#22: Dream a Little Dream of Me
It’s an age-old question: can we make up people in our dreams, or do we only dream of people and faces we’ve seen somewhere before? The answer is that in dreams, our minds can indeed conjure up people we’ve never seen before. While some dream characters may be based on familiar faces from our past, our brain’s capacity for creativity allows it to generate entirely new individuals, blending features, personalities, and experiences.
These novel dream characters can be a product of our subconscious, drawing on various sources of inspiration, such as people we’ve glimpsed in passing, images from media, or even fragments of strangers we’ve encountered throughout our lives. Dreams are a complex interplay of memory, imagination, and emotions, and they showcase our brain’s remarkable ability to construct unique scenarios and characters.