Dreams Actually Virtual Reality Threat Simulation?

Time Slows Down writes “Psychology Today has an interesting story on a new theory of why we dream. Finnish psychologist Antti Revonsuo believes that dreams are a sort of nighttime theater in which our brains screen realistic scenarios simulating emergency situations and providing an arena for safe training. ‘The

primary operate of negative dreams is rehearsal for similar real events, so that threat recognition and avoidance happens faster and more automatically in comparable real situations,’ he says. We have 300 to 1,000 threat dreams per year — one to four per night and just under half are

aggressive encounters: physical aggression such as fistfights, and nonphysical aggression such as verbal arguments. Faced with actual […]

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