Dreams

[4getmenot]

Why when you are daydreaming can you waste hours thinking nonsense yet while asleep you can have a really long dream in 2 minutes?

[Octavius]

Dreams are ever-present excitations of long term memory, even during waking life. During waking life an executive function in the brain interprets long term memory consistent with reality checking. Thus, we have no control over dreams when we are asleep but can control much of our day dreaming, because part of our brain is controlling the scenario whilst clock-watching. On average, humans (sleep)dream for about 2 hours a night, due to heightened brain activity or REM (not the band). Some of us remember them some of us don�t, but in reality our dreams are very very long drawn out �stories� and our awaking memory recalls only a snapshot of the story � mainly the interesting bits. In daydreaming you control the �dream� by consciously creating nonsensical or fanciful scenarios and stories, where in sleep it is subconscious long term memory recollection.

[4getmenot]

thanks oct, I still dont really get it though, how you can have such a long dream then when you wake up you've only been asleep for 2 minutes

[Octavius]

A lot of scientific research of lucid dreams has shown that dreams often occur in real time, that is, events occur in the same time sequence within dreams as they would if we were awake. But us ABers know that this is gobbledygook. Subconscious is timeless and we know that our over-active brains can generate dream sequences within the time it takes to wake up.

Sadly I don�t dream a lot, asleep or awake. So I am speaking from non-extensive research rather than personal experience.