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Title: What is the science behind dreams?
Post by: Hemantdave on 07/07/2017 11:30:17
Does science have any explanation of dreams & Deja vu. I wake up at 3.59 daily & I dream of some random place. Is it psychological disorder or what?
Title: Re: What is the science behind dreams?
Post by: alancalverd on 07/07/2017 11:39:31
Repeatedly waking at a precise time suggests an external stimulus, possibly plus some internal sensitisation from the bladder or colon.

I have a theory that most dreams are a rationalisation of the short- or medium-term memory clearing out bits of debris that were important yesterday, and others are a rationalisation of a physiological stimulus like a blocked nasal passage or an insect bite. 
Title: Re: What is the science behind dreams?
Post by: smart on 18/07/2017 10:58:53
Does science have any explanation of dreams & Deja vu. I wake up at 3.59 daily & I dream of some random place. Is it psychological disorder or what?

Lucid dreaming is an evidence of increased dopamine activity while sleeping. 
Title: Re: What is the science behind dreams?
Post by: puppypower on 18/07/2017 11:52:35
Dreams are a way to maintain the energy balance of the brain, analogous to the way sleep helps the body recover from the day's activities. Dreams are often connected to free will and choice, in the sense choices are not always optimized to the energy needs of the natural brain. Willpower and choice can upset the natural balance, with dreams reflecting a  way to discharge potential and help restore balance.

Dreams have value to psychologists, because specific brain discharge; specific dreams, allows them to infer the type of potential that is being discharged and therefore the source of the repression. Dream may appear random to the untrained eyes but have a cause and affect logic to someone who studies dreams.

Brain waves tell us that the brain is always firing neurons. This energy output from neurons is flowing toward lower potential into the body. The ego and conscious mind, which direct our conscious attention, can tap into this energy flow by placing dams in the flow; pooling.This can alter the natural flow patterns resulting in energy imbalance  in the natural brain. The brain sot of throws switches to help restore the natural flow patterns, with the sudden energy discharge, triggering specific memory patterns which become conscious as dreams.

The natural brain uses 3-D logic or spatial thinking. Manipulation using 3-D logic, to restore energy balance, can create what appears to be anomalies in 2-D logic; random to the untrained eye.

As an analogy, picture 3-D logic as a tennis ball. We can approximate this tennis ball with a large number of circles, with a common center but at different angles. If I hit the tennis ball with a racket, I can distort the 3-D ball into another 3-D shape. This still is consistent with 3-D logic. However, all the 2-D rational planes used to approximate the ball will become distorted out of their plane, so their logic appears to be break down. To the conscious mind it appears like randomness has been added to 2-D.

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Title: Re: What is the science behind dreams?
Post by: alec33 on 19/07/2017 15:50:13
Medical science actually has very little idea of the real function of dreaming - because it is based merely on observation of physical phenomena. The best sources on what is really going on when you dream remain the Seth books by Jane Roberts and Robert F. Butts.
Title: Re: What is the science behind dreams?
Post by: smart on 11/08/2017 20:28:51
Medical science actually has very little idea of the real function of dreaming

I disagree. The functions of dreaming activity are well known. In specific, dreaming is essential to memory consolidation and reactivation. See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4704085/

What need to be clarified however is how exactly dreaming influence our waking consciousness.