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Originally Posted by zoedragon I forget what that statistic is (I don't have photographic memory unfortunately) but supposedly a huge percentage of the brain is not used to its fullest potential. You've probably seen various movies where they find some way to tap into that potential and unleash some sort of psychic abilities. Maybe when we're not in full control (like when we're asleep) the brain does stuff like that. Maybe we do dream of the future. |
Doubtful. If that were possible it would be already evolutionarily selected for. Just because your whole brain is lit up with activity doesn't mean that you are very smart at that point. Different parts of the brain could be very specific in what they are capable of. To determine what would happen in the future, you would need to keep track of many variables. I don't think that the brain is that capable.
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Originally Posted by zoedragon Which is weird because the dreams I remember are quite bizarre. If they were pieces of my future then I would have been in a couple of Star Trek episodes, been breathing underwater a couple times, and flown at least once or twice like Superman. We could have watched as my sister drove by on her bed while picking up rocks along the way. |
To me dreams seem like random permutations of what I have been thinking of during the day. The randomness could account for the broken up fasion in which dreams are put together. Thinking while awake is sometimes like that when a goal is not in mind.