Human brain Quote by Richard Dawkins

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

— Manuel Puig

Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the…

— Stephen LaBerge

I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to…

— Amy Hardie

“Modeling—a process to develop a representation of reality to understand, communicate, or predict.”

— Rich Jolly

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as…

— Annie Besant

Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art,…

— John Henry Holland

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

— Carl Jung

Reality is the evolution of dreams

— Anonymous

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

— Jonathan Gottschall

Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.

— Peter Senge

Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of…

— Richard Dawkins

“During dreaming, we’re tuned inward, we experience vivid visual imagery, our conventional logic system is turned down, and social norms are loosened, all of…

— Andrea Rock