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context: I've read somewhere, that the brain may, in fact, be even more active during sleep. It's your body, that's having rest. >
  
  When you sleep your brain consolidates itself and essentially reformats, putting memories and experiences into different places in the brain. >
  
  The Neurologist has spoken! >
  
  I honestly think some bits can be connected to what to experience daily. I have wild dreams, but I also have lots of stress, and a stressed brain comes up with crazy shit. I don’t take any of my dreams seriously, I just assume it’s related to what’s been on my mind and my brain is getting creative. >
  
  I agree and disagree. You can't infer that "dreaming about teeth falling out" = anxiety in daily life. I think dreams are your brain shuffling a deck of experiences and scenarios, and dumping your consciousness into them. However, in doing so, I think dreams simulate different situations, allowing your brain to have some experience in case the situation arises. For instance, I often dream of zombie apocalypse, which will never happen. But if it were to, I would have some experience.
  Also, have you never woken up feeling affected by a dream? Like you fell in love with someone in the dream and you wake up feeling sadness at the loss of love? It might not have some profound meaning, but it had some meaning to you. >
  
  About to say this, if you've ever woken up in a bad mood, it's most likely emotions running over from a bad dream. Which you may not even remember, making things more confusing >
  
  Always hate how fast you forget dreams, especially when they seemed meaningful. Also, how when you try to explain an awesome dream to someone, it always sounds lame. >
  
  I don't think dreams have some mystical meaning, but I do think that they can emulate how you're doing when conscious. Every time I'm really, really stressed or going through extreme bouts of anxiety and sadness, my dreams simulate these conscious feelings by giving me nightmares about the things I fear the most.
  So, imo, it's not necessarily just random scenes with no meaning all the time because dreams can often be related to your daily life and daily emotions >
  
  My pet peeve too.  I absolutely hate when someone decides to tell me about a dream they had the night before.  I don’t care, don’t want to waste my time hearing about it. >
  
  I have heard stories of boxers having dreams about fighting people on a consistent basis, which may mean their brains are running scenarios during dreams in order to prepare for real life. >
  
  Lol but all my punches in dreams feel like I'm gently swinging in jello. >
  
  RIP if unpopular opinion. Of course there isn't meaning or magic in dreams lmao. >
  
  I believe when we die, we live eternally in a perpetual dream-like world based on our greatest desires. >
  
  My personal experiences disagree. I've had numerous dreams that turned out to ve glimpses of the future and I suspect the others are glimpses into my life in parallel universes. >
  
  Anecdotal nonsense. >
  
  Nah, you just lack an open mind.
  One time, when I on a month-long vacation from work, I dreamed that on my first day of returning to my job, I was assigned to work in a specific area. Then when I actually returned on my first back (a few days later) when the vacation was over, I ended up working in that same exact spot. If dreams lack meaning as you say, how do you explain that?
  There are also numerous other times that I experience deja vu moments of things that have occurred in past dreams and actually came to pass later on in life. So there is DEFINITELY more to dreams than them being mere figments of the brain's imagination. >
  
  There's a whole industry in Africa that deals with dream interpretation and connection to the next life and this life. Check out Sangomas and witchdoctors...
  This is just a comment, I don't agree or disagree. I don't know enough to make an informed opinion either way. >
  
  Who would thought think the witch doctor capital of the world would churn out nonsense snake oil