I like your explanations that one uses "dreams during a night of sleep to broaden the adaptations we will use in" dealing with our problems. You go to offer these very important idea that "Dreaming a REM dream means experiencing it in the real world of our memory. Although our motive is to use dream experiences to merely confirm our adaptations, each dream evokes lessons derived from past experience that have not been included in the adaptations. " I think this is extremely significant and orienting. It is necessary in order to understanding a dream. "In this way, memories offer the dreamer advice about how to handle the situations he is currently facing." I think that is the key point ! Well said!
I am curious though why you think that unconscious thought processes are rationally superior to our conscious ones. I tend to think of them as similar rather than one better than the other? Is there a scientific reason for your privileging of the unconscious though processes?
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