The structure of dreams

Discussion in 'Dreams' started by sentient, Jan 1, 2007.

  1. sentient

    sentient Senior Member

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    I have analysed my dreams a lot and in detail for several years and what I have come to realise is that my dreams are very sequential in the sense that I am prepared to say the vast majority of dreams can be explained this way.

    From When you wake up to the time you go to sleep again the events of that day are either significant or non significant to your brain. Almost every dream you have will go like this:

    The dream will not or probably will not look like the reality of that day but all of what you dream goes in a sequence which - one way or another - no matter how bizzare or symbolic the drean gets it represents the day you just did - in the order that you did the day from the time you wake up - to the time you sleep again. If you think about your dreams and really think hard about the previous day before you started to dream there are events within the dream that only relate to that day. Also - as a kind of over-current there is often a sort of plot running through the dream that links what you thought to the events so in a way you are putting together a symbolic picture of that previous day together in your mind as you sleep

    it encompasses thoughts - feelings and events. Dreams get wierd when your brain really starts to symbolise things that are very complex like human relationships and feelings toward what you did

    but essentially dreams are a very sequential analysis of the previous day - one which is so detailed and complex that often your rational mind cannot work it out properly but I believe dreams are really very important - as the human brain is the most complex structure in the universe - I believe dreams are to complex for logic and reason alone as they also incorporate emotions and feelings - I think the sleeping brain understands them well but not the waking brain
     
  2. PurpleGel

    PurpleGel Senior Member

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    - you generally dream about content from within the past three days.

    - dream time appears to be preserved. that is, they occur in real time; two minutes in dream world is two minutes by the clock.

    - the brain also uses dreams as training for hypothetical scenarios. for example, off the top of my head, i know that many women have dreams about being or becoming pregnant. dreaming about such an event is a way for the individual to preemptively prepare for the "what-if" scenario.

    - the most vivid and memorable dreams often occur at the end of the night, prior to waking, when REM sleep cycles increase in duration and frequency.
     
  3. themnax

    themnax Senior Member

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    nope. all the things i might do someday if there was nothing, no bariers or difficulty to doing them, more or less maybe, but things from that day, or just things from that day, or even just things from past experiences? again nope. PLACES similar to places i've been, explored, enjoyed experiencing or didn't get to explore as much as i might otherwise have liked to, THESE figure prominently in my dreams, but not, actal experiences of any kind from my everyday life and certainly not those nor limited to those or anything implied by those of that, or any other particular day.

    nope. just a parallel universe, not always all that "parallel" either, to wander arround in and explore and have experiences UNIQUE to IT in.

    that's how MY dreams are. there's no reason, and i don't, to expect EVERYone else's to resemble mine either.

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    now the things that i experince in the day or the past few days, what they do, is that is what inspires my thoughts that i then feel compeled to share with the world by ranting about on line, like in random thoughts or elsewhere that i can

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