![]() The function of our dreams, then, must be related to the way they make us feel. It’s as if, to our brains, the content of our dreams and their relationship to our literal experience is not important. It starts with the more accurate content of our memories and then extrapolates, continuously tweaking the variables until the scenario is many interactions removed from reality. I heard once that dreams are our brains’ way of processing emotionally intense situations without the constant distraction of our waking senses. As I come to, I slowly sort out what is real and what was just an imagined experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many mornings, I wake on the tail end of a dream agitated, having dreamt that I am missing a final exam for a class I never attended or that my teeth had crumbled in my mouth. By Lisa Gullickson - I have always been a vivid dreamer - mostly mundane, always anxiety inducing, with that soupçon of surrealism. ![]()
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