• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 days ago

    the brain is a hodgepodge of neurons evolved over a stupendous amount of time to deal with so many different things throughout the timeline of our ancestors, i think it’s perfectly reasonable to just assume memories of dreams are left around in some neurons and when the same processes start before falling asleep the remaining parts of the memories just happen to get accessed again.

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      6 days ago

      I kinda assumed that

      Dreams usually make little sense - one can fly, punches don’t work, you have no pants… because the parts of our brain that make reason and logic are sleeping.

      We forget dreams because the waking brain can’t make sense of them, so the thoughtsare discarded or ignored.

      So, as your brain goes to the sleep state, the reality dissolves to dreamscape, allowing you to remember the nonsensical experiences.