The researchers found that dreams were most commonly traced back to past memories or related to specific impending future events. The future-oriented dreams would draw from multiple different “waking sources” or events that were either currently happening in their lives or had happened in the past.
You could think of these simulations as rehearsals for an upcoming show, where you’re the director as well as the lead performer. You are planning and organizing the event, preparing for anything that might go wrong and using your past experiences to ensure that “the main show” is a success. The content of our dreams also seems to suggest that the nature of an event matters more than its duration. For example, daily, mundane experiences that we spend most of our time on, such as reading or working on a computer would get less “screen time” in our dreams as compared to more meaningful events, such as social interactions and other experiences that are personally significant, novel or concerning for the dreamer.
Finally, researchers found that dreams tend to repeat similar themes across the night and in the different sleep stages. This can give us a sense of what we are unconsciously trying to process or prepare for.found that memory performance improved after a night’s sleep, which could be due to the repeated reactivation and strengthening of recently-formed memory networks in the sleeping brain.
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