Why Do We Have Truly Bizarre Dreams?

‘Dormeuse aux persiennes’, Pablo Picasso. Oil on canvas, circa 1936.

"Your weird dreams actually make a lot of sense (according to neuroscience and psychology. Think of it as your brain’s version of throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks. Our dreams are the Wild West of our minds where rules and order don’t exist. Or do they? The scientists who study dreaming say it isn’t really as strange a phenomenon as it might otherwise seem — and even the really weird dreams probably don’t come out of the blue ..." (read more)