What function do dreams hold in the mind?

[Anjahl]

Originally Posted by Zenland

You'll die without sleep. The Vietnamese man probably just didn't experience rem sleep. There's been people who've went without rem sleep because of brain injuries or strokes even but you'll die without sleeping at all.

There is a two percent of the population that require 2 hrs or less a night, and many of them can go weeks without any real negative effects. Quite frankly, you're wrong on this. The average person needs sleep; my statement was never that people don't need to sleep, but that there are people who go long periods without it to no negative effects at all. As a matter of fact, they tend to be more fit, stronger, and more resistant to pain then the average human.

Chyeeeaahh was saying that without dreams we go mad. There are people who go without dreaming who don't go mad. Therefore, his statement, well generally true in a sense, is not completely true.