About Dreams

Dreams are really what you choose them to be. Although nobody seems to have come up with any more than good theories, dreams are one of those things that many people have figured out enough on an empirical basis to put them to good use.

Here’s another way of thinking about it in a scientific way: Scientists know a lot about Quantum Mechanics, for example. They have theories about it and have put it to good use for a variety of electronic devices. But when it gets down to brass tacks, Quantum Mechanics is really just a convenient working model which may be wholly inaccurate if we were able to know more about the underlying rules. Physicists argue about super strings and other possibilities, but when you dig too deep, things literally begin to fall about due to observation.

Dreams are like this. I imagine that if you put them under the microscope somehow, examining neurons and synapses with Scanning Tunneling Microscopes or some large scale Quantum Detector, we’d likely “collapse the waveform” altogether in a Quantum Mechanical sense.

For now, the question of “Why we Dream” probably is less important than the fact that most of us dream and there seems to be some real practical value in it unless the person is plagued by nightmares. Psychology aside, many people get results (Thomas Edison for example) because of REM Sleep and dreams, so were scientists to study the capabilities of the dream state, perhaps we’d be able to move forward with something more concrete.