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So far, the explanation for dreams which resonated most for me came from Anil Seth’s book Being You. The overall thesis of the book is that our conscious experiences are really predictions about the world around us which are updated based on input from our senses. Dreams, then, are what happens when the predictive aspect is decoupled from sensory corrections. Thus our dreams contain elements from our actual experiences but unconstrained by the need to correspond to anything, even themselves moment-to-moment. That doesn’t mean dreams cannot ever be prophetic or a medium of communication from God, as the Bible describes in the cases of Daniel and the Josephs. But it helps me make sense of my typical boy-I-hope-that-wasn’t-a-divine-message dreams.
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