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Week 7 [14.05-20.05.2018] Why Do We Dream?

Well, boys and girls, I know you love your cozy bed and the moment of the reunion with it, so I invite you to watch this funny video about dreams and share your thoughts about the topic presented.


Do you support the opinion of the authors of the video or maybe you see the dreams as something paranormal?;) Can you tell us about some of your amazing dreams? Or maybe you know, how to control your dreams? Let's discuss it.

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Iman Masjedi said…
I would like to talk about Déjà vu's dream.
this happened to me a lot of times and that was so interesting because it shows the power of human brain and unknown part of the brain.
Have you ever experienced Dejawo? A kind of bleary feeling when you are in a position to get to know you. A scene in a restaurant happens exactly as you remember. The world moves like a ballet dance that you have been designing for your movements. But it's not possible that this chain of events has happened based on your previous experience, because you have never had food in this restaurant before. You are the first to eat an oysters.
Anna Koca said…
I think that dreams are the reflections of your own thoughts that you had during the day. Nightmares, accordingly, are reflections of your fears, of your darker side, of what you are afraid you might become. Potential fornicators will dream of cheating on their partners, people who are afraid they can lose their job will dream that they are homeless, and so on. Dreams and nightmares reflect the part of us that is normally hidden to us. That is probably why people write dream diaries and try to analyze their dreams with help of some dream manuals. Myself, I am a heavy sleeper and never remember after waking up what the dream was about.
Unknown said…
As it was mentioned in the comment above, dreams are simple mind tricks that our subconscious play on us. I'm personally don't think that dreams have some kind of paranormal nature behind them, they just our brain's response to what is going on in our lives and around us. Sometimes they really can help us figure out how to find a solution to some daily problems and even help us to create some brilliant ideas.
I usually forget my dreams after first 5 minutes I woke up, so I don't remember most of them.
I think the only way to control your dreams is to know how to control your attitude and reaction to things around us.
Maciej Główka said…
In my opinion dreams aren't something paranormal. I think they are just a mixture of our life experience, thoughts, etc.
Unfortunately, I forget my dreams minutes after I wake up. However I remember that some of them were really crazy.
Can we control our dreams? I think we can't. At least I don't know anyone who can ;) I think it is impossible.
Unknown said…
I have never thought about my dreams. Sometimes my dreams look paranormal. I’m really not able to remember my dreams at the moment. I like dreams in which I realize that I’m dreaming and I’m able to control them but I haven’t dreamt about it for a long time. I hate paralysis dreams. From time to time, it happens to me
I agree that dreams are just the reflections of own thoughts and all the situations that happened to us in this day or some days before. It’s just a logical conclusion that our brain implicitly made. We don’t only see nightmares while we are dreaming. Our brain is so flexible that it’s able to find a solution to a problem we have been thinking for the whole day or recreate some positive emotions we have experienced. That’s why I don’t consider dreams as something paranormal.

I can’t even remember some remarkable dreams which I had. Maybe it’s because I don’t pay so much attention to them or I just simply don’t understand them because they were too blurious.

I don’t know such people that are able to do so. I am not able to do it as well, thus I don’t have what to say about it.
Marcin Mróz said…
I agree with the authors of this video that dreaming is a natural process happening in our brains during sleep. However, deja vu dreams are something that is really interesting and a bit inexplicable. You dream about something, then completely forget about it and one day, sometimes even after some years, you realize that you've already seen some specific situation or scene that is happening right now. It's really weird and it happened to me several times.
Unknown said…
Do you support the opinion of the authors of the video or maybe you see the dreams as something paranormal?
Well... Yes, it's scientific problem and it is nothing that couldn't be studied by researchers. But I hope I would never be asked for them to help with it, because I'm afraid of what my dreams could look like.

Can you tell us about some of your amazing dreams?
Good for me - I don't remember any of my dreams after few minutes after waking up. But I remember only that, they are strange and crazy. And I never dreamed about falling down.

