Thread: Why don't we realize that we are dreaming when miracles seems normal :)

Its difficult to realize we are dreaming when all of these things happen because in a dream nearly all of your brain is active, except the logic center. Because there is no logic to control our dreams many crazy unrealistic things can happen. Without logic anything makes sense.

What sugar said. The logic center of your brain shuts off therefore you don't think logical.

There's also a statistic that 90% of all behavior is habit. Since we are usually even less aware in dreams, maybe that's an explanation too.

well said sugarglider11

The logic center shutting down makes sense. Could it also be that we see so many bizarre things in movies that when we see bizarre things in our dreams, we don't question them?

I wonder if lucid dreaming was more common in societies 1000 years ago when there wasn't so much imagery available.

If the logic center is shut down, how do we know to do reality checks?

Originally Posted by Kroy

If the logic center is shut down, how do we know to do reality checks?

There are two reasons that I can think of for that, one is that It's a habit, I doubt. The other is that the logic center only shuts down almost completely.

Originally Posted by Zenman

The logic center shutting down makes sense. Could it also be that we see so many bizarre things in movies that when we see bizarre things in our dreams, we don't question them?

I wonder if lucid dreaming was more common in societies 1000 years ago when there wasn't so much imagery available.

I would really like to know this too. I'm thinking that most of your dreams might actually be using the same part of the brain that you use when watching a movie; you understand what's going on, you even feel involved in it, but you never actually place your own body or yourself in the story or what is happening. I see a lot of weird stuff, as we all do (especially internet users ), so I wouldn't be surprised if this is making it harder!


One thing I have noticed is that I can play games for hours on end and only dream about faint concepts from them, but if I play Warcraft 3, sure as hell isn't real, I will dream about it. This hasn't led to me being lucid, but I'm working on it . Regardless, I'm not sure why this is happening, but perhaps it is because I have played the game for years on end? Is it the colourful graphics? The multiplayer part of it? I really don't know, but it would be a fascinating study.

Originally Posted by Ethereal

I would really like to know this too. I'm thinking that most of your dreams might actually be using the same part of the brain that you use when watching a movie; you understand what's going on, you even feel involved in it, but you never actually place your own body or yourself in the story or what is happening. I see a lot of weird stuff, as we all do (especially internet users ), so I wouldn't be surprised if this is making it harder!

Actually, you use more of your brain while you are sleeping than you do while watching television. The brain actually is really just keeping you alive while you're in front of the TV...