Comments on: Why We Dream: Real Reasons Revealed

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:40:58 +0000

Check out “What Are Dreams?: Nova”

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/dreams/

Its available on netflix streaming.

By: Guz

Guz — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:08:48 +0000

That’s not exactly news. Gustav Jung already stated this several times, but with different words and approach.

By: alan

alan — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:56:08 +0000

When I suggested this ages ago, people appeared to ignore it. Now I suspect they believe they dreamed it up. If you have a problem, identify its components in your mind before you go to sleep. Then completely forget it. With no distractions to divert computational power, the mind will automatically attempt to fit the pieces together in every way possible. Even those a conscious mind might dismiss, or suppress, as preposterous. It’s the difference between devising a formula to resolve a sum, or having a computer run through every possible calculation. If your mind finds a possible solution, it will alert you when you wake. I call it Night Serve.

By: Raoul

Raoul — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:52:45 +0000

I think the selves are not operating the same way as during the day and therefor will work it a little different in dreams. But we can trigger the same state during the day, also that way of using your brain. Although people will find you a bit off’ish … surreal …

Lots of my dreams are also about keeping another part of me alive … one part of me tortures the other self in those dreams. I have been waking up while hearing the other me telling me stuff … showing me stuff … it’s as if one says the words and the other creates the pictures to go with that .. Not always, but at times.

Dreams constantly change .. and trigger constantly different systems. We are simply not dead in our sleep .. there is no real reason for our dreams in my opinion .. we are simply alive, we go on.

By: zoe

zoe — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:45:24 +0000

I often dream thay ex is coming after me and wants to hurt me! even though i am happily married,if i have a fight with my now husband i,ll dream my ex is coming for me! very scary. I wonder why?

By: Simon Huggins

Simon Huggins — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:57:29 +0000

Not exactly new. I did a quick google, and got a list of famous examples of this phenomenon from http://www.brilliantdreams.com/product/famous-dreams.htm – probably best to ignore the productsell as detracts somewhat. The benzene one is the one that stuck in my mind from years ago as he fortunately didn’t go for Freud’s dodgy interpretation of snakes in dreams.

By: Elise

Elise — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:09:13 +0000

Some of my dreams feel VERY real…..which is sometimes not very nice, lol. And obviously, Derren, you have appeared in mine plenty of times too….. those are always nice, HAHA!!
Sometimes they are totally bizaare and don’t make sense. I dream about the past alot, like my old houses and …. SCHOOL and UNI….AAAAAAAAAARGH! Oh the fun :S xxx

By: Steffen

Steffen — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:45:10 +0000

I remember the story how Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, got the crucial idea – the eye at the *top* of the needle – which finally made it possible.

After countless futile attempts trying to build a sewing machine with conventional needles, he went to sleep, quite frustrated. He dreamed that he was captured by savages, who made a war dance. He looked to their spears, and saw that these spears all had a hole in the spearhead.

He awoke immediately with an “Eureka!” moment. Thats it! The eye has to be at the top of the needle! And it worked.

By: Jibjib

Jibjib — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:25:21 +0000

I was dreaming of Derren Brown last night actually. He was living in this weird housing block that was really ramshackled and we got in this lift that took forever to reach the top. Then his floor at the top was full of everything like ephemera and taxidermy. He was cooking something. Lord knows.

By: DerrenBrownFan

DerrenBrownFan — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:40:55 +0000

Well that would make sense because the man that discovered the oreder of the periodic table of elements (can’t remember his name) had been trying to find the order for ages but couldn’t and then he fell asleep and dreamed about the order of it and it turned out to be right!