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cdn2wheeler · 10-13-2007, 07:31 PM

I can tell you why, but you're not gonna like it.

Dreams are a random firing of electrical discharges and chemical surges in your head that take place overnight. As much as we may like to think they have special meanings and maybe even a bridge to the supernatural, there isn't any evidence to suggest that.

The only way that our brain can make heads or tails out of these random chemical and electrical events is to give them a reference to some sort of psuedo-reality, based only loosely on the people and events around us. That's why they're so freakin' weird. But here's the thing: As we are experiencing them, we don't actually perceive them as having images & textures & noises & all the rest. Our brain only puts those things together after we awaken. We can only understand & interpret our dreams in our memories of them, not as they happen.

So, when the phone rings at what seems to be an important part of the dream, it's because we're jolted out of that dream-state and immediately start to make sense of it with our rational minds. But since dreams are not rational, they appear in our memory as odd, intense or just plain weird.

Toldja you weren't gonna like it. Sorry...

10-13-2007, 07:31 PM	#4 (permalink)
cdn2wheeler Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,016	I can tell you why, but you're not gonna like it. Dreams are a random firing of electrical discharges and chemical surges in your head that take place overnight. As much as we may like to think they have special meanings and maybe even a bridge to the supernatural, there isn't any evidence to suggest that. The only way that our brain can make heads or tails out of these random chemical and electrical events is to give them a reference to some sort of psuedo-reality, based only loosely on the people and events around us. That's why they're so freakin' weird. But here's the thing: As we are experiencing them, we don't actually perceive them as having images & textures & noises & all the rest. Our brain only puts those things together after we awaken. We can only understand & interpret our dreams in our memories of them, not as they happen. So, when the phone rings at what seems to be an important part of the dream, it's because we're jolted out of that dream-state and immediately start to make sense of it with our rational minds. But since dreams are not rational, they appear in our memory as odd, intense or just plain weird. Toldja you weren't gonna like it. Sorry...