Why Do We Dream?

In the third millennium BCE, Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on wax tablets. A thousand years later, Ancient Egyptians wrote a dream book listing over a 100 common dreams and their meanings. 

Why We Dream?

And in the years since, we haven't paused in our quest to understand why we dream. So, after a great deal of scientific research, technological advancement, and persistence, we still don't have any definite answers, but we have some interesting theories. 

We Dream to Fulfill Our Wishes.

 In the early 1900s, Freud proposed that while all of our dreams, including our nightmares, are a gaggle of images from our daily conscious lives, they even have symbolic meanings, which relate to the fulfillment of our subconscious wishes. Freud theorized that everything we remember once we awaken from a dream may be a symbolic representation of our unconscious primitive thoughts, urges, and desires. Freud believed that by analyzing those remembered elements, the unconscious content would be revealed to our conscious mind, and psychological issues stemming from its repression could be addressed and resolved. We dream to remember. Sleep is good to increase performances of certain mental tasks but dreaming while sleeping is better. 

In 2010, researchers found that subjects were far better at getting through a posh 3-D maze if that they had napped and dreamed of the maze before their second attempt. In fact, they were up to 10 times better at it than those that only thought of the maze while awake between attempts, and people who napped but did not dream about the maze. Researchers theorize that certain memory processes can happen only we are asleep, and our dreams are a sign that these processes are happening. We dream to forget. There are about millions of neural connections in your brain. They are created by everything you think that and everything you are doing.

We Dream to Keep Our Brain Working.

Our brain needs to  create long-term memories in order to function properly. So when external input falls below a particular level, like when you're asleep, your brain automatically triggers the generation of knowledge from its memory storages, which appear to you in the form of the thoughts and feelings you experience in your dreams. In other words, your dreams could be a random design your brain activates so it doesn't completely pack up.

We Dream to Rehearse.

Dreams involving dangerous and threatening situations are quite common, and therefore the primitive instinct rehearsal theory holds that the content of a dream is critical to its purpose. Whether it's an anxiety-filled night of being chased through the woods by a bear or fighting off a ninja in a dark alley, these dreams allow you to practice your fight or flight instincts and keep them sharp and dependable just in case you will need them in real world.

We Dream to Solve Problems.

Our mind can create limitless scenarios to help us grasp problems and formulate solutions that we may not consider while awake. As technology increases our capability for understanding the brain, it's possible that one day we will discover the definitive reason for them. But until that time arrives, just keep on dreaming.

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