The other morning I woke up thinking how I had managed to conjure up and relive several dreams during the night. This is when I developed my new theory on what dreams are and where they come from.
The more I thought about it, the more the theory made sense. Basically, the theory suggests that dreams are false memories created by the brain, so when you are having a dream, you are simply “remembering” the false memory.
If the theory is correct, then that leaves the question of why. Why does the brain do this during REM sleep? This leads to the second part of my theory.
I reckon that the brain creates these false memories to be recalled and test reactions in the brain. There might be a particular reaction the brain is concerned with on occasion and we you recall the same memory, which would be a recurring dream.
Anyway, that is my theory, which I thought I would publish just to see if everyone thinks I’m crazy, or whether there may be something to it! Maybe my Psychology A-level wasn’t a waste of time after all.
Simple-Human 