The Associative Neural Network and Dreams

The brain is a natural storyteller, so things get tied together as best they can. The storyline drifts from thing to thing in a way that's not quite like the real world because it's activity that's moving through this associative neural network. We experience whatever is getting triggered in whatever order. So it's tied to our experience from the day and of the world we know, but it's a very loose sort of story.