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Asked by anon-208278 to Tori, Titus, Stuart, Hannah, Gill, Alessandro on 12 Mar 2019.
Question: Why do we dream?
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Gill Harrison answered on 12 Mar 2019:
Good question.
Not my area although I have trained as a hypnotherapist. I have read about it being a way of sorting memories out and almost like a filing system putting things in order and storing memories. We have lots of dreams, but don’t always remember them.I found this , which has a number of suggestions. Looks like the scientists aren’t sure either, which is why science is so interesting. I guess there will be studies using imaging and other ways of tracking brain function that will one day give us a more definite answer.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sleep-newzzz/201502/why-do-we-dreamI usually have interesting dreams that I remember when I’ve a lot on my mind or am worried about something. When do you remember dreams?
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Stuart Higgins answered on 13 Mar 2019: last edited 13 Mar 2019 11:17 am
I’m not sure, I was interested to read what Gill wrote.
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Hannah Dalgleish answered on 13 Mar 2019:
There’s a really interesting book by Matthew Walker called ‘Why we Sleep’. He explains how experiments have shown that dreams have therapeutic, problem solving, and creative functions. This is a good article about the book: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/24/why-lack-of-sleep-health-worst-enemy-matthew-walker-why-we-sleep
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