![]() True, dreams often contain a mix of emotions and things we have previously experienced, but in dreams, there are often people, faces, and interactions that the dreamer has never experienced before. They must likewise be far more than the activation of random memories already contained in the brain’s neurocircuitry. Turning information into a multidimensional tapestryĭreams are far more than the spontaneous, random firing of neurons that some insist they are. The result of this magnificent orchestration is our never-ending ability to experience sensations in a four-dimensional world. During both dreams and waking hours, our minds collapse probability waves to generate a physical reality that comes complete with a functioning body. Whether awake or dreaming, we are experiencing the same process even if it produces qualitatively different realities. But there are interesting commonalities that give us clues as to how our consciousness operates. Since the realms of dreams and wakeful perception are usually classified separately-with only one of them regarded as “real”-they’re rarely part of the same discussion. But you might not have suspected that this same process of fashioning a seemingly external 3-D reality is the one underlying dreams. Dreams and everyday reality are the same processĪs we go about our lives, we take for granted the way our minds put everything together because the process is effortless, and its underlying mechanisms are baked-in, hidden, and automatic.
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