A Different State Of The Mind

Dreaming is just thinking but in a different brain state. Defining its purpose depends on what you’re dreaming about.

We agonize about many of the same things when we’re sleeping as when we’re awake, like relationships, work issues, hopes and fears, she says. Dreams are different, but the content is often the same.

Visual areas of the brain are much more active during dream states as are emotional centres. While linear logic and language areas are damped down.