The “Continual Activation Theory” proposes that your dreams result from your brain’s need to constantly consolidate and create long term memories in order to function properly. Without this unlearning process, which results in your dreams, your brain could be overrun by useless connections, and parasitic thoughts could disrupt the necessary thinking you need to do while you’re awake.Ĥ. A 1983 neurobiological theory of dreaming, called “reverse learning,” holds that while sleeping, and mainly during REM sleep cycles, your neocortex reviews these neural connections and dumps the unnecessary ones. They are created by everything you think, and everything you do. Researchers theorize that certain memory processes can happen only when we are asleep, and our dreams are a signal that these processes are taking place.ģ. There are about ten thousand trillion neural connections within the architecture of your brain. In fact, they were up to ten times better at it than those who only thought of the maze while awake between attempts, and those who napped but did not dream about the maze. In 2010, researchers found that subjects were much better at getting through a complex 3D maze if they had napped and dreamed of the maze prior to their second attempt. Freud believed that by analyzing those remembered elements, the unconscious content would be revealed to our conscious mind, and psychological issues stemming from its repression could be addressed and resolved.Ģ. To increase performance on certain mental tasks, sleep is good, but dreaming while sleeping is better. Freud theorized that everything we remember when we wake up from a dream is a symbolic representation of our unconscious, primitive thoughts, urges and desires.
In the early 1900’s, Sigmund Freud proposed that while all of our dreams, including our nightmares, are a collection of images from our daily conscious lives, they also have symbolic meanings which relate to the fulfillment of our subconscious wishes. And while we still don’t have any definitive answers, we have some theories. In the years since, we haven’t paused in our quest to understand why we dream.
In the 3rd millennium BCE, Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on wax tablets.
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