The confusing data of our dreams and why we turn them into a story.

Our dream plots are woven into a pattern/story/narrative
from essentially random activity.

That feeling of being
chased and falling of a cliff (one of my favourites) or
an intruder entering the house and you screaming, 'Police
Police' and running down the road
as if you were an aged spinster (this particular dream
causes my children to laugh uproariously so alien is it
to their conception of me).
However, it would seem that the disparate data of the dream
process, whether it be bizarre (in my case) or what you deem
 to be some kind of epiphany, is engineered into a narrative
or dynamically woven into a pattern, so that when
we wake up the next morning, we can tell our children
after "What did you do next, Dad."
"I ran down the street screaming."
Cue for the family to fall about laughing.
The pattern making of our dreaming process is driven by
an evolutionary process that necessitates that the brain
makes sense of random data, and the brain does so
by concocting a story, a pattern, so that we can act
on such and the evolutionary process, in making sense
of it, can continue its evolutionary march.
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