There’s a theory that dreams serve as a sort of simulation mechanism for our brain to think through how to respond to various potential situations. It argues that is why natural disaster nightmares are so prevalent, and why our dreams are so weird (monkey brain does not understand modern society).
Anyways, good for them, I’m glad their brain figured out what to do about hypothetical McWeird.
Someone on reddit commented to the effect that dreams are our brain’s combat simulators. Had just a touch of PTSD at the time and that really, really hit home.
Wow! Guess the commenter wasn’t as original as I thought. Took a poke at finding the original and Gemini spit up a reference to threat simulation theory (TST), which turns out to be a real thing!
There’s a theory that dreams serve as a sort of simulation mechanism for our brain to think through how to respond to various potential situations. It argues that is why natural disaster nightmares are so prevalent, and why our dreams are so weird (monkey brain does not understand modern society).
Anyways, good for them, I’m glad their brain figured out what to do about hypothetical McWeird.
Someone on reddit commented to the effect that dreams are our brain’s combat simulators. Had just a touch of PTSD at the time and that really, really hit home.
Wow! Guess the commenter wasn’t as original as I thought. Took a poke at finding the original and Gemini spit up a reference to threat simulation theory (TST), which turns out to be a real thing!
That’s an interesting take. Simulation for dealing with life.