• Question: Why do we dream?

    Asked by Ethan09 to Emma, Monica, Sebastian, Sinead, Thomas on 11 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by Megan, emma.
    • Photo: Sinead Loughran

      Sinead Loughran answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      I’m not a neuroscientist but I think it is the brain’s way of helping to solve problems in our ‘waking’ lives, of making sense of what happened in our day and processing the emotions we have experienced.

    • Photo: Emma Roycroft

      Emma Roycroft answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      Not exactly sure but they say it helps us to process what has happened to us during the day

    • Photo: Sebastian Gornik

      Sebastian Gornik answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      It is not yet fully understood why we dream, but like Sinead and Emma already said; some aspects of dreaming clearly help processing and sorting the everyday events for long term storage. It is also assumed that it clears some space for more important memories. If we would remember every little detail of our life we soon would reach our brains storage capacity, dreaming probably helps to sort the clutter from the important memories.

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