One disputed fact about dreaming (because it is currently empirically unprovable) is
that we can only ever dream of what we know and have experienced. Dreams of
unfamiliar strangers who play out roles are not creations of the imagination,
but the real faces of the hundreds of thousands of actual people we have seen
in our lifetime, whether we remember them or not. Our brains are therefore
loaded with an endless supply of dream characters and other imagery (or other
forms of sensory experience – such as sounds, touch, smell etc) which we
collect over the course of our lives. Sometimes, our dreaming mind may use
several different faces/sensory memories to create a composite image/symbol –
for example, combining aspects or characteristics of more than one person/thing
to form something entirely new and unique. But it’s still dream content based
on things known and experienced by the dreamer.
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