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Friday, February 21, 2020

Why Do We Dream? - ScienceNerds


'Dreams' they can help us, they can haunt us or they can just be really really weird but have you ever stopped and wondered why we dream let's find out.

               
                                                                   Why Do We Dream?

When you go to sleep it may feel like your mind and body are turning off for the night, but in fact, your brain is still working while you sleep. That's right. The rest of your body is resting and recovering. Your brain that works hard, releasing of all types of chemicals and hormones into the body that helps you grow these stages of brain activity is called the sleep cycle. The sleep cycle consists of five phases and you go through five or six cycles in good sleep.   

Most dreaming happens during the phase in which you sleep the most, the rapid eye movement, the phase during REM(rapid eye movement) or REM sleep. Our eyes scurry back and forth behind our closed eyelids, but now and then we dream, but the big question remains, why are we dreaming well? Humans have been trying to answer this question for thousands and thousands of years, and even with the information age of the atomic age and the age of Aquarius, we still cannot say for sure why we dream.


 The experts have some theories, although some believe that Dreams are the way the brain processes all the emotions and experiences that we had that day. Others believe that dreams are a form of unconscious problem solving where our brains address the big questions and problems that we deal with in our lives, some researchers think dreams are nothing more than a body function that is no deeper than a fart, So why do we dream of a look that we don't know, but what we do when we sleep about a third of our life like this when you lay If you have your head down tonight, just be glad you have some fun You can watch while sleeping a third of your life away.



For centuries, experts are trying to find the actual purpose of dreams. But still, no one has any concrete answer. One theory proposed by Sigmund Freud states that we dream to fulfil our wishes. 

Dreams are a representation of our unconscious desires, thoughts, etc. Each image in a dream has some meaning. As these thoughts are not expressed consciously, they find their way via dreams. Another theory called Threat Stimulation suggests that Dreams should be seen as a defence mechanism. For example, nightmares put us in threatening situations. Allowing us to practice our fight or flight response. Which can be helpful in real-life events. A theory called Activation-Synthesis suggests that dreams don't mean anything. During the REM stage of sleep, certain circuits in the brain get activated. When the brain tries to synthesize and make sense of these signals. It results in dreams.



~sciencefreak

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