What function do dreams hold in the mind?

[Zen]

Originally Posted by Anjahl

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.

You just agreed with me and said I'm wrong.