• Question: Why do we dream?

    Asked by Chickenman3000 to Arthur, Clare, Daniel, David, Tora on 13 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by qwertytrewq24.
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      Tora Smulders-Srinivasan answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      There are some theories that dreaming is when our brain cells process the day & make sense out of it.

      Certainly it’s necessary, not dreaming can cause serious problems!

    • Photo: Daniel Parsons

      Daniel Parsons answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Hi there,
      Scientists are still a little baffled by many aspects of how and why we dream despite doing sleep and dream studies for decades now. We still aren’t 100 percent sure about why we sleep, or exactly how and why we dream.
      Some research, which I am a fan of, think that dreams are tied to how we form memories or process emotions – its like during the day we have lots of papers on the desk we are reading and at night we file the papers away…and that filling process is our dreaming.

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