Our dreams may be nothing more than a garbage disposal of excess thoughts to freshen the mind for the next day. On the other hand, daydreams and musings may lead to inventions (See: "Einstien's Dreams" by Alan sombebody or other who taught creative writing at M.I.T.) and creativity or problem solving. Our imagination has been diminished by media overload, unfortunately.
On Aug 13, 7:14 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9 Aug, 14:54, "pol.science kid" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > no.. i dont know wat dreams are made of..but i was wondering.. why > > is it that we are able to 'remember' our dreams.. like a real > > memory..like something happening in real life..i mean the only way we > > know it was a dream is the fact that we remember waking up too...now i > > know i can read a lot of books and wat not on the topic..but since i > > am already burdened with the social science literature in my > > curriculum i was hoping one of you guys might give me a lucid > > explanation... > > I tend to generally agree with Molly. We remember dreams because we > experience them. We live 'through' them like we live 'through' waking > life. As far as how we perceive a flow to events AS memory, science > has no answer. I do, though. It boils down to having a 2-D > consciousness that allows us to integrate the 4-D slices of space time > as we exist on the bow-wave of the expansion OF space-time and move > past those 4-D slices.
