There’re several hypotheses regarding functions of dreams. They include the following:
At the time of night, there might be several external stimuli going on with bombarding senses. However, mind interprets stimulus, along with making it a portion of dream for ensuring continued sleep. However, the mind would awaken the individual if it’s trained for responding to specific sounds or in danger. For instance- crying of a baby. Dreams permit mind’s repressed parts for being satisfied via fantasy along with having kept conscious mind away from thoughts which would, all of a sudden, cause a person to wake up from shock.
Freud had suggested that poor dreams cause brain of learning to have control gained over emotions that result from the distressing experiences. Jung gave the suggestion that the dreams might go on with the compensation for the one-sided attitudes that get held at the time of waking consciousness. Dreams are, in fact, like computers’ cleaning-up operations when they happen to be off-line, thereby causing removal of parasitic nodes as well as the other ‘junk’ from mind at the time of sleep. Dreams contribute to the creation of new ideas through generation of ‘Random Thought Mutations’. Some amongst these might get rejected (by mind) as being useless, whereas the others might be viewed as being valuable.
