Thread: Think About This

Do you think that when you have a dream, your brain makes it up as you go along? or is it like a movie, where it is all planned out before it actually happens?

omgomgomg you're scaring me

Im not to sure about that...My mind(consciously) can't think of anything fast enough to go in a straight, continuous line without breaks(Like when I have to write an essay I might have a couple seconds then I just sit there because I can't think of anything else). Maybe dreams might be made up of events that happened during the day but it is changed around...maybe....

whoa thats very possible. like it takes your day and distorts it to unrecognizable proportions.

I doubt that. Someone can sleep for three days straight, after all, at which point that kind of logic doesn't hold. I think that dreams are a combination of what happened during the day, what you saw on TV, what's been on your mind for a while, unconscious thoughts, that sort of thing.

I think it goes along with how you feel within your dream...I usually notice that what i expect to happen happens.

I doubt it's planned out beforehand. If that was the case, lucidity and dream control don't exist.

Of course, just because our minds make it up as we go doesn't mean it's not stable. If you're in the kitchen one second, you aren't going to flit to the mall the next, because it doesn't make sense to your brain. The brain probably bases what will happen next off of what is currently happening in the dream. This is how sequence is born.

Well im not saying i dont believe in control, but maybe the feeling of control is only an illusion because you know you're dreaming?