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Originally Posted by MontanaGuy
My dreams are so intense and so real that sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I'm afraid to go back to sleep because the dream might continue and in fact it usually does. I don't believe that there's any evidence whatsoever that our dreams actually are looking into the future or revealing some secret about our lives. I have no doubt that a person who is stressed out by their job or some situation in their life might have a bad dream as a result of that emotion that's churning around in their brain but I think it's a big mistake to try to exaggerate the importance of a dream to such an extent that it's making you believe that the mysteries of the universe are being revealed to you when you go to sleep each night.
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Most experiences in the REM state are personal to the unsatisfied drives generated during your waking hours. Sleep is essential to the building of synapses (learning new things) and the tearing down of old unreconciled firings to make way for new memories . . . keeping the connections flexible.
However, those altered brain states also provide access to other aspects of reality that may exist (such as particularly strong emotionally-charged thoughts of others directed at you . . . even significant events that may imminently affect you). It is not simple and unidimensional . . . with either or specificity. (BTW . . . The vividness of your dreams suggests you may not be as purely dominant left brain as you seem).