The human brain is a mysterious little ball of gray matter.
after all these years, researchers are still baffled by many aspects of
how and why it operates like it does.Scientists have been performing sleep and dream studies for decades now,
and we still aren't 100 percent sure about the function of sleep, or exactly how and why we dream.
We do know that our dream cycle is typically most abundant and best remembered during the REM stage of sleep.
It's also pretty commonly acccepted among the scientific community that we all dream,through the frequency in which
dreams are remembered varies from person to person.
The question of whether dreams actually have a physiological,biological or psychological function has yet to be answered.
But that hasn't stopped scientists from researching and speculating.
There are several theories as to why we dream.
One is that dreams work hand in hand with sleep to help the brain sort through everything it collects during
the waking hours. Your brain is met with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of inputs each day.
Some are minor sensory details like the color of a passing car, while others are far more complex, like the big
presentation you're putting togther for your job.During sleep,the brain works to plow through all of this
information to decide what to hang on to and what to forget. Some researchers feel like dreams play a role in
the process.
Another theory is that dreams typically reflect our emotions.During the day, our brains are working hard to
make connections to achieve certain functions.
When posed with a tough math problem, your brain is
incredibly focused on that one thing. And the brain doesn't only serve mental functions.
If you're building a bench , your brain is focused on making the right connections to allow your hands to work in concert
with a saw and some wood to make an exact cut. The same goes for simple tasks like hitting a nail with a hammer.
Have you ever lost focus and smashed your finger because your mind was elsewhere
Some have proposed that at night everything slows down. We aren't required to focus on anything during sleep, so our brains make very loose connections.
It's during sleep that the emotions of the day battle it out in our dream cycle.