Sleep - Alex’s Answer
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I think of sleep from a more scientific approach, that it is just the body’s way of recharging. However dreams are still very mysterious and quite unexplainable in this way. What I think is that in the recharging process the brain tries to absorb all the stimulation that it received throughout the day and decide what to take into memory.
It is a well accepted idea that memory and REM sleep are closely related. I believe that dreams are like watching your day in rewind. If you watch a movie in rewind you can tell generally what is going on, but because it is backwards and so fast things are skewed. I believe that’s why dreams are so strange, is the body is trying to add things to it’s memory and we are “watching” this rewind process.
An interesting idea, but by no means what I think at all is: what if every day we woke up each morning having a complete set of memories all the way back to the moment we were born. Then the next morning we wake up and have a completely different set all the way back to childhood. What if today I remember my life and think i’ve lived in Utah all my life and remember my childhood etc. What if tomorrow I wake up and think I’m a doctor and remember going all the way through med-school. What if each of these was like a separate dream, and what we perceive as sleep is actually just the reset button, or these memories being “downloaded” from wherever they come from. Just a thought.
