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Why does temperature of the room or body affect dreams?
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Who said it does?
Or... maybe you mean to clarrify your question.
Are you trying to ask, "Why is it, if I'm sleeping while I'm cold, that I have dreams about running with polar bears?"
If that's what you're asking, the answer is obvious... it's because you're brain is incorporating external stimuli into the dream, just like how if you're sleeping in a room with loud music, then your brain might incorporate that music into the dream.
How can it incorporate those phenomena into the dream you ask? Well, there's a mechanism at the base of the brain called the reticualr apparatus that is supposed to separate the brain from the body when you sleep, otherwise you'd twitch while dreaming, and you'd incorporate every external phenomena into a dream, but it's not perfect.
If you haven't been eating well, or if you're in bad mental shape, or if you've been doing drugs or drinking too much, such that the reticular apparatus isn't working right, then signals can cross in both directions more than they're suposed to, such that you'll incorporate more-than-usual external stimuli into your dreams, and you'll twitch and sleep-talk and sleep-walk more than usual.
Or... maybe you mean to clarrify your question.
Are you trying to ask, "Why is it, if I'm sleeping while I'm cold, that I have dreams about running with polar bears?"
If that's what you're asking, the answer is obvious... it's because you're brain is incorporating external stimuli into the dream, just like how if you're sleeping in a room with loud music, then your brain might incorporate that music into the dream.
How can it incorporate those phenomena into the dream you ask? Well, there's a mechanism at the base of the brain called the reticualr apparatus that is supposed to separate the brain from the body when you sleep, otherwise you'd twitch while dreaming, and you'd incorporate every external phenomena into a dream, but it's not perfect.
If you haven't been eating well, or if you're in bad mental shape, or if you've been doing drugs or drinking too much, such that the reticular apparatus isn't working right, then signals can cross in both directions more than they're suposed to, such that you'll incorporate more-than-usual external stimuli into your dreams, and you'll twitch and sleep-talk and sleep-walk more than usual.
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