Why are dreams so bizarre and unreal?
There are a number of reasons. First: the part of the brain responsible for rational interpretation of stimuli, is not active (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex). However, brain mechanisms responsible for awareness and recognition of stimulus are as active as when we are awake we are conscious and aware and processing all the information arising from within in our brain – but no longer censor it with the filter of rationality in our dreams we are free to experience all the information about our life situations. Second: the left lobe and language center of the brain (which assigns things name identities) is off, while the right lobe (which processes associations not words) is on. Therefore dreams speaks in associations – pictographs (picture language), metaphor, analogies, phrases, and identify things by function and feeling not names.
