why do we have dreams?
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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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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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yes and no.our dreams are about unsolved desires and ambitions.\nIn our dreams, we can 'hope'that our wishes be fulfilled
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I believe that there is some meaning in our dreams but I don't think the meaning is so simple that it can be equated to a one to one relationship between the images we see and a meaning as many books on the meaning of dreams would have you believe. I think only you can decide what it means. Did you feel scared in your dream when you did it? Did you feel angry? Could it be a signal of some kind of stress or pressing issue in your life that needs to be delt with? I really think only you can know the true meanings of your own dreams but it might be a start to start asking yourself these kinds of questions.
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Concentrate on this: There are some things in our life that we want them to happen. For eg. one may wish to be married to a person of his choice. So what we want to happen with us is something which is always there in our sub-conscious mind. And since we have no control over the inactive part of our brain (almost 90%) we see our wishes in our dreams.\n\nOtherwise, dreams may also be te fears or fancies in our sub-conscious mind. eg. the fear of ghosts etc. \n\nIn no way they are related to our future. But yes, if you convert your dreams to reality, they better are.
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oth, however, agree that we dream during the REM, or rapid eye movement, phase of sleep. During this phase of sleep, our closed eyes dart rapidly about, our brain activity peaks, and our muscles suffer temporary paralysis.\n\nThe physiological theory centers upon how our body, specifically our brains, function during the REM phase of sleep. Proponents of this theory believe that we dream to exercise the synapses, or pathways, between brain cells, and that dreaming takes over where the active and awake brain leaves off. When awake, our brains constantly transmit and receive messages, which course through our billions of brain cells to their appropriate destinations, and keep our bodies in perpetual motion. Dreams replace this function.\n\nTwo underpinning physiological facts go towards supporting this theory of dreams. The first lies in the fact that the first two or so years of ones life, the most formative ones for learning, are also the ones in which the most REM sleep occurs. It follows that during this time of the greatest REM sleep, we experience the greatest number of dreams. The second physiological fact that lends credence to this theory is that our brain waves during REM sleep, as recorded by machines measuring the brain's electrical activity, are almost identical in nature to the brain waves during the hours we spend awake. This is not the case during the other phases of sleep.\n\nPsychological theorists of dreams focus upon our thoughts and emotions, and speculate that dreams deal with immediate concerns in our lives, such as unfinished business from the day, or concerns we are incapable of handling during the course of the day. Dreams can, in fact, teach us things about ourselves that we are unaware of.\n\nConnections between dreams that the human psyche have been made by many people over thousands of years. The famous Greek philosopher, Aristotle wrote in his "Parva Naturalia," over 2,200 years ago, of a connection between dreams, waking experiences, and emotional needs.\n\nOthers have delved into more complicated explanations for dreams, such as the prophetic nature of dreams written of in the Bible, which was and is a belief held by many cultures. Sigmund Freud, one of the fathers of modern psychology, believed dreams to be symbolic of any number of things buried deep within our minds and our memories.\n\nUntil someone proves or disproves one of these theories, or poses an alternate one, we are left at square one. Our knowledge as to what causes us to dream is limited to the fact that we do dream, and that dreams occur during the REM phase of sleep. Sweet dreams!
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Everybody dreams, it's just that not everyone remembers their dreams.  Dreams are the unconsious sorting out what's going on in your life, whats happened during the day and sometimes throwing up issues that are concerning you. They are healthy.
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Your mind is a gift from GOd, to help you sort out things you need to know. It gives you a better chance to cope with life...if you have very unusual dreams, then pay attention to what they are telling you, and evaluate them carefully.
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Yes and no.\n\nMost the time when we dream the mind is taking our thoughts, memories, and informtion our minds have gathered... and working them out some. Tring to make sence of it all.\n\nAlso things going on in your life that are out of the ordinary will usaly have an impact on your dreams as you mind tries to cope with it in your sleep.....  If your having a realy realy stressfull day, then that night your mind will try and work some of that stress off through dreams.\n\nThis is VERY imporant for the mind, it's a proven fact that if deprived of dreams some one will lose there sanity. While most people only remember a hand full of there dreams, or none at all, the mind NEEDS them to make sence of things and work things out!\n\n\n.... Then some times dreams are bit more than that, but thats not very offten.
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I think dreams are of what you think about during the day. So if you are thinking about love, shopping or anything else sometimes your dreams will be in that area.
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always happens to me but there is no clear cut policy on what dream is doing what, some are for counseling us and some are for detouring us from disaster, some are showing future but in  some odd way than reality, then some are just completely useless in the real world and some are completely reality based. good luck , please ask your higher self to give you answers after you wake up from these dreams. God bless
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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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Usually dreams can be connected with something that you thought about that day.  Maybe you went to McDonald's that day?  Then later on seen something that made you think of Meredith.  Your unconcious mind tries to make sense of it all so it puts it in a dream form.
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Sounds almost like a plot from the movie "They Live". \n\nDreams can be so abstract yet seem so real at times.  I have vivid dreams at times and they stay with me at times long after I wake up.  Sometimes dreams are just reflection of our Id...our inner psyche...they some time reflect our emotions and our deep inner thoughts.  Sometimes I like it when I have weird dreams...it helps me with my creativity.
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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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Dreams. Its a word to be understood properly. Dreams are generated from us, it uses the information which we have some where deep in our minds, it uses all that what we know and make a new kind of event in our unconcious mind.\nSign and Signals are alwyas floting around us, and they are not send by any divine power, as the power is right inside our own self. To understand the sign and act on it depends on how we manage to understand our own self our own power.\nEvery living being is connected with an invisible network and communication between each other is always happening, its our recevier which is capable to filter the signals or no.\nTHIS IS JUST 1% OF WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY... WOULD LIKE TO SHARE MORE IF IT INTRESTS ANYBODY...
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Dreams are thought to be imaginative activity of our brain.They have some connection with our day to day lives.It may be our past activities or our future plannings.Some communities think that dreams are superstitious things and they are sent by evil or god,thats not true dreams are harnessed and cultivated in our mind.its just a coincidence that dreams come true.The word dream here use refers to dreams which weget when we are in deep sleep.The kind of dream you see shows kind of person u are and what are your thoughts.\nAccording to one of my teachers dreams are of three types-\n\n1.ILMANI-u get supernatural dreams that give u some knowledge.Ilmani is an urdu word meaning knowledge.In these dreams u get to know about future.\n\n2.NAFSANI-u get dreams on the topics u have been pondering upon.Nafs is an arabic word meaning spirit.its the most common one.\n\n.SATANI-u get dreams which haunt,better known as nightmares.They are believed to be evils work.