why do we have dreams during sleeping time?
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our minds go over what we have done throughout our day and thats your dream.  i think.
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Dreams are about our unresolved emotions from the conscious state.  The scenes are used to merely outline these emotions.\n\nDriving up hill and falling back...that would indicate you are doing a lot of your challenges and opportunities in life the hard way.  Take a look at your life and see where you could make life less stressful and such an uphill challenge.
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That's actually an interesting question.\n\nOneriology, the scientific study of dreams, has revealed much about these mysterious experiences full of imagery.\n\nOne theory of dreams (the activation synthesis theory) states that dreams are the brain's attempt to interpret random impulses from the brain region known as the pons (which produces REM sleep). "Memory, attention and the other features lacking in a dream state depend on the lack of norepinephrine and serotonin, producing a psychotic state, as well as a lack of orientation to time, place and person."\n\nIf we could accurately measure these random impulses and the brain's reaction to them, we might be able to construct a probablistic (or, though unlikely, a deterministic) model of dreaming. This may vary greatly among individuals, though. If we could do that, along with being able convert the imagery into a visual format (definitely not trivial), we might be able to record our dreams.
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Dreaming is REM sleep cycle.  It is a process when your brain is active and body isn't.  So you basically have no control over body at that time.  Now the question here is nothing but superstition.  Most of the time the dreams are about what you think during day time and if you keep repeating with some intention.  Dreams usually are related to that.  Nightmares are different and quite prevalent in kids.  But adult dreams are more often purposeful.  Like lotto or career or love oriented.
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a dream is just a thought process. \nWe dont have to be asllep to dream. We even dream sometimes when we are awake...Our Brain goes on a thought spree..\nand makes us believe what ever it thinks. Thats why dreams feel so real sometimes...
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Unfortunately, there's no easy answer there.  Simply put, a dream is where you become conscious of some activity in the brain that occurs seemingly randomly in the brain while the normal mechanisms that make your conscious reality--both actions and perceptions--are disabled (partially of completely).\n\nThe problem with finding a good scientific answer is that the dream is by definition subjective rather than objective. Science might try to localize where certain brain functions occur in the brain, and they might be able to show what parts of the brain correlate to conscious perception, but they can't -explain- consciousness per se.  Consciousness is subjective, and science is objective.
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Dreams are the language that our Higher Self communicates to us about what is going on with ourselves. They are in the language of symbols which do have meaning.\n\nThey tell us more about who we are, why we do certain things, give us the bigger picture, give us guidiance and solutions to problems. They can also involve spiritual guidiance from Masters, Saints, or even God.\n\nOur society does not place importance on dreams because we do not live in a spiritual world. We live in a world where there is importance placed on our physical bodies and materialism. But we are much more than our physical bodies. We are spiritual beings residing in a body.\n\nSo to learn how to understand the symbology of dreams takes time, but it is doable. I have been writing my dreams for over five years and intepreting them with this best dream dictionary "The Dream Book: Symbols for Self Understanding" by Betty Bethards.\n\nSince I've been doing this, I have received amazing insight into myself on this journey. It's remarkable, and I love the fact that I am always receiving communciation about what is going on with myself and to help me understand where I am going in life. I've even received foreshadowings of things that are going to happen in my life.\n\nThe symbolism gets easier to understand once you understand the basis of this language.\n\nI write about my dreams and explain their meanings on my 360 blog. Here's one example:\nhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-O50H77Iib6fVzcbXCb1eO_cIAk0-?cq=1&l=6&u=10&mx=111&lmt=5&p=433\n\nAnd another to give you an idea of how dreams are interpreted:\nhttp://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-O50H77Iib6fVzcbXCb1eO_cIAk0-?cq=1&l=61&u=65&mx=111&lmt=5&p=177\n\nHope that helps!
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probably in sensations.  We dream what we know.
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I always find dreams really interesting.  In my dreams are events and scenarios that I could never think of on my own.  I kind of like the lack of logic in dreams. So, dreams interest me a lot, too.  I always pick up any article or whatever that I see about dreams.  From what I've read, dreams are your subconscious trying to work out your problems, and in extreme cases they help people move on from tragedies, because it helps them deal.  That's cool that you're conscious in your dreams.  That never happens to me but I do know people that could relate to you that way.  You can probably learn a lot from yourself by controlling your dreams
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Because they are something you fear will happen..or is your conscience trying to tell you something. Dreams are issues you have that have not resolved or things you worry about, or fantasize about but don't have the guts to face or do in real life.
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As far as we know they do.  Their eyes perform rapid eye movement at times...which is what all of us do when we are dreaming.
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First what are dreams? Second, why do we have them?\n\nPeople born blind do dream, but those dreams are based on what they have sensed before -- textures, sounds, smells and tastes. (I surmise in that order too).\n\nI'll answer the first question, but scientists are still figuring out the second one. Dreams coincide with your brain being active while you sleep. Neurons, the cells of the brain, sends and receives nerve impulses, almost like a cascade or a "random" screen-saver.  Why?  There might be a hint in the fact we go crazy and die if we don't sleep. And we sleep to dream. It may be like re-booting your computer now and then. It puts all the files back in their respective folders, resets all the registers, and organizes your information.\n\nOoops, its getting late, I need to reboot my computer.
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The body when alseep turns off the bit of the brain that tells it to move.  However every now and then it flickers back into life and you move as you are in your dream.  Its very natural and if you watch dogs sleep they chase things and sometimes even bark.  Very odd, but the brain has to stop you acting out your dreams, otherwise youd be knackered.
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Dreams are unconscious images which occurs during sleep. Day dreams occur while the person is awake revolving around fantasies. The person day dreaming usually invokes the topic of the fantasy where as in a regular dream you have no control.
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Dreams cannot predict the future in any shape or form. I challenge anyone in this area that disagrees with me to prove it!\nDreams are together with REM sleep, a phase of brain activity which occurs towards the end of the sleep cycle. This cycle is characterized by rapid eye movements(R.E.M.) stimulation of the pons, increased respiratory and heart rate, and temporary paralysis of the body. If you are awakened during REM sleep you will be dreaming.\nOk there are many studied(scientific) theories \n\n-The activation synthesis theory\n\n-dreams are ever present excitations of the long term memory system\n\nand for last what might match what you asked in a certain form, there is a theory that estates a dream solves problems and works out your daily problems in creative ways. The theory does explain that any symbols remembered or seen in the dream are what they are, meaning there is no underlying to them.\n\nin the occult side of looking at things there is Oneiromancy   a system of dream interpretation that uses dreams to predict the future.
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dreams are just means to release stress or solve some internal problems or pressure .... \n\nfigure it out
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There has in fact been a good deal of research in this field. The most common scientific explanation is the dreams represent an attempt by the brain to classify and interpret information collected during waking hours. This explains much of the representational aspect of dreams as well as their frequent transcendental relationship to daily events. It also explains why analyses can occasionally help gain insight to resolution of problems as sometimes waking examination of the mind's attempts to resolve these issues can be helpful in this regard. It might also be useful to keep in mind that we dream several times every night, with the dreams themselves becoming more abstract and representational as the night progresses, and we remember only dreams which are in progress when we awaken. I hope this is helpful.