Medical Are Dreams a Window to Your Subconscious Mind?

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Scientists previously believed that dreaming activated the same brain regions responsible for perceiving sensory information when awake, but without external stimuli, the brain constructs its own imagery. Recent discussions suggest that dreaming may involve different parts of the brain, potentially linked to the subconscious mind. The concept of the mind is visualized as a circle, with the conscious mind at the center and the larger unconscious mind surrounding it. This raises questions about the nature of dreams, suggesting they may represent the subconscious attempting to communicate or process information. The disorganized and surreal nature of dreams could stem from the subconscious being active while the conscious mind remains inactive. The conversation also touches on the idea of whether psychedelic experiences might awaken parts of the mind that are typically dormant.
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Scientests once thought that when you dream it's the same part of the brian that perceives sights,sounds,etc that's awkened in sleeptime just that it's getting any infor from the eyes and ears . With no external info it makes up scenes and colors of it's own.

From what I'm hearing it's another part of our brin that we don't use normally. I wonder, is it our subconscious minf. I like to imagine our mind as a circle. In the center draw a smaller circle. That's our conscious mind. THe rest outside the inner circe is the conscious min. MOst of our mind is unconscious. WHat if you were to wake it up? Is this what's happening during psychdellic trips?

But dreams are different. The conscious mind is inactive and the subconscious is. SO we are thinking and percieving without our inner circle. This lives anll the parts of the sunconscious mind unconnected and organized wince we don't use it mornally. Is this why dreams are crazy and don't make sense?

In other words are dreams your subconscious trying to communicate things or find things out?
 
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I guess dreaming is an uninteresting portion of neuroscience.
 
Hey, it's the Holidays for many of the PF folks. Here's some Holiday reading for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams

Now I'll go back to sleep for a while. See if I can get back into that dream I was having...
 
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