Do you think people NEED to dream? Why?
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The primary purpose of dreams (REM sleep) in humans appears to be memory consolidation.  Humans who "lose" the ability to enter REM sleep due to certain medications or brain injury show no serious impairment of cognitive ability.\n\nMany people (particularly those in the Freudian tradition) try to attach special meaning to dreams.  The use of "dream dictionaries" to uncover the unconscious hidden meaning of dreams is a questionable therapeutic practice with little scientific justification.\n\nSome charlatans even claim that your dream images can predict the future.  As we are all free-willed beings, the future is unknowable until it becomes the present.\n\nHope this helps.
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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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" Yes, blind people do dream. What they see in their dreams depends on how much they could ever see. If someone has been totally blind since birth, they only have auditory dreams. If someone such as I, has had a measure of sight, then that person dreams with that measure of sight. I still dream as though I can see, colors included. For people I've met since, their faces are just blurs or how I imagine they look. To me, someone like my mother looks forever 30. "
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Dreams are created through our subconscious when you sleep,playing back images from events that you may have experienced or visibly witnessed.It is also believed that we have the abilaty to control our dreams (DREAMSCAPE).So it is pssible to decide what you will dream even before you sleep because the thought is planted in the subconscious before you close your eyes.Try it you might be supprised.
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They'd dream in pitch black as they have never had any visual points of reference. They do not know what things look like so cannot dream about it subconciously. Their dreams would involve sounds, emotions, thoughts and their perception of the seeing world.
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dreams are a way for your brain to let go of things it say while you were awake.\ndreaming is sometimes your subconscious letting you know what you really would like to do..\nlike people flying..maybe you either wish you could fly an airplane or maybe you wish you could transform yourself into a bird..\ndreams are very important to a healthy mind even if some of the dreams are not what you would consider healthy..
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Dreams are usually manifestations of what you were thinking while awake. They can mean just about whatever you want them to mean.
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It is a little of both. I have had prophetic dreams before and it was a little scary when what I dreamed finally took place in the real waking world. I had nothing to do with making it happen as the criteria was out of my control. On the other hand there are some dreams that depend on our skills, and confidence to come true. For expample if you dream of being sports star, that will take skill and a lot of confidence and even a little luck.
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There is nothing wrong with dreaming,its a healthy thing as long as you spend time in reality as well and have a full life outside of your dreams.Learning how to balance,logic with creativity and dreams is another tool useful to learn.Keep a journal and log all of your dreams,perhaps you will better understand ur inner desires,and be able to face life more joyfully.
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Dreams are manifestations of subconscious mind.\n\nSo obviously you have seeded that thought yourself and it got lost among other things. That is frothing up in the dream. Many people have changed their life because of a dream they had. \n\nIt might be good it might be bad. But atleast they are acting as per those deep seated thoughts.\n\nBut I dont believe in the "God appeared in my dream and told me where to find the hidden temple" kind of cock-n-bull stories...
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My children are definitely what make me want to live life to the fullest! \n\nBut while living........I always dream.\n\n"For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real." \n\n(Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
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"What have you done in your life???" Wow! I'd have to write a book here!!! But a quick and short answer would be to say that I have challenged myself in many areas, and hopefully I have grown as a better person.\nAs far as a dream remaining, I am hoping to start a group of friends and aquaintanances who would like to gather in our homes, ( at first ) and discuss things of interest to each other. REAL Communication that we may not have the opportunity to have very often. I'd like these groups to grow, and for others to catch on and become instrumental in promoting real communication, as people still need real "friends' who they can discuss anything with. The world really needs more understanding and without judgement from others...\nHopefully not "just a dream"!!
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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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If we are actually spirits in human bodies, I think the the constraints existing in our physical universe need to be taken away for a period at night.  If your body needs physical activity as it does during the day, the spirit needs activity as well, but without the existence of gravity, having to breathe, having consequences, etc.  After all, in a dream, if you don't like your boss, you can throw a pie in his face and still have a job in the morning.  So dreams may be a spirit's way of exercising while the body is at rest.  We do know dreaming is critical to life, and if it is "turned off" with drugs or fatique or whatever, it very negatively affects life.
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sure they dream , but in different way. i think he can not see the dream like us , maybe he just feel it or sense it...
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Almost anything is possible or can be encountered in dreams. It is important not to overrate the significance of it and to analyse each dream carefully (or have it analysed by a trained expert).
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I do.  I dreamed that I got into a car accident and a few months later it happened just as I had dreamed it.  it was really weird. almost like a deja vu type thing.  But I think our dreams are there to show us things, teach us things.  Its our subconscious at work while we sleep.  Even if you think its just too odd to be real sometimes there is a theme or a message that your subconscious is trying to tell you.