Even more eye-opening

Even more eye-opening: the reason our dreams seem to have a story may, Adam mused, be because of our brain's inherent need
for patterning. "The brain is a natural storyteller," he pithily opined. As for the peculiarly symbolic quality of dreams,
the brain already works metaphorically by nature -- constantly filtering impressions of the present with the memory of past,
hence conceiving reality through habitual bridge-making. Quoting "Orlando," Zeman notes: "Everything is in fact always
something else."- from:Can Dreams Predict the Future? By Karin Badt / Source: Huffington Post