What function do dreams hold in the mind?

[Fig]

Of course no one really knows... but what do u think?

I've heard from an evolutionary standpoint (I think it was on like, V sauce or some TED convention) dreams play a part in preparing us for the following days tragedies, being that dreams often have a negative connotation. That seems far fetched/stoopid to me though.

Maybe dreams are our subconscious interpretation of the transcendent (lol, na)

Or maybe just our brain going over what happened during the day.

I dunno, what do you know?! Fuck you...

[Zen]

What if dreams are actually not dreams at all? What if life is the real dream and we wake up only to tire ourselves for sleep?

Originally Posted by Zenland

What if dreams are actually not dreams at all? What if life is the real dream and we wake up only to tire ourselves for sleep?

Zhuangzi butterfly theory?

[Split]

Originally Posted by namix

exactly --- that is why "time" is so important

if your mind enters alpha mode, or deeper brainwave levels, you do not experience time.

that is why clocks will show up weird as fuck in dreams... one of the main triggers (or tips/tricks) for lucid dreaming.... your mind cannot co-create the environment you experience in the dream world while "managing time" -- because time is not a dimension we influence in any reality...

so look at a clock while dreaming -- you'll see it either stopped, going backwards -- or showing up with weird symbols and shit... something that "triggers" that you are dreaming.

some will wake up immediately until they are used to 'riding the wave' --- but eventually, you will find what we will all find, at some 'point in time' :)

you quoted yourself to agree with yourself?

also, you cannot read/ visualize symbols correctly in your dreams. If you ever lucid dream, try it. Shit looks like its written in Hylian

Originally Posted by Masaii

Zhuangzi butterfly theory?

whats dat



i used to have mad vivid dreams where I was dying/ getting sucked through a wormhole of one universe, and waking up in another... legit woke up sometimes wondering if it was real or not, or id have false memories/ memories that i ciuldnt tell if they were from dreams or not.

[namix]

Originally Posted by Split Eight

you quoted yourself to agree with yourself?

haha man, i am glad you pointed that out - because quoting myself to agree with myself is fucking awesome, and i look forward to doing it more often!

i THINK i was tryna respond to Zen's post re: 'what if the dreams arent dreams, but we wake up just to tire to sleep' -- OR to Geno's point about dreams recreating different parts of our day/etc in different orders

pretty much any post on that page woulda made sense to quote and talk about 'time' OTHER than mine haha... but fuck, i dont know...i was in the zone there and might have triggered a convo between me and myself.

Originally Posted by Split Eight

also, you cannot read/ visualize symbols correctly in your dreams. If you ever lucid dream, try it. Shit looks like its written in Hylian

word up --- have you had that moment RIGHT before too, where you actually acknowledge that you THINK you're reading because you just "understand" whatever it is your processing, but then finally see that it isn't normal language/order/letters/etc.? that's one of the more interesting moments in the 'ol dream scape from my perspective lol

[namix]

Originally Posted by namix

haha man, i am glad you pointed that out - because quoting myself to agree with myself is fucking awesome, and i look forward to doing it more often!

lol, couldn't agree more!

[namix]

links between this realm and the next -- bridged by archtypes you create based on your day-to-day experiences and emotions

[namix]

Originally Posted by namix

links between this realm and the next -- bridged by archtypes you create based on your day-to-day experiences and emotions

exactly --- that is why "time" is so important

if your mind enters alpha mode, or deeper brainwave levels, you do not experience time.

that is why clocks will show up weird as fuck in dreams... one of the main triggers (or tips/tricks) for lucid dreaming.... your mind cannot co-create the environment you experience in the dream world while "managing time" -- because time is not a dimension we influence in any reality...

so look at a clock while dreaming -- you'll see it either stopped, going backwards -- or showing up with weird symbols and shit... something that "triggers" that you are dreaming.

some will wake up immediately until they are used to 'riding the wave' --- but eventually, you will find what we will all find, at some 'point in time' :)

[Geno]

A scientific explanation that I've heard, suggests that dreams are our everyday thought.. weather consciensly, or subconsciously thought about -being played out as a movie while we sleep. Often times all jumbled up and pieced together from this thought to that thought compiled into one big cluster fuck.

Its basically liiving out your thoughts in a random unorganized film.

[Chyeahhh!!!]

I think it's apart of the dmt release. If we didn't dream, we'd go mad imo

[namix]

Originally Posted by SpaceGoat Fart

I think it's apart of the dmt release. If we didn't dream, we'd go mad imo

dammit bro - you are so close and you dont even know


you need to let go man...


stop asking questions and start listing to the answers hommie, you seriously have the aptitude to have a "click" that puts the array of shit you know together, you just need to turn down the volume around you brotha

[Anjahl]

Originally Posted by SpaceGoat Fart

I think it's apart of the dmt release. If we didn't dream, we'd go mad imo

There are people who can go without sleep for weeks or longer with no noticeable effects.

[Neighbor]

Originally Posted by Anjahl

There are people who can go without sleep for weeks or longer with no noticeable effects.

Go without sleep or go without dreaming?

Choose your words wisely, my young son.

[Anjahl]

Originally Posted by Outlaw

Go without sleep or go without dreaming?

Choose your words wisely, my young son.

I ain't young and I ain't ya son boy.
But they go without sleep. For true dreams to occur you NEED sleep.

Originally Posted by Anjahl

There are people who can go without sleep for weeks or longer with no noticeable effects.

LOL, fuck off. Links from a credible site or leave the thread with that horseshit.

[Fig]

Now this is a stoner thread

[Fart]

Entertainment while sleeping
also the average number of dreams can be from 50-100 per night, but we only remember 1 or 2

[namix]

Originally Posted by Art

Entertainment while sleeping
also the average number of dreams can be from 50-100 per night, but we only remember 1 or 2

eh, they just guess shit man


we just forget how to remember.

that moment where you see a "pop can" the next morning and remember 1 dream, and that one dream brings you back to a whole other dream/experience...

i will never trust external stats when it comes to dreams -- and im a statistician lol

[Fart]

Originally Posted by namix

eh, they just guess shit man


we just forget how to remember.

that moment where you see a "pop can" the next morning and remember 1 dream, and that one dream brings you back to a whole other dream/experience...

i will never trust external stats when it comes to dreams -- and im a statistician lol

There was an entire show with brain wave activity evidence

[namix]

Originally Posted by Art

There was an entire show with brain wave activity evidence

right bro, but there was also a show that said america was discovered in 1842...

cognitive psychology is my favorite subject matter man, and it would argue your point as well --- but it's subject matter argues against itself as well...

its conflicted in terms of memory -- our ability to retain memories through external stimuli is not the same from 'within'... 'within' is, in some ways, more difficult, because we "think about remembering" when we are awake more than we do when we are asleep


nevertheless ---- learn how to balance the transition between brainwave levels, and you can absolutely recall more than 1-2 dreams per night.... in fact, if you practice meditation/etc (which gets you closer to the same brainwave level), you can learn how to remember enough dreams that you stop discerning between the differences...

macro and microcosms... at some point those 50 dreams transition and bleed into 1-2 anyway... from ya gradmas house to floating in space, was that one, two, or 3 hundred dreams apart? you know?