Why we dream is one of the behavioral sciences' greatest unanswered questions. Researchers have offered many theories-memory consolidation, emotional regulation, threat simulation-but a unified one remains, well, a pipe dream. Nevertheless, people continue mining their nighttime reveries for clues to their inner lives, for creative insight, and even for premonitions.
Why we dream is one of the behavioral sciences' greatest unanswered questions. Researchers have offered many theories-memory consolidation, emotional regulation, threat simulation-but a unified one remains, well, a pipe dream. Nevertheless, people continue mining their nighttime reveries for clues to their inner lives, for creative insight, and even for premonitions.