[Ditter]

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[aruanan]

Whether research subjects keep dream journals at home or sleep in research labs and are periodically awoken out of rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep — the stage most often associated with dreaming — the results are the same: about three-quarters of the emotions described are negative.

Most of my dreams are good. My negative emotions are over getting "awoken" from them.

[Mercat]

2:30 am and think I’ll go back to bed.

[Jaysun]

I have the same nightmare several times a week. I’m sitting in a bus station trying to fold a slice of cheese into an airplane when some guy taps me on the shoulder and tells me that the sun is about to burn out. I ask him what to do but he says it so softly that I can’t hear him.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I think we dream because prior inhibited responses to stimulii need to be resolved and cleaned out of the system. The brain creates a little allegory to work them out. If we dreamed about the thing itself, without allegorizing it, the inhibited desire would simply repeat itself.

[z3n]

dreams are electro-chemical in nature. It doesn't have to be more glorified then that.
The brain does not go into cryogenic freeze when you close your eyes at night. There are still neuro-chemical processes taking place.