In the land of Nod

Why do we dream?? Place your answer in the form of a question and no longer then 50 words!

Seriously though, I know it's something to do with our brains random firing of synapses because we're asleep and either it's clearing it's self out or is just bored or some such. I just wonder what gets it all going and why some dreams make a spooky lot of sense and others are just mumbo-jumbo. How some really do seem to tell the future and others let you know how you'd react if you suddenly turned into a giant omelet. (I'd be pretty good except if I had Green peppers in...)

Oneirology is the scientific study of dreams. They've not been able to say exactly why we dream either, though they speculate a lot and draw a decent salary each month.

Last night I was dreaming I was a character in Buffy the Vampire slayer and I was getting advice on treating werewolf bites. (Somewhere along the lines of "tough luck you're so screwed!!") It was terribly entertaining and it was rather annoying when my body insisted we get up before the alarm went off. (I put the most annoying music I could find as my alarm on my cell. Come tiredness, come illness, come being dead, I WILL get up before that horrid noise goes off! *wipes froth from mouth*)

I dream in colour. (someone once told me you dream in black and white, but I suspect they were the sort who also believe goldfish have 7 second memories and that if you put milk outside it's fairies and not feral cats that drink it and leave fur floating.)

I always wonder if comatose people dream? Do they live long, long drawn out dreams? Or bits and pieces of scattered dreams? Or do they blank out and wake up 50 years later feeling a bit stiff and wondering where the long flowing white beard came from? (especially if they're female...)

My dreams tend to stick to the Sci-fi / fantasy / real life with a twist genre. I've had barely one or two prophetic dreams and if I've had an erotic dream, I wasn't there to see it! (I also seldom dream of fruit, hamsters or socks which just goes to show how wacky our brains can be!)

What did you dream last night?