Or maybe you know, how to control your dreams?
No, I don't know it and I don't thing anyone could control their dreams with anything. And most those controllers are in fact not even sleeping during those "state".
Maciej Nowak said…
I believe that dreams are shaped by experiences, fears and desires you have in your life and can be explained by science. I had dreams that were continuation of older dreams that I experienced weeks, months or even years before. I have read about some techniques of remaining consciousness in a dream. However, I have never tried to use them.
I think that it is a bit of both, especially as long as it is not described and scientifically understanded fully, it is pleasant to think about them as something mystical. I tried to write down my dreams at some point, and the most interesting thing that i found about htem is that locations can repeat themselves or are somehow linked, so it is possible to create a map of your subconciusness if it is one. About controlling, a lot of people say that you should understand fully that you are sleeping and after that you will gain full controll, but i never achieved something like that.
Jakub Lisicki said…
Videos made to "spark our curiosity" are pretty often a waste of time. This one, however, isn't. It is crucial to know some of the facts about our body and how dangerous it is to be deprived of the sleep. There are way too many people who think it isn't anything too serious, but all of them are wrong. It can get you in a really bad condition - both physically and psychologically. We should learn to respect the boundaries set by our own endurance, and don't try to ignore any of them.
When it comes to the symbols which we see in our dreams - I don't really put much effort into trying to understand them, but I know that they can be useful sometimes. It's what our brain tries to show us through abstraction, after all.
Unknown said…
It is perfectly normal in my opinion to see dreams and I imagine it is critical to your normal functioning since our body is very greedy regarding resources and wouldn't spend that much energy(up to 20%) on something that is useless.
Once I was a captan of the ship and with my crew we where sailing across the ocean and suddenly fall of the end of the world it was scary and after a short fall we start flying into the space as if our warp engince start running and then I woke up.
It happend to me a few times when I was able to controll myself in a dream. Unfortunutly it is so random and quickly goes away
Vladlen Kyselov said…
I think that seeing dreams is a normal process in a brain cycle to process all information that it consumed during last few days. Unfortunately, I don`t remember almost any of my dreams that I would like to remember, but I remember some dreams where some episodes from it happened with me in the nearest future. It was really strange when after a night in the period while I was still able to reproduce my dream for a while somehow it has stuck inside my brain and on the next week exactly the same happened to me. It was about 7 min episode of conversation with my friends in school.
Unknown said…
Dreams occur naturally. Scientists have trouble understanding why the occur but saying that they are paranormal like ghosts is weird. Firstly, they exist. Everyone can agree with that. Secondly, they can be explained scientifically.
I don’t remember my dreams and can’t control them. Sometimes I have a brief memory of a dream, but I instantly forget as I don’t pay much attention to it. However, I still remember one memorable dream from my childhood. Where I was dreaming that water was overflowing from bathtub and when I woke up I immediately run to the bathroom to turn the water off.
Marcin Górski said…
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Marcin Górski said…
Dreaming is very hard topic for me but I believe that is something which is made for our daily experience and situations. I had time when I was dreaming everyday - it was often about horrors but not only. It's hard to describe my best dreams because it was a long time ago but as I said, scary situation represented a major proportion of my dreams and I'm very happy that I don't remember it :P I think that the most important is our mind... for example, if you have an very important exam tomorrow you can think about it a whole day and it can be normal that you can dream about it.
Foodocado said…
I think the dreams reflects our daily thoughts. Personally I can't remember any of my dreams.
Unknown said…
I think I know what you mean and that feeling is impressive, I can't remember exactly how it was, but I have experienced it for sure. Deja vu is an interesting topic itself, and deja vu dreams just prove that our brains works amazing not only while we are awake but also when we are sleeping.
Unknown said…
Dreams is a very hard topic for me. It's hard for me to agree with the author.

Often when I dream something cool then I wake up and remember nothing. It's hard for me to say something. But I often have nightmares too.

