• Question: Why do we dream?

    Asked by anon-192243 to Sophie, Simon, Obi, Kelly on 14 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Kelly Rushton

      Kelly Rushton answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      We dream when our brains are processing our thoughts and things that have happened through the day; I think of it as if its filing everything away into our memories.

    • Photo: Sophie Morse

      Sophie Morse answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      We dream because our brain makes connections between what we’ve thought and thing that are already in our brain. They are stories that our brain creates while we sleep. Maybe the brain otherwise gets a bit bored of sleeping for 8 hours 😉

    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      It is the way our brains sort through accumulated stimuli so we are fresh the next day (to hunt berries and run away from sabre toothed tigers).

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