Why do we dream we can fly if we can't fly?
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That is exactly why.\n\nTo fly is something we "Want", other popular dreams are always about something that you want...\n\nIf we could fly...we would'nt dream about it now would we.
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Dreams are thoughts.  Often those are pictures and sounds more than they are language.  So I say yes there can be thought without language.
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being unable to move in your dream could indicate a situation in your waking life in which you feel helpless in or unable to act in. The darkness in your dream could represent something that you are unwilling to see in your waking life or it can also suggest subconcience depression or your negative side. The devil in your dreams indicates a problem that you may need to confront in your waking life. Maybe something with a friend or a family member or just something personal. Also if you are religious you can pray right before you go to bed asking jesus to help you in your dreams and to help you sleep with peacefull dreams. If you talk to him and call on his name he will not turn his back on you.
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We have dreams possibely since our brains are constantly busy and when we sleep our brains need to do something so it might looked around for events in your life( like flash backs (you know when you remenber something and is played like a video in your head))or somethings you really like and playes it like a movie to make time past so think of it as a movie theater but it's free.
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yes you will have dreams.  And being able to function is something that I think you will be able to do.  Asking the question is a step in the right direction.  The next thing will be to find out what you can do.
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Our dreams are a combination of many components: activities we involve ourselves with, internal fears, anxiety, people we have come to know, desires that we contain, and the brain's incredible memory capacity.  It is possible that you have either a fear of such things or a secret fascination or obsession with these things.
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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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Ohh, I do sometimes...last time I like had to think about it hard (or so I dreamt) or tense up or something, but I couldn't do it all the time. I had to reserve my extraordinary flying abilities for good, not evil. hee-hee
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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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"They" say dreaming is a way your brain works things out subconsciously.  If I'm really in a quandry about something and it is stressing me out, I find that I'll either dream about it or dream about something else that gives that same feeling.  Either way, its like a computer defragments I think, getting things orderly.
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To reason to dream is to dream.\nIts just our brains imagining and analysing everything.\nOur brain analyses events in both good and bad way. Its brains way to do things ;-)
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It's your mind. That happens to me, too. It is a truly vivid dream that you believe. Therefor, your mind uses what you believe it would feel like and that's what you feel.\nI used to have this dream when I jumped off my house (creepy, right?) and it always made me want to vomit. (i'm afraid of heights)
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I really don't think you can control your dreams.  It could be a desire though.\n\nIs it normal for me to dream about a monkey stealing my spaceship?
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When you are dreaming it's the sky's the limit and your mind is really on what YOU want to get out of it.
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probably in sensations.  We dream what we know.
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I'd definitely pick to have my flying dream again.  I've had it more than once and can remember some of the details, but mostly, I could feel myself flying.  I'm kind of scared of heights...not so much of being high up, but of being high up and not secured to something.  I remember the actualy feeling of being in the air, looking down and getting light in my stomach.  I eventually taught myself how to fly.  It required a thought process, and if I stopped the process, I'd fall, though I never hit the ground.  It makes you feel like you can take over the world when you wake up.
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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.