Why do we dream? - Amy Adkins
8,719,616 Views
57,673 Questions Answered
Let’s Begin…
In the 3rd millennium BCE, Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on wax tablets. In the years since, we haven't paused in our quest to understand why we dream. And while we still don’t have any definitive answers, we have some theories. Amy Adkins reveals the top seven reasons why we might dream.
Create and share a new lesson based on this one.
About TED-Ed Animations
TED-Ed Animations feature the words and ideas of educators brought to life by professional animators. Are you an educator or animator interested in creating a TED-Ed Animation? Nominate yourself here »
Meet The Creators
- Educator Amy Adkins
- Animator Claire Van Ryzin, Chris Anne Lindo, Sam Lee
- Narrator Addison Anderson
Bao Nguyen Quoc
Lesson in progress
So according to this lesson, dreaming is good? I recently suffered strains from dreams continuously, mostly from the stress in daily life and haven't found a way to stop them. In my viewpoint, it's better not to dream when we sleeping in order to get full strength.
Comments are closed on this discussion.
Aysu Abdullayeva
Lesson in progress
maybe as dream helps to remember depending on things you experience during day it appears in your dreams and sometimes I think dreaming helps to heal and increases sleep quality
vania sofia chacon paredes
Lesson completed
Dreaming is good because it helps remember
Olga Aurora Hernandez De La Torre
Olga Aurora Hernandez De La Torre
Lesson completed
Dreaming that I fall down
Azam Ali
Lesson in progress
Dreaming carries an important message in some cultures. Its not always what dream does have a meaning. so dreams can be important.
Emma McBeath
Lesson in progress
we need to dream not only for the reasons in the video, but because dreams help with saddness, greif and closure
Erkutay Durak
Lesson in progress
Dreaming is a somekind of notification while you are spending your day. On the other hand,as it mentioned in video, brain is processing while you are sleeping which have seen or learned.
Kayode Jonathan
Lagos , Nigeria
Lesson completed
I have taken time to observed a two weeks old baby sleeping. Sometimes twich a smile and at the other time frown a cry. I guess joy and sadness are drafts of our unconscious mind.
We dream no more when life ends all headaches and heartaches, in the sleep of death.
Brady Printer
Lesson in progress
Dreaming can be really fun like when you have a adventrous one some are nightmares but that doesnt matter.
