What is sleep and why do we need it; more precisely why do we dream?

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I can tell you one thing. Dreams are essential to this reality. It starts to fall apart without them.
Many years ago I started smoking pot, I did wake and bake for probably close to 10 years.I hardly ever missed a day.


I didn't dream for all of that time then in January 2012 something broke, I wouldn't call it anxiety, or paranoia, but I had a psychotic break, and I had never had any sort of mental issues in my life. I remember being quite sure that this reality was very frail, everything was sort of like a movie set, just props, nothing felt real.

I didn't know why this was happening to me, but I set the pot down and quit. After a couple weeks the dreams came back, and boy did they come back with a bang, they were horrific nightmares. Things started getting better, but it was like living on an acid trip, I would zone out staring at things and would start to see that they weren't real, it's like things were fluid or I could see through them.

By the summer I was 90% right again, and by the end of the year, I was completely back to normal. But I will never forget that. Ten years of not dreaming, and the fabric the world is made of started falling apart for me.

Sensory deprivation

So dreaming is essential to live a balanced and sane life?

Had a flying dream when I was younger, flew above streams then above the ocean. I had never as much been in a plane at the time. Always wondered how my brain knew that perspective without actual physically observing it.

That's not exactly what I got from it. It is more like this life is an illusion, and without dreams it starts to fall apart.

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12. Dreams are universal to all higher animals including dogs, cats, etc so they must be essential for survival. 32.9% (24)
3. Dreams help us figure out complex problems. 20.5% (15)
2. Dreams allow us to communicate with the spiritual realm. 11.0% (8)
4. Dreams keep us sane and balanced. 9.6% (7)
1. Dreams allow us to cope with life. 6.8% (5)
6. Dreams help us face our fears by practicing survival without being destroyed by reality. 4.1% (3)
8. Dreams warn us of to avoid things, people, events, etc. 4.1% (3)
11. Dreams are useless because I cannot remember any of them. 4.1% (3)
9. Dreams fulfill our deepest needs and desires that reality cannot. 2.7% (2)
10. Dreams are our own personal movie theater where we can create a fantasy world. 2.7% (2)
7. Dreams allow us to test many variations to problem solving without risking failure in reality. 1.4% (1)
5. Dreams allow us to escape to a better world. 0% (0)


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Do you guys suppose the people in dreams are real?
I once met some Black people on a farm, they told me they were my relatives, and were going to help me build a house on the farm to live there as well.

O.K. . . . I get your point. How do you think the MJ kept you from dreaming?

I'm not sure, but if I smoke too much pot, I don't dream. Your mileage may vary.

According to me, we are all living in a simulation of sorts. So, the download we receive into our hard drive (brain), is used as a template for us to act and react with our surroundings for an unknown time frame.

Ever met a person who had not slept for like 3 days? The mind cannot handle the lack of the download, and will start playing tricks on the person who dared to miss his scheduled download. They start to hallucinate after missing too many sleep sessions. One commonality is the "shadow people" that people who miss sleep seem to all see.

Last Edited by Zombie Jesus 2018 on 08/14/2016 10:10 AM

i think dreams serve many purposes. some wish fulfillment, some processing thoughts and some communication with other realities.

Interesting concepts . . . you seem to have thought about this a lot?

Last Edited by George B on 08/14/2016 10:12 AM

Things are moved around in memory and re-indexed.

What are these other realities and why are they important?

Well sleep is essential or our brain goes numb, but, our brains are active during sleep. After all, it does control your heart, lungs, movements. The degree to which it is active, idk, sometimes you dream, sometimes you don't or is it simply you don't remember your dream?

As far as dreams go, I think it is a manifestation of your mood, events in your life, troubles, hopes, etc. Why do people have nightmares? Why do people have some dreams that are so unreal and senseless and crazy that if you do remember them you can't make heads or tails out of them? Why do some dreams have people you know in them and some have people you never knew? Why do you fly in dreams? Why do you never "hit bottom"? Lot's of questions, but I really think the answer is unique to each person.

Good questions!

Dogs are pretty cool too. I have one whose paws move like he's running and little soft barks come out of his mouth. It's hilarious. So yeah, animals talk in their sleep!!!

Nope ... Dreams are mind noise without meaning ...
just like your phobic awakened mind state ...

It denotes a lack of self-actualization ...

The Vedas state "Mind is Disease ... Awareness is Panacea"

The Yogin does not Dream

And some have a nasty virus called Satan.

Can you give some evidence that "Yogin does not Dream?"

Sometimes I dream of people I've never met before in real life. I wonder if those people in the dream really exist somewhere, because they have pretty unique personalities. If they do exist, I wonder if I was in their dream too.

Maybe dreaming is connecting to the spiritual internet.

That's the time our brains upload data to the mainframe. All of the info is used to construct and adjust the future events.

there's so many examples of dream types not included in that theory

Hmmmm. . . interesting theory.

I questioned somethings I had experienced of my own self in regards to speaking.
I consider writing speaking when it is in regards to the experiences.

I have always had a problem with learning in educational sense.
Yet, my siblings and other family members excelled in it.
The deficit of it was not will or desire but an inability to retain information given and to recall it.

I had to go on through out life functioning with out that being fixed or understood.
I had to operate on and in a different format just to operate or interact with my environment and others.

I have heard it said that we should be more careful what we say.
That is particularity ignored by me.
Because I found that through what I said that I did not know, was how I come to learn it.

I observed my own self speaking what I did not understand and it caught my own attention.
I reacted to my own self in that "say what" reaction.

I had to go and look up what I said just to get the understanding of it, even the definition of it.
Because I did not understand it at all.
I did not understand what the words meant and they were in my own language.

I had to question my own self as to where those words came from.
Yet, I also found that it was through this way that I learned the understanding of the content of others spoken words.

The only way I can answer for speaking things that I do not even understand or know, is by dreaming dreams I never knew were dreamt.

After this speaking of such things like that, it would bring me to go and get the understanding, of what that was or meant.

There was no memory of knowing it and no understanding of it.
Being careful of what you say can in some instances keep you from understanding.
By keeping you from going where you never have been before.

All of the above should have been the last

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13. All of the above.

dreams are nothing more then what you see on a day to day basis or what you think about.Watch a zombie movie, odds are you will have a zombie dream same day maybe a couple days later, think of a old friend odds are you will see that friend in a dream. case closed