please can any one tell me why do we get dreams?
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There are several theories about why we dream. Are dreams merely part of the sleep cycle, or do they serve some other purpose?
Possible explanations include:
representing unconscious desires and wishesinterpreting random signals from the brain and body during sleepconsolidating and processing information gathered during the dayworking as a form of psychotherapy
From evidence and new research methodologies, researchers have speculated that dreaming serves the following functions:
offline memory reprocessing, in which the brain consolidates learning and memory tasks and supports and records waking consciousnesspreparing for possible future threatscognitive simulation of real life experiences, as dreaming is a subsystem of the waking default network, the part of the mind active during daydreaminghelping develop cognitive capabilitiesreflecting unconscious mental function in a psychoanalytic waya unique state of consciousness that incorporates experience of the present, processing of the past, and preparation for the futurea psychological space where overwhelming, contradictory, or highly complex notions can be brought together by the dreaming ego, notions that would be unsettling while awake, serving the need for psychological balance and equilibrium
Much that remains unknown about dreams. They are by nature difficult to study in a laboratory, but technology and new research techniques may help improve our understanding of dreams.
Possible explanations include:
representing unconscious desires and wishesinterpreting random signals from the brain and body during sleepconsolidating and processing information gathered during the dayworking as a form of psychotherapy
From evidence and new research methodologies, researchers have speculated that dreaming serves the following functions:
offline memory reprocessing, in which the brain consolidates learning and memory tasks and supports and records waking consciousnesspreparing for possible future threatscognitive simulation of real life experiences, as dreaming is a subsystem of the waking default network, the part of the mind active during daydreaminghelping develop cognitive capabilitiesreflecting unconscious mental function in a psychoanalytic waya unique state of consciousness that incorporates experience of the present, processing of the past, and preparation for the futurea psychological space where overwhelming, contradictory, or highly complex notions can be brought together by the dreaming ego, notions that would be unsettling while awake, serving the need for psychological balance and equilibrium
Much that remains unknown about dreams. They are by nature difficult to study in a laboratory, but technology and new research techniques may help improve our understanding of dreams.
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