would be unsettling while awake, serving the need for psychological balance and equilibrium,” the web page explains.
The site does state that despite thorough research, there still remains a lot of unknowns regarding dreams and dreaming. Dreams are most likely to occur when a person is in the REM (rapid eye movement) stage of sleep, and the website explains how researchers believe the quick eye movements that occur during REM are a contributor to the development of dreams.
Neat stuff.
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