• Question: Why do we dream?

    Asked by to Nat, Nate, Roberto, Sam, Sarah on 16 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Nate Bastian answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      Dreaming is a way that our brains use to process the information and experiences that we’ve had during the day. There are still a lot of mysteries about dreaming, but we know that almost all mammals dream (i’m not sure about fish, reptiles and amphibians), so it seems to be a very important part of the function of the brain.

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      Sarah Casewell answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      We dream because our brain has to learn about and think about everything we have learned in a day. This is why we sometimes have scary dreams if we are worried about things

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      Natasha Stephen answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      I think dreaming is just our brain’s way of processing everything that it has experienced during the day whilst getting some rest! I believe most animals do it as well so clearly we need to be doing it at night, even if we can’t always remember what we were dreaming about…

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      Roberto Trotta answered on 19 Jun 2014:

      We don’t know for sure — some people believe it’s a way by which our brain elaborate the conscious experiences of the day, a bit like cleaning up you hard disk when you get too many files on it.

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