dream

is just a randomly-generated story caused by neural impulses. A dream is a kind of 'temporary storage' area of consciousness, a spot where we hold memories before we move them from short-term to long-term storage. They flash through our minds as dreams before we secret them away in the files of our memory.

Maybe dreams are just randomly-generated stories caused by neural impulses, but perhaps there's also a reason for them, too. To explore this idea, psychiatrist Jie Zhang, proposed the continual-activation theory of dreaming, which refers to the idea that our brains are always storing memories regardless of whether we're awake or asleep. But dreams are a kind of 'temporary storage' area of consciousness, a spot where we hold memories before we move them from short-term to long-term storage. They flash through our minds as dreams before we secret them away in the files of our memory.

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