alt Hacker NewsIs there much evidence we use dreams to pre-emptively simulate scenarios?
Dreaming seems much more likely to be neurological tidying and emotional reprocessing. Helpful for identifying and surfacing long term subconscious needs but not for planning.
My dreams would be precisely useless for making plans from, unless those plans were to involve being caught in public wrapped only in a towel. And even then, I'm not sure they'd be particularly helpful.
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algoth1 • today at 10:13 AM
There’s an hypothesis that states we dream so we don’t lose visual processing neural connections. Similar to what happens in blind people: visual processing neurons are recruited to other sensory tasks due to lack of stimulation. My ed. guess is that dreaming probably serves multiple purposes
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I agree, for me it dreaming was always reprocessing. The resimulation of scenarios part i mentioned can be over-assumption and it might be wrong. One thing i noticed is that sometimes i reprocess motoric movements after martial arts lessons, that was my main clue.