{"id":947,"date":"2018-02-20T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T11:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=947"},"modified":"2018-02-20T19:29:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T19:29:19","slug":"why-do-we-have-certain-dreams-what-is-our-brain-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/20\/why-do-we-have-certain-dreams-what-is-our-brain-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we have certain dreams? What is our brain doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_940\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-940\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AW02202018-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-940\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AW02202018-4-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"Why do we have certain dreams? What is our brain doing?\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why do we have certain dreams? What is our brain doing?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Starting with Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, Western psychologists have had a lot to say about dreams. (The Interpretation of Dreams, by Freud: O&#8217;Neill BF1078 .F748 1999, Dreams by Carl Jung: online at bit.ly\/jstor-jung-dreams). Of course, humans have been interpreting dreams for millennia. For a very different perspective, you might also be interested in Ancestral power: the Dreaming, consciousness and aboriginal Australians, by Lynne Hume (O&#8217;Neill BL2610 .H86 2002) Neurologists generally take a more functional view: the brain reshuffles neural connections from the recent past to cement memories. The brain also uses certain sleep cycles to rinse toxins out of the brain (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/science-brainwash\">bit.ly\/science-brainwash<\/a>) that otherwise might lead to conditions like Huntington&#8217;s Disease or Alzheimer&#8217;s. IOW your dreams are for brainwashing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting with Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, Western psychologists have had a lot to say about dreams. (The Interpretation of Dreams, by Freud: O&#8217;Neill BF1078 .F748 1999, Dreams by Carl Jung: online at bit.ly\/jstor-jung-dreams). Of course, humans have been interpreting dreams for millennia. For a very different perspective, you might also be interested in Ancestral &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/20\/why-do-we-have-certain-dreams-what-is-our-brain-doing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why do we have certain dreams? What is our brain doing?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions","category-health-wellness","tag-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}