So I had a dream last night

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and in it, I realized that I had to poop.

so I got to a toilet, sat down and did my thing

and I pooped

and pooped

and pooped

and pooped

and pooped....




until I thought it was physically impossible to poop more, I got up


and then I realized

I had to poop more.

so I ran back to the toilet

and pooped

and pooped

and pooped

and pooped

and pooped

I think this "get up" and then run back and poop more might have happened a few more times

so I just pooped more.


and then eventually I woke up, and oddly enough upon awakening I did not have to poop at all.



how bizarre.
 
when you dream, your brain has a way to prevent yourself from doing any movement in reaction from something occuring in your dreams. There's a way to disable that function though by removing a certain part of the brain, and that's how we discovered animals also dream (the cat was dreaming of running after a mouse and was really running and attacking an imaginary mouse)
 
I should get back to my psychology books, but they were explained in the same way, the brain forgot to prevent the body from doing anything while sleeping.
 
Sleep theory is beyond complicated.

I'd say mind-activation due to lack of stimuli, but a plethora of theories exist.