Do You Dream in the Past, Present, Or Future?
Many psychologists believe that dreams are all about a coalescing of the day's events, moving the information from short-term to long-term memory in a defragging information sort of way.
Whereas, it appears to be true that some of the dreams we have are about that, I would submit to you that some are forward thinking.
In fact, I would say that dreams are without time; past, present, and future.
However as I say that, I can tell you that there are people who disagree with me, including some very famous professors, theorists, and famous dead white men whose names we must memorize if we are to study psychology.
If you have a few moments I'd like to discuss this with you.
The reason I say that dreams are in the past, present, and future is through actual observations.
We know that if you are sleeping, and there are events going on around you while you are sleeping, fragments will end up in your dreams.
This is simply because the auditory part of the brain is always on.
Perhaps it was a survival tool that survived the evolutionary process.
After all, when humans are sleeping they might be attacked by a vicious animal, but if they heard the animal coming, they would wake up and could defend themselves.
That's a theory as well.
Thus, dreams can be set forth in the present, and involve what's going on in real-time.
In 1983 A.
Phillips stated that "Dreams are always in the past," but that seems rather absolute, how can we know that for sure, in fact, I think I disagree, rather strongly actually.
Not only for the reasons I cited above, and I will give Phillips some credit, because dreams do include the past, but they are not "always" in the past.
Further, it is possible to dream into the future, it may not be the actual future that occurs later, but the mind has an interesting way willing events to occur, using Inherent tools perhaps similar to psycho-cybernetics, which is what athletes use to envision victory before the sporting event.
Lastly, dreams seem to be no different at a subconscious level, then at the conscious level with regards to time.
Just as we cannot live in the future, we can set ourselves up and project ourselves into that future, just as we can in dreams.
We can also use our memory of the past to relive the past in our conscious mind and in our thoughts.
Just as we do in our dreams.
Now then, I ask you this simple question, and before you answer to yourself, I'd like you to please consider this; do you dream in the past, present, or future? Please think on it.
Whereas, it appears to be true that some of the dreams we have are about that, I would submit to you that some are forward thinking.
In fact, I would say that dreams are without time; past, present, and future.
However as I say that, I can tell you that there are people who disagree with me, including some very famous professors, theorists, and famous dead white men whose names we must memorize if we are to study psychology.
If you have a few moments I'd like to discuss this with you.
The reason I say that dreams are in the past, present, and future is through actual observations.
We know that if you are sleeping, and there are events going on around you while you are sleeping, fragments will end up in your dreams.
This is simply because the auditory part of the brain is always on.
Perhaps it was a survival tool that survived the evolutionary process.
After all, when humans are sleeping they might be attacked by a vicious animal, but if they heard the animal coming, they would wake up and could defend themselves.
That's a theory as well.
Thus, dreams can be set forth in the present, and involve what's going on in real-time.
In 1983 A.
Phillips stated that "Dreams are always in the past," but that seems rather absolute, how can we know that for sure, in fact, I think I disagree, rather strongly actually.
Not only for the reasons I cited above, and I will give Phillips some credit, because dreams do include the past, but they are not "always" in the past.
Further, it is possible to dream into the future, it may not be the actual future that occurs later, but the mind has an interesting way willing events to occur, using Inherent tools perhaps similar to psycho-cybernetics, which is what athletes use to envision victory before the sporting event.
Lastly, dreams seem to be no different at a subconscious level, then at the conscious level with regards to time.
Just as we cannot live in the future, we can set ourselves up and project ourselves into that future, just as we can in dreams.
We can also use our memory of the past to relive the past in our conscious mind and in our thoughts.
Just as we do in our dreams.
Now then, I ask you this simple question, and before you answer to yourself, I'd like you to please consider this; do you dream in the past, present, or future? Please think on it.
