Thread: How my dreams form!

Well our dream content tends to be a mish-mosh of things but the mind basically takes everything it experienced during the day and pulls from that for our dreams. It could be that something you didn't pay much attention to you didn't focus on because you don't like it or don't understand it so during your dreams your brain is trying to figure out why by presenting it to your mind? One theory of dreams is that they exist to solve problems and keep our minds occupied while we sleep by compounding the information of the day and organizing it in memory. Perhaps your mind is trying to determine why you weren't more interested in something by seeing how you react to it in your dreams?

Personally I never really notice my dreams revolving around something I paid little attention to or something I paid particular attention to - my dreams seem to pull content from all over the place. Interesting though.

Originally Posted by DougD720

It could be that something you didn't pay much attention to you didn't focus on because you don't like it or don't understand it so during your dreams your brain is trying to figure out why by presenting it to your mind? One theory of dreams is that they exist to solve problems and keep our minds occupied while we sleep by compounding the information of the day and organizing it in memory. Perhaps your mind is trying to determine why you weren't more interested in something by seeing how you react to it in your dreams?

That could be it. Or perhaps my mind is looking at these situations during the day as "incomplete", and tries to complete them during the night. Either way, I find it interesting.

It happened last night again. I dreamt of two people I only mentioned once to someone during the day, and forgot about the conversation.