I don't see the need to mystify something as simple and mundane as dreaming. About as meaningful as attributing great spiritual power to a table and set of chairs, or wondering about the divinity of rising bread.
The broad consensus is that it's fragmented, imperfect, and altered consciousness operating during a state of rest and being imperfectly remembered and/or integrated. Your senses, reasoning, reality-checking, and self-awareness are all offline or degraded to one extent or another but your brain decides to make a narrative of the jumble of residual memories and emotions. The resulting output doesn't map well to reality and often isn't properly stored in memory. The result is a poorly remembered hallucinatory state that has little to no bearing on reality. That's why most dreams involve stuff that was weighing on your mind and places that you've been, rather than things you've never done, languages that you've never spoken, or places that you've never been.
So yes, I have a better explanation.
The broad consensus is that it's fragmented, imperfect, and altered consciousness operating during a state of rest and being imperfectly remembered and/or integrated. Your senses, reasoning, reality-checking, and self-awareness are all offline or degraded to one extent or another but your brain decides to make a narrative of the jumble of residual memories and emotions. The resulting output doesn't map well to reality and often isn't properly stored in memory. The result is a poorly remembered hallucinatory state that has little to no bearing on reality. That's why most dreams involve stuff that was weighing on your mind and places that you've been, rather than things you've never done, languages that you've never spoken, or places that you've never been.
So yes, I have a better explanation.
