Dream realities

[kwicky]

Whenever we dream and no matter how crazy some episodes are, why does our brain never question it?

[honest_joe]

Obviously you are saying that the brain does not question the weird dream during sleep for as soon as we wake up then if we remember it and can easily put into context. It suggests that part of the brain during sleep is inactive.

[heathfield]

Sometimes the brain will question the dream, and wake us up by way of breaking off from the dream.

[kwicky]

Surprisingly people who suffer from schrizophrenia even when awake are in a dream like stance and are not guilty for acts they commit.

[honest_joe]

Could it be due to our sub-conscious mind? When we are hypnotized we can be made to do strange things against our character. Also sleep walkers,although not fully conscious, behave at another level.

[weggiewabbit]

heathfield, you make a good point there I think. A nightmare will wake you up. I get very few of them, fortunately, but at one time I used to dream quite often about falling from a great height, and I�d always wake up before I hit the ground!

Another thing which puzzles me is ... why is it that you can sometimes awake during a dream (which seemed very real at the time), but remember nothing about it? I think it�s because the brain sort of goes off at a tangent and there�s no logical thread to it which you can interpret in a waking state.

[zebra]

I don't know if this is good or bad, but I can tell myself it is a dream and decide to wake up or sometimes, I let it carry on and try to control it. i.e if being chased or scared of something, I let it catch up with me or face whatever I am scared of, then I know its a dream.

Ocassionally this doesn't happen and I have woken up totally relieved that I was dreaming and sometimes the opposite if a happy dream.

I have had vivid dreams since about 18months old!

No wonder I am always shattered!!!!!!!!!! Some nights its like watching tv all night.