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My personal theory was that dreaming allows humans to rest while staying somewhat alert to the environment (because outside phenomena tend to manifest inside dr
by Tycho 8y ago
My personal theory was that dreaming allows humans to rest while staying somewhat alert to the environment (because outside phenomena tend to manifest inside dreams). The phased aspect of REM sleep allow groups of humans to sleep at night while guaranteeing that some members of the group will be in REM rather than deep sleep at any given time, so the group never becomes completely unconscious of the surrounding environment.
- bleke 8y agoMy couch scientist theory is that REM sleep is phase when brains reconnects and tunes quantum links between neuron groups (assuming brain is big quantum computer underneath), that why there are chaotic movements.
- hexane360 8y agoThat's a pretty big assumption there. There's a huge difference between "exploits a quantum effects" (like classical computers today) and "is a quantum computer". What evidence leads you to suspect the latter?
- geuis 8y agoHypothesis, not theory.
- yesenadam 8y agoYes, but....the usage you apparently objected to is how the word theory is used in the world, i.e. it's one of the meanings of the word. At least, I looked in a couple of dictionaries and they gave sentences just like the one you objected to, as examples of correct usage. Yes, in science, the word has a narrower meaning; I'm sure people on here know that.
- taneq 8y agoMy guess was that dreaming is just cross-talk while our brain consolidates and archives our memories from the day, and uses them to train for the next day.
- Jeff_Brown 8y agoEven if dreams arose as interference, given that evolution "tries" to capitalize on every possible opportunity, doesn't it seem likely that there's useful information in them? The ego controls the self all day in a process that discards lots of information; at night, other processes (perhaps that were ongoing in the day, or perhaps new ones) might be able to "speak" and be heard where in the waking state they would be ignored.