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This leads us back to the question of what things we think are meaningful and how they get that way. One way of viewing this problem-of-meaning is through story-contexts. For some scientists, science is not about meaning and value at all, its about quantity and statistics. From this story or context, science can’t give an answer to the question of whether or not dreams are meaningful. One can’t start with a measure that has no meaning in itself and jump to any conclusions one way or the other about meaning from a statistic or measure. But science is guided by other stories and contexts besides statistics.

In biological sciences, the story-context that gives things meaning is evolution. If something fits into this context, it is considered meaningful and if it doesn’t involve evolution, its not considered meaningful. Are dreams advantageous to evolution, or are they an epiphenomena and functionless appendage like the appendix or tonsils? Are they essential to the well-being and continuation of the species and individual, or just something like poop that we excrete and don’t need to attend to for survival and passing on of genes?
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Meaning of Dreams Pt 1
Meaning of Dreams Pt 2
Meaning of Dreams Pt 3
Meaning of Dreams Pt 4
Do dreams have meaning? Yes, but the question is more difficult than it first appears.

If you don’t want to think about it too much, you can jump to the end of this text and read the section on Is the Dream a Message?

Let’s try another question first. Is life itself meaningful? People debate this issue endlessly without full agreement. Some are quite sure the answer will always be an opinion rather than a fact. Others feel it is self-apparent that for those who continue to choose living, that life is, for a fact, meaningful. Others don’t find the game of fact-finding the most useful way to answer the question. In other words, everyone has his or her own way of addressing questions about the meaning of life, and of course, the many aspects and parts of life as well, including dreams and dreaming.

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