I don't know how to control my dreams. I watched movies on this subject and tried to do that. Unfortunately, I couldn't do it.
Unknown said…
I am agree with your theory, but sometimes you face your fears in an indirect form. It hide behind the images, which refer to the things, that you are scared of, but here we are dealing with psychology. For example you can dream about breaking the glass before some important exam, and it could mean that you are afraid of the failure, so you dream another kind of failure, you know. I have heard that if you often see dreams it means that you don't sleep very well, so you are the lucky one:)
Unknown said…
Some days ago three different thing has happened to me during the day, and that night I had a dream, where all the three things has mixed together in a whole, and that was crazy and strange. So I agree with your opinion. I have had some remarkable dreams, but when I was younger. Now I mostly have those reflections when my brain just reacts on what has happened in my life.
Jakub Nietupski said…
Dreams are probably nothing paranormal but we still can't fully understand their meaning. It will take much more effort learn why we neet sleep and how dreams are generated and it's a very interesting topic.
I can never remember my dreams. I could remember them back when I was younger but now I lost that ability. If anything, sometimes I remember emotions related to what I was dreaming - happiness, fear etc.
I heard about lucid dreaming technique and even tried to learn that from curiosity, but I haven't succeeded.
Unknown said…
Thanks for your story. I understand how absurdly can sound those dreams sometimes. I had a dream about people was eaten by a t-rex in a theater or when I was flying like a superman across the place like Mediamarkt in a slow motion, holding a roster in a box under my arm. So, you know... brain:)
Unknown said…
Usually when I have something important the next day I can't at all:D but I see what you mean. There is one kind of dream that I hate more than horror dreams. From time to time it happens to me - I see how I enter the elevator and push my button but I can't get to the floor I need. I keep on pressing that button but every time the door opens I see the wrong floor with the wrong number. It can last so long, and then I leave the elevator to use the stairs. And if I need the 5th floor, for example, I begin to ascend from the 4th and I could only get to the 6th, so I descend and see the 4th again, so I have never reached my floor in such dreams. I can't stand it.
Unknown said…
I have heard that people train every day to learn how to control it, they read plenty of books and spend much time. I wish I could manage it too, but, to tell the truth, I am not ready to spend so much time and afforts on it, so I would just like to hear to listen to people who experienced it. And it would be enough for me.
Unknown said…
You know, when I was a kid I could remember almost every dream. And the dreams itself were more expressive and memorable - bright colors, fairy places and creatures, flying. I don't know if it depends on how busy we have became and have lost the ability to dream as children, or it is a biological process, and the brain just concentrate less on that information. But I miss the dreams from my childhood.
Unknown said…
Once in my life during the sleep I had a dream like I have left my body and was floating above it watching myself sleeping. It wasn't scary at all, but still the strangest dream I have ever had. I don't connect it with something paranormal, just a mind trick. But it still was quite impressive.
Unknown said…
Well, as we can see such kind of dreams from the future are not very popular. It is really very-very interesting. I don't remember something like that has happened to me. Did you try to find some information about it? Maybe you have some superpowers?;)
Unknown said…
And was the water running for real?
Unknown said…
There are so many theories about dreams, one of which I love it, even though it is hard to prove the reliability of this theory, there is an opinion that our Dreams will show us where we see certain moments from the life of our ancestors. We can not say it for sure, but if remember dreams what you are often seen maybe you can take some parallels from your ancestors.
before when I had not a bicycle, I had a very real dream that I got a bicycle I'm feeling like that whole weeks now I have, however, woke up, so of course I realized that this is just a dream and i was very disappointed, actually it's a bad dream, but then to think about this as far as I recall the total favorably be disposed when I remember how happy I was to sleep at the moment.
It is difficult to control your dreams, but maybe when you wake up the morning and then sleep again, then you're half-sober and more easily controlled
Unknown said…
There are so many theories about dreams, one of which I love it, even though it is hard to prove the reliability of this theory, there is an opinion that our Dreams will show us where we see certain moments from the life of our ancestors. We can not say it for sure, but if remember dreams what you are often seen maybe you can take some parallels from your ancestors.
before when I had not a bicycle, I had a very real dream that I got a bicycle I'm feeling like that whole weeks now I have, however, woke up, so of course I realized that this is just a dream and i was very disappointed, actually it's a bad dream, but then to think about this as far as I recall the total favorably be disposed when I remember how happy I was to sleep at the moment.
It is difficult to control your dreams, but maybe when you wake up the morning and then sleep again, then you're half-sober and more easily controlled
Unknown said…
For me, dreams are nothing unusual or paranormal. I think that dreams like the one we have are simply our thoughts or situations like the ones we think a lot about.
I've heard you have to wake up to dreams in order to remember them, and I'm usually woken up by an alarm clock, so I rarely remember dreams.
I think dreams are similar to thoughts and if we learn to control thoughts, there is a good direction to control dreams.
Unknown said…
No, I do not relate dreams to paranormal phenomena. The strangest dream, which even surprised my imagination was the coach that was harnessed with the shrimps, and I was riding on it on oranges. Still sometimes there are very realistic dreams, but on subjects "beyond life and intergalactic ships." In general, there are special techniques that help create lucid dreams. But such techniques are used by people who want to be able to simulate situations and find solutions during sleep. But I have enough time to think during the day and let me have a better view of shrimp.
Unknown said…
I think that autors have very realistic opinion about this subjec. I watch many films like this about sleep and dreams and it's rather very popular point of view.
I rather don't remember my dreams. I had one last time when i was on war and i was winner. It can be connected with restless time in my live. If it comes about controlling dreams i've heard about lucid dream. It's wreid as i have heard. People can consciously start dreaming and controlling their dreams. It's connected with using the brain to a greater extent. But also i've heard that it's very dangerous for our health.
Well, in highschool i had massive interest in controlling my dreams, i never really understanded it but sometimes i feel like i know im dreaming. If i do, in most of these dreams i wake up but, if i don't oh boy! I somehow control it and it's great. Sometimes i'm even mad that it was only a dream. But for that i have never actually done any reaserch about what dreams really are but what i can tell is that, i would really agree with opinion presented in this movie.
Great topic to discuss! I fully agree with the authors, that our dreams are controllable and not a mystic. I don't have a chance to remember it in a perfect way to share it after my sleep. The latest dream i have in a front of my eyes is connected with my friends who are helping me to get out of the cave. I would say, that it is not a good dream to be in real life. I have never tried to control my dreams but i want it to do.
Unknown said…
I agree with the statements pointed out in the video and consider dreams as impulses which are connected with events and memories by our brain.
When I was a child I used to have nightmares - most often in those nightmares I was chased by some creatures. Currently, I can’t remember any of my dreams after waking up.
For me dreams are result of not having time to think everything over during the da. When u re concerned about and u dont find a "solution/ answer" to it before u go to sleep your brain cant just give up on it and continues working creating most of the time imaginary solutions. That's why we dream about things we re scared of and things we strive for so much.
its been a long time since ive been "dreaming" since most of the time i cant just sleep if im not done with the topic anyway so when i finally go to sleep my brain is either "exhausted" or has nothing to work on at that moment.
There have been studies trying to comprehend our imaginary influence / control over our dreams. Im all behind that when u feel like u have control over your dreams it means your brain started working again and your body is just too exhausted to "wake up" as in you are on a edge of waking up anyway.
As much as we like our nice dreams and hate the bad ones i dont think there is anything special about them to be concerned about in real life.
I almost agree with author's opinion. Why do we have this kind of visual work of our brain? The answer is really simple, just because we all have been catching the same things long day and then we are trying to generate "dreams" during the night.
Did you hear about sleeping not longer than 2 -3 hours? It's very interesting and so many people doing this, someone can say that you seeing an unreal thing which you never see and someone can't catch some visual form of dreams. Sometimes I can see routine dreams but it appears really rare.
Illia Kalinin said…
Dreams aren't paranormal, it is a chance for your brain to take a break and sometime overthink some given information. I can't say that i see dreams regularly, but when I do it usually connected with some my purposes or "dreams". No, I don't know, but It'd be really cool if people learn how control dreaming and we will be able to operate some information while dreaming, for example for cryptocurrency, can you imagine these farms?
Patryk Górski said…
Dreams are strange. Sometimes it's like very realistic thing, and then when you are waking up you think that this dream is definitely true. Also sometimes it's like absurdal joke, which makes you think "what the hell is wrong with me", when your brain can "produce" situations like in this dream. I have a lot of different dreams - sometimes about my life, future and I can see myself as an succesful person. But sometimes I have the biggest nightmares of my life - when this kind of dream ends I am thankful that it's over. I do not know how to control my dreams, but I will try to do it - it sounds amazing for me
What I've "discovered" about dreams is that if you listen to a song you like overnight with low volume, you'll be more likely to be able to control the dreams and they will be positive dreams. There is just one con. The song you listened to while asleep will be unrecognizable after that night. For 2 months or even more. Try this I dare you.
Unknown said…
1. I don't think that dreams is a something paranormal and for me it is normal reaction of our bodies which is widely descripted by the science.

