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 Brain Diagram – Hippocampus |
2012.10.08 Dreams are the product of persistent nighttime brain activity, which neuroscience has now demonstrated ("UCLA researchers discover that the sleeping brain behaves as if it's remembering something") to be a memory assessment and prioritization conversation between the hippocampus (a portion of the central region, handling the lower functions) and the cortex (the outer, region, which constitutes most of the human brain, is considered more recently evolved (e.g., neo-) and handles the higher, human, functions. The cortex comprises all of the white regions except the central area in which the word "hippocampus" is found. (The hippocampus is the region the word points to, not the central region in which the word is printed.)
Neuroscientists have only recently discovered that this memory assessment and prioritization conversation between the hippocampus and the neo-cortex regions is intermediated by the "entorhinal cortex, an intermediate brain that connects the new [cortex, outer] and the old [lower, popularly "reptilian," inner] brains [including where the word "hippocampus" is found]."
This suggests that dreams may be more closely connected to recent experiences, recent learning and recent knowledge being processed, assessed and prioritized for long-term storage – or dismissal as unimportant trivia. Our dreams, then, may be our subconscious (therefore, more calculated / logical and objective) evaluation and projection of how these recent experiences and knowledge are apt to impact the outcome of a situation that was anxiously pondered, worried or fretted over by the individual – and, hence, how valuable the information seems to be relative to long-term memory storage.
This is in perfect harmony with all of the dreams described in Scripture; and reflects not anything supernatural but, rather, how closely the "dreamer" is to the situation pertaining to the dream (inside info as with the Pharaoh's servants' knowledge of what had transpired in their experience nn their concern about their consequent fate, etc.) as well as his or her intellectual capability to accurately process that information.
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