Idk...i saw on a documentary about Evolution years ago .. im not a scientist so this are not my studies
i think Is true...if you believe on darwin's theories about the humans apes-like
becouse Is something before "homo sapiens"
I think a lot of evolution studies are about fitting things into the core theory to bump it up instead of making real studies about them. It's more like trying to prove things by evolution than proving evolution by things.
I mean, people look at certain psychological things and if it can be fit in the general idea of evolution, then it must be because of some exotic reason from 100,000 years ago, when in reality it could just be all about how we have started to sense things after we've been born. The "falling from the tree" could be explained by just figuring that most of us have some kind of fear of death in that none of us wants to fall down from a cliff to our deaths. When we are dreaming we are in a state where we are really sensitive to our deepest hidden and instinctual thoughts and if we have some issue or a bit of stress lingering in our thoughts either us knowing or not knowing it, it's likely that in that state we might get this sudden sense of falling down that represents and reminds us of trouble.
Now, you could say that's because we had to fight animals when we were monkeys, but it would be just about the general sense of fear and survival and not about us being on trees and the sense and fear of falling from a tree somehow has spread as a mental image from 100000 years ago to today. I'm not saying our feeling of fear today couldn't come from passing genes that make people more prone to being alert and fearful when facing danger from pre homo sapiens time, but making these specific speculations of "it's because we used to be on trees and were scared of falling down we still have this scary falling down sensation when we sleep." Our own life experiences in current world are in my opinion enough to explain these dream things.
As much as I have these sudden falling down sensations that wake me up, I also have these sudden sensations of some big ball like thing (like a meteor or just an actual football) coming fast at my face and I'm shook up by that just as much as I'm shook up by suddenly thinking I'm falling. Would love to hear a theory on how we 100000 years ago had to be afraid of not getting a coconut on our faces and that's why I just week ago jumped out my bed in fear just as I was about to fall asleep
Nah, I think that's mostly because that's one of the things I've been experiencing and been scared of when I was a kid and I could project a lot of what's in my conscious and subconsious mind into that sensation.
I'm talking out of my ass obviously here, but I think what we experience and sense in our own lives affects to what we experience when we sleep or about to fall asleep makes much more sense than thinking everything comes from some past experiences some pre-humans hundreds of thousands of generations ago have experienced.
I think we can believe in humans coming from apes without going that far in speculation of what we experience at night.
But again, I'm talking out of my ass here and I'm not a scientist either so I could be wrong