Science News:
What do dreams mean to you? Are they random images strewn together with occasional story lines your brain simple pulls together trying to make sense of the nonsense? Do they contain messages from God, or the great beyond?
Science News reported on a study just released. They found:
Ideas that dreams come from the brain’s random output or are essential for daily problem-solving or for weeding out the routine clutter in one’s mind appeal to [only] a minority of people, the scientists say.
In one experiment, participants reported feeling closer to a personal friend after imagining a dream in which their friend defended them, versus imagining a dream in which that friend betrayed them.
“Our results suggest that the dreams most likely to affect our daily lives and relationships are the dreams that accord with our existing beliefs and desires,” Morewedge says.
So, whether dreams are messages or just random, we tend to pay attention more when the dream supports our desires. Does that mean any messages we perceive in the dreams are merely imposed by our waking desires? As in, we see what we want to see. Like making voices out of static, or seeing ghosts in the corners of our vision?
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