Well I honestly have no clue but a few people I know say it is for self defense. (Pretty much in the dreams you learn how to defend yourself)
Idk but it places me in situations that I'll never experience in real life, so like a VR video game. Also, yeah, self-defense too. Cos like, last night I dreamt I was breaking out of jail, and then this other time I was running away from a Roman army. They definitely don't make sense, but it's generally an adrenaline rush kind of thing.
I can agree with dreams being a sort of defense. They seem to be a representation of your innermost fears, or the feelings and emotions that you refuse to acknowledge when you're awake. I'm clueless when it comes to stuff like this, but I have noticed a recurring theme in my dreams: pent up emotions that almost always end with me being forced to accept/confront them in some way. Maybe it's just because I'm such an introverted person. What I want to say or do the most manifests in my dreams instead.
I've heard dreams are either our inner fears or our inner cravings. Not sure which one is more accurate, though. Maybe it depends on a dream. In my dreams, I always see the same places. I've almost started to believe that I live in two parallel worlds.
To me dreams are about what's happening in your life and what's going on in your mind, emotions, etc. sorry if it doesn't make sense.
I have more nightmares than dreams but dismiss them out of hand as soon as I wake up. The nature of those nightmares is irrelevant, although they often relate to trauma from earlier in my life. Again, I just dismiss them as I don't live in the past. Happy days
I think dreams are our brains' way of processing things we've read, seen, or experienced. It puts our innermost feelings and thoughts into visuals In essence, our brains are movie directors