2. I can tell you that I have experimented with lucid dreams but I can't recommend it for anyone. Of course it is very exciting and intensive feeling but I had lucid dreams all the time! I was tired after sleep because I feel that I don't loose my consciousness for one minute which makes me very tired. Now I don't have much dreams and I am glad about it because I am relaxed and fresh after my sleep.
Unknown said…
Well, personally for me dreams are something paranormal. I see them really rarely, so it's hard for me to tell something about my dreams. I don't remember most of them. And if I remember, then for sure it will be a nightmare. I don't know how to control them, but i would really like to! That would be amazing!
Unknown said…
It's kinda hard to talk about this topic. For sure dreams are special. Usually I remember my dreams. Some time ago I had a crazy one - I was closed in a big mansion with cannibals... That was scary as hell! And you know what? Few days before this dream, I was playing the latest Resident Evil, which is about cannibal-family. As I said - it was scary, but on the other hand I enjoyed it.
Can I control my dreams? - yes.
Have you ever heard about lucid dreaming? I had it many times and I know when it's coming when I'm falling asleep. It's a weird feeling, especially at the very first times.
Illia Lukisha said…
Do you support the opinion of the authors of the video or maybe you see the dreams as something paranormal?;)
I think that the scientists know a lot about how our brain works, bit actually there are a lot, that we need to discover, e.g. why we yawning? Human brain is the most sophisticated piece in the world, and I think we know just a little part.

Can you tell us about some of your amazing dreams? Or maybe you know, how to control your dreams?
When I was a kid, I oftenly fall from high canyons, bridges, etc. and then landed into bed, but feeling was so real. My mom was saying that I'm was growing at these moments.
Cecylia said…
The worst dreams I have ever had. I have been buried alive and before that someone stabbed me in my stomach but I was not bleeding. I was feeling everything but I did not wake up what makes me angry because usually people wake up in moments like that – falling from sky you wake up but not me. I will hit the ground and dream continues. Once I was tied to tree, someone set me on fire and was cutting my limbs by chainsaw. Yeah as you think I did not wake up. The most terrible nightmares were one year ago. I had same dream for 3 nights. Some kind of demon possessed me and for 3 nights he tried to go out of me. And I was waking up in the same time – 2:47. At third night he got out and the nightmares stopped.

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