Why do we Dream - BBC Horizon

Horizon uncovers the secret world of our dreams. In a series of cutting-edge experiments and personal stories, we go in search of the science behind this most enduring mystery and ask: where do dreams come from? Do they have meaning? And ultimately, why do we dream?

What the film reveals is that much of what we thought we knew no longer stands true. Dreams are not simply wild imaginings but play a significant part in all our lives as they have an impact on our memories, the ability to learn, and our mental health. Most surprisingly, we find nightmares, too, are beneficial and may even explain the survival of our species.

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[purplederple]

PISS UNDER YOUR EYE LIDS!!!

[CooDocu]

@purplederple That's a very odd dream.

[SadDepressedClown]

since i started smoking ganja i couldnt remember any dreams for a long time then i quit smoking and started to dream agian

[srq6666]

i was dreaming throughout just woke up at the end!

[NeutralExistence]

@SadDepressedClown

Same, its something that would be very helpful to trauma victims, who don't want to remember their dreams.

[OurFadedGarden]

Lucid dreaming was easy for me to learn. I heard about it when I was a kid and decided to give it a try. I would tell myself that I would remember that I was dreaming while I was dreaming. I took only a few nights till I was able to know I was dreaming and manipulate my dreams to some degree. I used to try to stop a nightmare, but if I couldn't I used to wake myself up by shaking my head once very hard and saying firmly WAKE UP! I used to fly all the time and once swam to the bottom of the ocean

[iorixs]

@D8tzmanu that is one open door

[D8tzmanu]

@iorixs i dont agree with you in allot of things you say but one thing is for sure the universe is to precise to be formed from evolution or a bigbang sum one show me were intelligibly design ever come from chaos when has a motor for a car been created from a grenade going off when has a super computer evolved from a calculator anyone????

[D8tzmanu]

@SadDepressedClown wow thats soo true me too i smoked 5years thought there was sumin wrong wif me now iv quit 5months an im dreaming again

[manicbabyshambles123]

@iorixs Who is going to take your word for this? You obviously have issues.

[KajiRider1997]

Frequently I dream about parallel worlds, mostly about ones that are better off then this one.

Other then that there's some messed up shit in my dreams... *presses play*

[Redflowers9]

parietal lobe... whoa oh whoa ohoh!! this is what dreaaaaaaams are made of!!!

[StannSSS]

Whats with all the whispering? This shit isn't supposed to be scary!

[EnglishRuggers25]

Lucid dreaming? what a load of bullshit. Its on the same par has astrology and religion.

[ForForm]

@iorixs Sorry m8. Not gonna continue with this. I prefer a conversation partner with an open mind.

[TheMrjake92]

@iorixs such a load of bull shit

[FEELIN2FLY]

o my fuccin god at 53 mins in...i am sumtimes aware im havin a nightmare still scary but the first think Ithat comes to mind wen im havin one is... how do I wake the fuck up dam. dis shit crazy

[FEELIN2FLY]

@5:30... I do that 2 out of 5 times..

[iorixs]

@TheMrjake92 God is going to end this creation in a reversal of the creative process that began it some 6000 yrs ago. this is not doctrine. this is fact. the world is filled with evil, obscenity, immorality, violence. there are kids who inject substances that cause the flesh to rot off of their bones. their are children locked in institutions and deliberately starved to death in some expression of devotion to evil. masonic organizations encourage disasters to advance its members etc

[TheMrjake92]

@iorixs your a fucking fool god is not real get a fucking grip man DICK!!!!!

[iorixs]

@ForForm im dutch too. holland used to be a nice christian nation but now its degenerate beyond expression. i used to be an atheist but i have deprogrammed myself and have come to realize that modern cosmology and materialistic "reason" is deliberately false and meant to corrupt and violate civilized order. copernicanism, darwinism, freudianism and big bang cosmology are a massive fraud meant to chain people in a limited 1 dimensional perception. chain and shackled, freedom choked

[ForForm]

This truly helped me with figuring out where the problems of one the kids at my work come from. Fears just before sleeping, no sense of rest when waking up, nightmares that continue while awake. Thanks for uploading ;)

[ForForm]

@iorixs You have been indoctrinated quite well. Kudos to your priest. Please start sentences like that with words like 'I believe', because I think your statement shows you aren't capable of thinking for yourself anymore. I use dream analysis and sleep observation on kids to solve strong, sometimes irrational, fears and I have absolutely no believe in God. (at least not in the common way) I am not a doctor or scientist, just someone interested in the subconscious (Bad spelling? I'm Dutch...)

[iorixs]

@mrkukkmrkukk not likely

[mrkukkmrkukk]

Dreams are inserted in our brains by the crab-people

[iorixs]

dreams are communications from the other side of death. many dreams are communications from God, others from the angelic sphere. it has nothing to do with evolution or one dimensional materialism with which bbc is preoccupied and not permitted to think beyond

[ABilek20]

@SadDepressedClown really whenever I'm high I have intense dreams

[sofhuamay]

you should have your own horror movie