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Weird dreams you've had
Redball:
--- Quote from: Kenyahp on 28 Mar 2012, 16:23 ---Actually, dreams serve a very useful purpose. They allow the brain time to rest and make sense of everything that occurred during the day. So, in a way, they are meaningful. Its just interpreting them that gets tricky. I don't think dreams show hidden fears or whatever. I think they, instead, show you something about yourself you knew but didn't want to admit.
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Aha! That I liked falling down a shaft into a gas flame!
Dollface:
Last nights dream is pretty hazy but thing i can clearlly rember that everyone spoke french me included and i dont even know to how to speak it.
LTK:
--- Quote from: Kenyahp on 28 Mar 2012, 16:23 ---Actually, dreams serve a very useful purpose. They allow the brain time to rest and make sense of everything that occurred during the day.
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What you're describing is sleep. And you're right; sleep serves to consolidate memories in the association areas of the brain. Some studies with brain recordings in rats show that a sort of 2x-speed neural playback occurs of the things the rat learned while he was awake. Even though you can't do this (often) in humans, I'm pretty sure that our enhanced self-awareness is the cause of us making such a big deal out of dreams.
--- Quote ---So, in a way, they are meaningful. Its just interpreting them that gets tricky. I don't think dreams show hidden fears or whatever. I think they, instead, show you something about yourself you knew but didn't want to admit.
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Nope. Completely unrelated.
Barmymoo:
I've definitely had dreams which were directly related to a thought or event from the day before, but I think it's more that my brain kept on thinking about what I'd been thinking about during the day, rather than revealed any repressed desires or anything. I generally think psychoanalysis is a load of hooey anyway, when I had counselling she kept trying to tell me that I'd been neglected as a child and that my parents were abusive and awful, and I just came out thinking "I'm going to go home and tell my mum I love her".
idontunderstand:
LTK I don't think you can separate sleep from dreaming quite that easily. In fact it has been shown that you always dream while sleeping, only that you don't always remember it. I think Kenyahp was pretty on the spot.
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