Friday, February 12, 2010

Dreams and Me.

Dreams. Why do we dream?

What was the evolutionary reason behind dreams? Were dreams an unintended consequence of evolution? If they were useless relic, why weren't they eliminated?

Did dreams gave direction to humans? Then, why don't we remember them as often.



--- to be continued

8 comments:

deepu said...

The evolution concept itself might be a dream.. We are all inside a dream to perceive it to be a dream..

Vamsee said...

U mean the whole universe as a dream?
thats good idea. But, can we be logical in our dreams? Dreams are 'feelings'. But, what if, even that logic is a feeling??

Anonymous said...

Dream is just a movie played by our mind with memories it captured when we were awake. The mind cannot entirely replace the actions of all our senses, so the dreams are mixture of events. A relaxed mind doesn't get any dreams and a dream implies that our mind is working and we are not entireply relaxed.

Vamsee said...

what do u mean by relaxed mind?
We are not in control of our mind once we sleep. I believe relaxation has nothing to do with dreams..may be it helps in the kind of dreams we get. The ultimate relaxed mind is death..if you mean in that way, then yes.

Dinesh Aditya said...

Sigmund Fraud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' is where the answers are.

Vamsee said...

I am not looking at interpretation but the source and consequences of dreams.

Blair said...

Nothing about dreams is human. My damned dog dreams. Dreams are probably just a biproduct of reduced oxygen levels to unimportant areas of the brain during sleep. Kind of like a pre-death hallucination would be.

Vamsee said...

Blair, but the difference is -- we remember those dreams as they are stored in our memories. And, every memory effects us in one way or the other.Good example is the hallucination about benzene molecule.