Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

And when you know you make a mistake, when your brain tells you, hey, bro, hey, girl, this is a mistake, what do you do?

Uh-uh.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

It's not a mistake.

I'll be able to handle it this time.

It'll be okay.

So you have all kinds of intuitions, all kinds of knowledge.

And if your brain tries to serve it up to you in a concrete way, you will reject it because you, like all other human beings, have psychological defense mechanisms.

Your brain experiences more emotion than you can process in a given day.

That is what I think the function of dreams is.

Dreams, like the reason that we have dreams is because we experience all these emotions that get suppressed by our logical mind, get suppressed by our defense mechanisms.

We're focused on data and then our brain is left with all this activation, right?

So just because you are suppressing an emotion doesn't mean that your limbic system and your amygdala are not active.

Blood is flowing there and then your brain is like trying to bury it.

So that needs to be processed in some way.

And this is why the more logical you are, the more useful dream interpretation is because your brain is pushing aside all of this stuff.

Now, how do you work with your dreams?

So the first thing that I would recommend is that you get a dream journal, okay?