ever wondered about what dreams are for?

[Vincent]

i haven't quite got this all straight, but I think I have the general idea down.....

as follows.

dreams are REM (rapid eye mastibation). they serve to rid the brain of toxins or some ####. when you are depressed, your brain generates alot more of these (cortisol is one I think). So you dream more, three times as much in fact. During REM your bod and mind aint resting. Thus wake up fatigued. Fatigue sucks on energy and motivation. To do #### like exercise or attempt at socialising. Both of these generate seretonin, which reduces REM. Hense, its a negative feedback loop. The way out? Boost seretonin with exercise and meds. Then once you have the energy from reduced dreaming, tackle the cause: -> SA.

last two nights I woke up frequently during the night (new bridge), all of which........dreams. Morning, exhausted. What are the odds?

nothin new I know, but to me is

comments?

 

[crazyfairyx]

I love good dreams, bad ones are awful though and leave me feeling like I didn't sleep at all.

I don't actually have much interesting to say on this, but I had to reply because it reminded me of when my lil' sister was quite young, she told me that dreams are screensavers for your mind :lol: It's a nice way of looking at it.

 

[pea]

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[Scottish_Player]

Dreams are intresting, when i was a kid i used to have the most weird and wonderfull dreams every single night, it was like when i went to sleep i had another life to live. Sometimes i wouldnt remeber them until somthing triggered them in my brain to remind me of them.

I love the dreams where you wake up not knowing if it really happened or not?

I had a dream about a week ago, i was on a spare bit of ground somewhere and there was this girl/woman she was about 21 or so, i was doing nothing and she came over to me and said "iam your gf" she took my hand and dragged me home and inrotuced herself to my parents and then took me to my room and we lay down and that was that but when i woke up it felt so real like it really happend with that happy feeling in my stomach. The strange thing about the dream was that through out it all she led the way in everything? That was my happiest dream in a while.

Just my 2 cents worth

 

[SilentOutlaw]

I dream all night long every time I sleep. Now I know why I wake up fatigued and have no motvation or energy to do anything. The only problem is I also have no motivation or energy to exercise enough to boost seretonin and reverse the negative loop. Dreams are can be very cool, but also very bad for me if this is true. Damn you dreams! Damn you to hell!! :evil:

 

[Nie]

Isn't it exactly the other way around?
People whose REM phase is regularly interrupted during sleep develop disorders.

they serve to rid the brain of toxins or some ####.

I don't know..

One theory I know is that REM sleep is necessary for brain development.

Babies spent a lot more time in REM sleep.
It declines with age.

Both of these generate seretonin, which reduces REM.

Why?
Isn't serotonin entirely absent during REM?

The way out? Boost seretonin with exercise and meds.

It might be not a good idea to reduce REM.
Mice died after 2-3 weeks without.
Lack of REM sleep can make you hungrier, create problems to learn, concentrate, or remember.. and more.

Although REM sleep is reduced by most anti-depressants and sleeping pills,
it is not because they increase serotonin.
It is another (bad) side effect.


I think there is also a new medicine coming someday that increases REM sleep or so.
But I'm not certain.

 

[spicecontroller]

i heard that rem is good for you. not sure on the technical details though.

 

[itchy]

I love dreams, and am totally curious about them.
I read one theory about loops or cycles where, as we live each day we experience a number of emotional loops, i.e. something happens, we take some form of action, a resolution occurs and the loop is completed...but if we don't resolve an emotional loop for whatever reason...i.e. walking away from a problem or supressing things or holding on to anger or whatever, then our dreams will attempt to complete the loops for us.

also Michel Gondry had a cool theory of dreams which I think is true...he noticed that various parts of his memory combine themselves and cross over each other in his dreams...i.e. if, during the week, he reads about sharon stone, a few days later he goes to a disco, and the next day he feels angry for some reason...he'll have a dream where he's angrily dancing at a disco with sharon stone!

I like some of the ancient theories of dreams about the soul leaving the body at night and stuff aswell....really interesting!

 

[thoughtless]

:lol:

 

[Remus]

Dreams are there to stop you being bored while your asleep! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sorry.

thats what I was about to post! 8O

 

[Remus]

Yeah right!! :roll: :wink:

yeah it was, I saw the title and sat here smuggly think of that little quip and putting it up, then I see you said it already...doh!

 

[Horatio]

lol Vincent, I was going to post last night before I went to sleep to say that I very rarely have dreams that I remember but the occasional one that I do have usually really sticks out

turns out last night was my first dream in months, spent hours being chased by a guy with a gun took several shots at me and eventually shot me in the back and followed me into a hospital where I was told to join the queue because there were lots more important people than me, I sat in the corner as the blood drained from me into a big pool and then I woke up... charming huh! :lol:

but your right Vincent, I woke up feeling very fatigued