Why do you think people have dreams when they sleep,and why do we have them?
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because just because your physical body needs rest, your brain can't just "die".  It's constantly doing something....so your subconscious just takes over for you when you sleep.  Takes you into another place
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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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Well of course they sleep, but they certainly do dream. In fact their dreams are more vivid and sensual then sighted people because blind people have very strong senses. Their hearing, tasting, and sense of smell are quite accurate.
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Great question! I used to think that I didn't dream very often. The truth is that we all dream quite often, but sometimes we just don't remember it. I've heard the mind is a powerful tool, and now I firmly believe it. When I asked someone who had studied dream therapy (Not sure if this is what it was called), she suggested that before I go to bed at night, every night for a week, to tell myself that I want to remember my dream in the morning. OK, laugh now - I did when I heard it too, but in all seriousness, I am absolutely amazed at how well it worked!
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Dreams are you subconcious mind "playing" while you sleep. You dream about what is troubling you, you dream about things that you have seen or heard, you dream about what it is that you want or need in life, and dreams seem to be a bit off or goofy, BUT they can help you and answer your questions . THink about dreams that you have had, write them down if you can remember them,what did you see, how did you feel, who was in the dream. And then write down everything that goes on in your life, your needs, your desires, your goals and those dreams will start making sense and MAYBE they have answered your questions.
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Yes they can.\nThey dream of sounds and feelings and smells they grew up with, but no one's for sure if they can see anything. Some experts just believe that all they see is nothing since they don't know what things look like.\n\nMy mom works with sleep research and she has told me that blind people during sleep have the same brain stimuli that regular people have when they are dreaming.
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Well, most people dream of or about something they are thinking about, worried about....ect. but there was some sort of a dream machine that you typed what you want to dream of, then it would omit smells and a sound or two which would make you dream of that! i read about it in a magazine.
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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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Unfortunately, you can't avoid dreams. It is up to you what kind of dream you want; nightmare, romantic, etc. Me myself I don't dream at all. My sleep goes straight ahead or maybe I didn't notice that I dreamt. Anyway, your emotions form dreams. Or how about this, when people force themself to sleep they have dreams because the last thought they had in their mind, before they fell into sleep, will be continued differently in the mind as a dream. People who are sooooo tired, groggy, and dying to sleep, that once they fall asleep they wouldn't dream of anything because the last though that was in their mind was just sleep. So eventually no dreams took place. Now, I'm not sure about this theory, but you may try. I do this all the time. It works 70% the way I want it.
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Sometimes, dreams and nightmares, as I've read in a fairly recent Reader's Digest, is our mind's way of preparing for something. We run the situation in our head, and we try and see what to make of it. For instance, if you've been thinking of that job promotion, you might have a good dream if you're totally up to it, and you'll be rolling in the dough at home, and so on. If you're not too confident, then you might get a nightmare about all of the things that go wrong. In a sense, we use those thoughts that invade our minds as we sleep as a form of preparation. A dream is a desire that we want, a nightmare is the worst case scenario. In either case, we can learn from them - learn what we want, learn what we fear, and learn how to make what we want happen.
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If you wake up *slowly*, you can remember more dreams — prolong contact with our subconscious minds.\n\nMost of us, as soon as we awaken in the morning, allow our minds to wander off—to worrying about work, or school, or getting the kids ready—or we begin talking with our spouse or bed partner about our schedules for the day. If we do not work to recall our dreams immediately upon awakening, we will have missed a crucial opportunity. - check out the site below . . .
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I'm not sure...but dreams are usually made by random thoughts and memories. Your subconscious is constantly working 24 hours 7 days and that's what's making you dream. They are just jamming all these things together then you have a dream...most of the time it doesn't make sense or sometimes even it comes true! Dreams are sure fun and weird!
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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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It has actually been suggested that our dreams are a state where we are programmed to do whatever is is we're going to do the next day, month, year, etc. As for myself I really don't know, I guess that's kinda how I look at it. I find that sometimes they might be telling us something, or that they may simply be flashbacks from our past.
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probably in sensations.  We dream what we know.
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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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DREAMS\n\nAll of us have experienced "dreams". Sometimes they are good other times they are bad (nightmares), while in still others they are just confusing. I have seen many dreams, and actually do not remember most of them. They seem very real, yet you just forget it really quickly. So exactly what are dreams?\n\nWe typically spend 2 hours a night dreaming and in 85 to 90% of REM awakenings a dream is reported (5). The REM stage has always been considered the most intriguing, not only because of its unique features in relation to the other stages, but because of its strong correlation to dreams. It has been experimented that most people who claim to see dreams are awakened from REM (2). REM sleep begins with the pons sending signals to the thalamus, which then goes on to the cerebral cortex. Signals from the pons that shut down neurons in the spinal chord is seen as the source of the limb muscle paralysis. REM's relation with the cerebral cortex is seen as the source of dreams. Some scientists say that dreams are the cortex's attempt to find meaning in the random signals it receives during REM sleep (1). \n\nAlthough it is not fully proven, it is possible to see why the pons sends signals to shut down the limb muscles. In recent years it has been discovered that the paralysis prevents us from harming ourselves by acting out our dreams. There are people with a REM sleep behavioral disorder who act out their dreams and risk hurting themselves and others (6). The opposite of this form of REM sleep behavioral disorder is kanashibari (sleep paralysis) when we our conscious but are unable to move our bodies (2).