Weird dreams train us for the unexpected, says new theory

Weird dreams train us for the unexpected, says new theory

It’s a common enough scenario: you walk into your local supermarket to buy some milk, but by the time you get to the till, the milk bottle has turned into a talking fish. Then you remember you’ve got your GCSE maths exam in the morning, but you haven’t attended a maths lesson for nearly three decades.

The Overfitted Brain Hypotheses

Dreams can be bafflingly bizarre, but that’s the whole point

Other theories for why we dream

Freudian theory: Dreams represent “disguised fulfilments of repressed wishes”

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