Dreaming is not rest, but rather another phase of wakefulness. Only our conscious perception shuts off, but our alertness and information processing remain active. We continue to sense our environment—sounds, smells, temperature. Depending on how the nervous system works, this sensitivity varies from person to person.

The same goes for whether or not we have dreams. If you rarely dream or don’t dream at all, it could be due to overloading your nervous system and extreme fatigue, or the opposite. When there is minimal stress, plenty of rest, and the information we receive is processed throughout the day, there’s no need to "relive" or "play out" anything in our dreams.

Dreams often contain a set of images and situations that you experienced the day before or even that very day. When your attention hasn’t focused on certain details, and there were many emotional reactions during the day, there’s a good chance that your dreams will consist of a series of symbols from those events.

Dreams frequently help us process emotions, like a second reality that feels safer for us. They can also replay physical memories, serving as a way to re-experience traumatic scenarios.

You could say that just as the intestines digest the food we consume during the day, the brain digests the information we receive. It’s no coincidence that these two organs are often compared in anatomy.

Dreams that carry a mystical quality, where deceased relatives appear or future events are predicted, can also be explained. 🤔

Drawing from studies on human memory and the structure of DNA—which is essentially a vast bank of genetic data, or more simply, the experiences of previous generations—our consciousness loves to role-play. It’s an easier way for us to process information. You could assume that prophetic dreams are also a product of anxiety and unconscious analysis. The brain selects the character for a reason. If it’s a recently deceased relative, chances are you’ve been thinking about them a lot.

A dream with that relative is likely more of a pattern than a mystery, as our psyche creates this character to help us cope with the loss.

When we understand that our unconscious brain is capable of analyzing events we've experienced, drawing not only from our personal experience but also from the knowledge of previous generations and our instinctive perception of the environment, then the result of this analysis can appear in dreams as a prophecy. Such dreams no longer seem mystical to us. 😲

I’m confident that if you analyze the events leading up to a prophetic dream, you’ll recall and notice that the path to that dream was formed from things you had already begun to pick up on as signals for the situation.

We have a sense of premonition. No matter how civilized we are, this period of human evolution is still quite recent. For centuries, people navigated environmental and weather changes through the tiniest shifts.

Much has been lost, but some abilities remain to this day. Our perception still works this way, picking up on many things, even when we don’t actively notice them. Our dreams reflect what could be important to us, helping us re-experience and release emotions. 😌