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I suspect dreaming is just a process that goes on constantly but gets completely stifled by either consciousness or deep sleep. The notion that we rehearse our
by mynameishere 19y ago
I suspect dreaming is just a process that goes on constantly but gets completely stifled by either consciousness or deep sleep. The notion that we rehearse our instincts at night makes me wonder why we don't dream about the full gamut of our instincts more often--things like: 1) Placing food in mouth, 2) Finding a designated area to defecate, 3) Forming social hierarchies, 4) Killing animals, 5) Enforcing mores, etc. I've never dreamed about any of those things.
- randallsquared 19y agoThe suggestion here is not that dreams are rehearsing instincts, but that they're rehearsing of behaviors which are important for survival, and the selection of which behaviors to rehearse depends mainly on what the waking mind is concerned with, since that's a good indicator of "important survival behavior". Hence dreaming about code for those that program all day, or having World of Warcraft dreams after playing too much WoW. Er... not that I've ever done that last. Nope. Not me.