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Dreams involving dangerous situations are very common and the Primitive Instinct Rehearsal Theory holds that the content of a dream is significant to its purpose.
Whatever you are running from a lion or fighting with a ninja, these dreams help you practice your fight or flight instincts. Also, not everytime these dreams have to be nightmares. Sometimes we can rehearse our reproductive instinct as well.
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During REM sleeping, the neocortex reviews the neural connections and dumbs the unnecessary ones.
Each dream, including nightmares contains images from our day-to-day life. Sigmund Freud states that each thing we dream has a symbolic meaning which lead to the fulfilment of our subconscious wishes.
The Continual Activation Theory proposes that the dreams result from your brain's need to constantly consolidate the long-term memories.
Not being limited to the rules of conventional logic, the mind can create infinite scenarios to help you find solutions that you wouldn't think conscious.
To increase the performance on some certain tasks, sleep is good, but dreaming while sleeping is better.
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