Science of Dreams: Why Do We Dream?

Why do we dream at night and what is the purpose of dreaming? Bestselling author Dr. Matthew Walker, sleep researcher Dr. Raj Dasgupta, and Jungian psychologist, Dr. Lori Tyler share their expertise on the mystery of dreams and how we can learn to remember them.

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JFC You'd think these experts would have better advice instead of wasting 5 minutes of everyone's time here... Putting aside the possibility that dreams are potentially Qualia's playground in a universe that hasn't allowed it to mature to its final form yet, dreams seem to be a tool to process events we're either not cognizant of, or haven't paid enough attention to. A practical tool for solving problems in real-life is recalling your dreams and "re-dressing" them as an idiom. Your brain loves to talk in idioms; "Don't beat around the bush, Kill two birds with one stone, etc."

If you can recall your dream, no matter how surreal it is, then re-context it using an idiom, you'll often find the subject matter is relevant to whatever you're currently going through in real-life. The dream either acts as an indicator for something you should be paying more attention to, or even a solution to how you should try resolving this problem.

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Hi
Is there any correlation between being cold while sleeping and nightmares?
For instance 9 out of 10 times if I get cold during sleep I would get most violent nightmares nothing to do with my profession I don’t suffer PTS as far as I know yet when I am cold in my sleep I am getting nightmares and it’s mostly vampires, they other chasing me and cornering me, or looking at me licking they fangs.
You ask me if I believe they exist, I would say no, I don’t watch horror movies well once or twice but not my favourite genre, still if you ask me to take stroll in the evening on the graveyard I would say no.
So what’s wrong with me???
Thanks