Why do we dream in metaphor?

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Dreaming evolved to resolve emotions that haven't been de-aroused during the day (the expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming).

However the question remained, why do some emotions NOT get dearoused during dreaming and result in mental health problems such as phobias/trauma/molar memories or PTSD?

Joe Griffin, who proposed the expectation fulfilment theory of dreaming, unravels this question at the Human Givens Institute conference 2007.

Read more about why we dream here: http://www.why-we-dream.com

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  • everyone should read the 'Human Givens' book. It's really amazing and answers many big life long questions

  • i love dreaming , if we could all record our dreams there would be some proper class films in the cinema, iv had some mental ones ! lol

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  • interesting 

  • I dream all the time but there not always memories. I have dreams of the near future and within a year it really happens, I dream of things I wish would happen, I dream of things that are nonsense like me flying or driving a car crazy like and not getting in trouble at all and I dream nightmares of random bad things. But mostly about this guy I really like but still why do I dream some of these things?

  • ATHEISTS CAN'T EXPLAIN WHY WE HAVE FEELINGS CHECK THIS VIDEO

    watch?v=EbTdClePK94

  • ok can he awnser why i can feel everything i can do in my dreams?

  • Why do we dream in metaphor?

    wat a question

  • @RebalArts ok, so, memories in the sense that the brain has kept a record of what you FELT. The brain uses this record of what we FELT as a template to dream in METAPHOR. So having mental crap in your dream does not mean that you experienced it in life and of course it is not a false memory (you're starting to delve a bit into hypnosis).

  • @cosmicmanik Why?? His theories of dreaming have been completely discredited.

  • hmmmm..... not sure how i feel about this one

  • @thelostlevels send it to me

  • @deanmullen10 wow never thought of it like that..nice!!

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