Dreams and their existence...

[Demon]

In this complex universe, I think it's possible that dreams are more than just thoughts/feelings/ideas that occur in the brain during sleep. One subject I find interesting is perspective - do you generally view yourself through first-person or third-person during a dream? Third-person is interesting because in real life you view things in first-person.

However, on the other hand, dreams can't make themselves reality. If you want to make your dream a reality, you have to wake up first and try to, if you must, do so. So dreams and reality are separate.

To me, dreams are a simulation created by the brain. One that isn't that much different than a video game simulation.

 

[Martel]

Because of my view of reality, I would say that dreams ARE a reality, until the point where you no longer think they are. If you think something is real at the time, who is anyone else to tell you otherwise, especially in a dream, when there isn't anyone else? Its not until you tell yourself otherwise that you distinguish the difference - and if you never told yourself otherwise, then the difference wouldn't exist; therefore the dream would be a reality to you.

I mean, imagine for a moment that you were never given the common perspective that dreams and reality are separate things, and if you had nobody to ask about it. If that part of your mind that tells you you're dreaming and that things aren't real when you're dreaming didn't exist. What would your conclusion be when you had a dream and were trying to make sense of it? I think one of the main reasons that people think dreams and reality are separate is because they're told that they are, and a lot of what makes up reality is based on consensus. Its how society works. But who knows? You could be entering a different reality every time you fall asleep - and until you think "this is a dream" and/or wake up, it may as well be, because you don't know any different.

Anyways, I tend to see in first-person when I dream, although I have dreams which occasionally switch to third-person to reveal that I'm actually seeing things through the eyes of someone else. I can remember most of my dreams, and a lot of them relate to what I've been thinking about recently, or random past events with oddities (for example, I've had a dream about my old school being attacked by a swarm of giant locusts before...) although I occasionally get something that seemingly comes completely out of nowhere.

 

[Gaige]

I think that you can consider dreams to be facets of reality. You can often interpret your dream to have a deeper meaning. The train going through a tunnel is a classic example of what dreams can mean on a deeper level.

But I really do think dreams are trying to tell you something, like a part of your subconscious. Probably not all the time, or even most of the time, but some of the time, yeah.

A fantastic thing about dreams is that you aren't really bound by physics or laws, only the limit of your own imagination. That's something about dreams that appeals to me. I've flown and been able to breathe underwater in dreams. I sometimes don't look at flying meaning "wanting freedom." I look at it as enjoying a flight.

I think I'm almost always in first person in my dreams. If I get knocked out or something like that in my dreams I change to a third person perspective. I get knocked out a lot, even in my good dreams.

 

[M1ghty Mous3]

Dreams are for organizing and going over information that has been acquired throughout the day. Their purpose is to better help us understand stuff that might not have made sense at the moment it was presented to us.

I normally see myself in 3rd person in dreams and their normally messed up when i do have a dream, or remember them anyway.

 

[Sum1sgruj]

Dreams are for organizing and going over information that has been acquired throughout the day. Their purpose is to better help us understand stuff that might not have made sense at the moment it was presented to us.

Yeah, I've heard that to,, that your brain is like a filing cabinet, and dreams organize the 'files' within it.
Through that, they help keep you sane and focused. It's good for memory and processing, like defragmenting a computer for instance.

Dreams are also products of emotions to. A lot of times when you dream, it's about your inner thoughts and wills. That's why we primarily dream of things we fear, enjoy, or long for.

*One theory I heard was that dreams are manifestations of what you love/hate about yourself. Like,, if you dreamed of someone hating you for something you didnt do, it may be because you are hating someone for something they didn't do. Not the best example, but you get the point lol

 

[Bei Bei]

I've had the chance to study dreams and the effects that they have on the human brain. It's cool because you see similar brain waves to when we're dreaming to when we are thinking, daydreaming, or even when people reminisce about the past. They're similar, but can't be interpreted as the same.

I always dream in the third person. I'm not a big one to discuss my dreams but for the longest time I didn't know that people dream in the first person, I had always thought that everyone dreams in the third person. I've also been animals or other people in my dream which I already know isn't very common, but those too are always third person.

I don't believe that dreams are reality. I believe that there is reality in dreams, but when I dream that I am someones pet dog, that is not reality no matter what it symbolizes. The fact is I am a human, not a dog and that's the difference between what is reality and what is not. I think that to make your dreams reality that you have to do that yourself after you wake up. Some of it's impossible. I can't make myself a dog, but some of our dreams are a possibility and it's up to us to make them happen