Dreametaphor

Why do dreams seem to often be a metaphor of our subconscious?

Assuming that dreaming is a state of subconsciousness, as I further explained in a post from a year ago; Seam of a Dream, why does it often seem to consist of fictional, unrealistic, and bizarre scenarios, yet represent emotions which we actually have while awake? 

If you think of common nightmares, they usually involve some aspect of a fear which the individual has in real life. There seems to be a ratio of the more nightmares someone has, the more fear they have. Children seem to have a lot of nightmares, as well as have a lot of irrational fears. Once most fears are gone, as someone learns more, and understands those fictional things that they feared, dont exist, nightmares seem to be reduced. Or if someone has had trauma of some sort, they will often have nightmares related to a fear developed from the trauma. Fear is 1 of the most controlling instinctual emotions, as it developed to be beneficial to cause the individual to avoid danger, so perhaps it makes sense that it can have a lot of control over dreams.

If someone has a common emotion (such as fear) throughout their day or life, that means, various stimulus trigger that emotion. While dreaming, subconscious seems to be the overriding control mechanism for the mind. Since the subconscious functions mainly on basic instinctive feedback, connected to memories (as I further explained in a post from earlier this year; Subconscious Subjection), it makes sense that emotions would have a lot of cause in what the mind accesses while dreaming. As your brain accesses neurons of memories, while dreaming, common emotions for the individual, are likely to be triggered. Once that emotion is driving the mind, the incoherent portions of memories which are being accessed, will fill in the “dream”, with factors connected to that emotion (or easy to access). A memory within a dream can trigger an emotion, and an emotion can trigger factors within memory. 

It may be an emotion which starts the dream (rather than a memory stimuli starting the emotion), if that emotion is persisting while asleep. But either way, when the subconscious is in control, and there’s no active sensory perception as input for the main stimuli, factors saved in memory and emotion, seems to be the main triggers for what your brain accesses while sleeping. A feedback loop seems plausible, with memory access to factors, and emotion connected to those factors.

As long as there is an emotion driving the dream, this should cause various factors in memory to be triggered by that emotion, and create a sort of metaphor for the emotion. The inconsistency of realisticness while dreaming, may make sense, simply because memory access is not very accurate, and subconsciousness does not comprehend rational connections between factors, to make it realistic. Basically, by definition (or at least mine), subconsciousness is a lack of comprehension of the interaction between factors, or how anything functions. It’s a more simple method of reaction to stimulus, based on instinctual feedback or reinforcement, connected to memory. Without an understanding of the function of cause and effect between factors, the mind will pick factors that have no rational connection, to fill in dreams. 

During a dream, the brain seems to be accessing various factors, saved in memory, with a flow of electricity to combinations of neurons, without the conscious mind controlling rational connections. Factors accessed in memory while dreaming, would be connected in incredibly complex ways, including recurrence of perceiving or thinking about certain factors, while awake. This would make flow to those combinations of neurons more probable (besides the triggering from emotion causing certain factors in memory to be accessed). 

Dreaming seems to be a state of neural access to factors saved in memory, which is driven by emotion and influenced by common connectedness to certain factors within memory. But with subconsciousness lacking comprehension of connection between factors, the brain seems to portray a scenario resembling the driving emotion, using irrational factors, to create a Dreametaphor.