Dreaming may not have an evolutionary advantage at all. It’s more likely that it’s the natural by-product of brain activity during sleep.

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not everything that happens has an evolutionary advantage, it just means that it didn't have an evolutionary disadvantage. having a big complicated brain was an advantage. the fact that our big complicated brains fire off random signals while we sleep that present as images and stories is a side effect.

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How is it not you know how much joy that’d bring me thats a will to live type dream right there

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Coming from your handy psych master student. Dreams actually have tons of meanings! There are a ton of different theories but the main one people tend to stick with is your dreams are a presentation of how you are feeling. It’s nothing evolutionary really. The brain is a lot different than physical evolution. Brains obviously develop with evolution as well but very differently! :)

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Sometimes I think it just helps you keep from being bored while you sleep so you can sleep enough. Sometimes it helps solve problems, like this study shows

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