From: KC@none.invalid   
      
   Peter wrote:   
      
      
   > Anyway, whenever I think about dreams, I find it hard to believe in   
   > scientific theory saying that our dreams are just a side effect of   
   > sleeping brain activity. If dreams are just random images, then how is   
   > it possible that sometimes we can have the same dream for a few nights   
   > in a row or have the same dream after a few years? Random activity   
   > shouldn't give two or more results which are exactly the same or very   
   > similar to each other.   
      
   I think the "random side effect" hypothesis was abandoned a long time   
   ago. But we don't have a definite answer for even the much more basic   
   question of "Why do we (almost all organisms) sleep?", let alone "Why do   
   we (animals at least) dream?".   
      
      
   Cheers, KC   
      
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