Dr. Rahul Jandial
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When you look at patterns of dreaming, some dreams cluster in families like nightmares.
Some dreams are common despite changes in culture and society, like falling and being chased.
And then math dreams are very rarely reported.
I think that's an important point.
And the way I think about it is let's not ask the dreaming brain and the dreaming mind to do what we wouldn't.
What we wouldn't ask the waking brain and waking mind to do.
We don't always have clever thoughts.
We don't hold on to much of what we do during the day.
And the product of the waking brain is not always consequential.
So, yes, many dreams are irrelevant.
They're static.
Some dreams are universal.
Nightmares and erotic dreams.
So that has to be understood that that doesn't seem like an accidental process.
Some dreams cluster in families like nightmares.
So they're inherited in some ways like our disposition to risk or mental health.
Some dreams are common despite changes in culture and society like falling and being chased.
And I've been reported for
centuries those things can't be accidental when they're happening over centuries across cultures and then some dreams uh the patterns when you look at not your dream or my dream but thousands of dreams math is very rare what happens with the dreaming brain is our executive network which is a collection of structures that includes something that's really that functions for logic and math is dampened it kind of makes sense that math dreams are very rarely reported
when you look at the dreaming brain and you see that