Do Our Dreams Predict the Future or Play Tricks on Us?

[lordinfamous]

Hi there.



I have heard that If you can truly use your brain (anything more than 40% of it's ability) you can predict the future, does the brain become more inteligent during sleep time?


well.. just so you know, we do use 100% of our brain! You can ask any neurologist how much of our brain capasity do we use! I promise you he will say 100% (pending you are in good health).

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I don't quite see how dreaming has much to do with memory either really. Most of the time I don't remember my dreams and even when I do very little of it corisponds to actual memories. In fact most of the time if I dream of being in a location that I know such as at work or some other similar sort of place that I know well my dream of the place looks nothing like it actually does in real life. Very often even I will dream of certain people and they will look nothing like they do in real life. So is there supposed to be a connection between your dream experience and your memories?

 

[Evo]

So is there supposed to be a connection between your dream experience and your memories?

No. Don't mistake the underlying brain functions that have to do with memory storage to what you are dreaming. They are completely unrelated.

 

[Evo]

Hi there.



I have heard that If you can truly use your brain (anything more than 40% of it's ability) you can predict the future, does the brain become more inteligent during sleep time?


well.. just so you know, we do use 100% of our brain! You can ask any neurologist how much of our brain capasity do we use! I promise you he will say 100% (pending you are in good health).

That is incorrect, we never use 100% of our brain capacity. Were you making a joke? Sorry, maybe I missed it.

 

[JesseM]

That is incorrect, we never use 100% of our brain capacity. Were you making a joke? Sorry, maybe I missed it.

We never use 100% of the brain at a single time, but every part of the brain is active some of the time...when people say "we only use X% of our brain" to imply that we'd have amazing powers if only we could use more, I think they're suggesting that there are unused parts of the brain that we never tap into, which isn't true.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I remember now having had an interesting dream experience.
I dreamt that I was traveling with a theatre troupe. One of the actors that I was friends with and I both had a crush on the same actress. She came up to me and asked me to play Othello with her. I went to look for the board game then realized that there was likely a double entendre of some sort there.
I've never been involved in theatre and have neither seen nor read Othello. I asked an ex of mine who has been involved in theatre if she knew of any theatre slang like "playing Othello". She told me that there is one that generally means someone is playing the jealous lover.
At first I had thought it odd enough that such a thing would crop up in a dream of mine and then even more strange that it turns out to be something from the real world that I have never been exposed to. I've been interested in the idea of the collective unconscious. I'm not saying this was a product of it neccisarily. I just thought it was interesting.