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Add CommentIn my own oberservations of dreams, I believe that the random firing of neurons during sleep are the brains way of connecting new brain cells to the neural circuits. The left brain interpretor makes up a scenario involving these random firings and we get a dream. They are stored in short term memory so the new networks are ready for the next day. Is anyone studying this idea currently?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisActually I think it works diffrently but to the same as your answer with the same process. I think that your brain is picking out the important things it needs. I think this becuse of a dream I had another night. I had just fell asleep on the couch watching football at night. I had a dream of playing football and losing to a big game which the team I wanted to win lost. Another is when I was watching a WWII show on TV and when I fell asleep I had a "toy war". Yours is also true I am just adding on to it, the brain does put you in random scenarios but it puts everything where it needs to be. Even a candy land dream is still organized. Why are you even in candy land?, Why candy?, and why is everyone made of candy? My conclusion it is random though organized to tell things apart from this is the bad guy and dont go in that dark tunnel.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThough I am just a 12 year old kid in the 7th grade so if anyone dissaproves this theory or I have grammer mistakes please correct me I have this on my e-mail. Thank you.
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