Dreams, according to people, are not as important as what happens in reality. But dreams are important information that comes from our subconscious.
If a person knows how to decipher messages, then dreams can help him in any sphere of life. Sometimes, for example, if a person dreams of the same thing, it means that he receives a signal to think about it - perhaps there are some unresolved problems that need to be solved. Some in dreams get answers to exciting questions ...
Dreams never lie to us, we can deceive our mind, but the subconscious always knows what is really needed. From the article you will learn about strange intersections of dreams and reality.
10. Strange dreams are sorting
People who suffer from amnesia, like everyone else, remember what is happening, but cannot remember. Then the brain scrolls through these events in a dream. Strange dreams (for example, a planet flies up to you, you sit on it and fly away somewhere) can be explained by the fact that the brain is trying to find connections between different stimuli.
The brain finds the memory “file” associated with the planet and compares what you know about the flights — this is done in order to find out whether it is worth storing them together. Sometimes it’s really connected, and sometimes it’s not.
Interestingly, the weirder the dream, the more active the brain is in seeking communication.
9. Dreams are schizophrenia that everyone has.
The dream is very reminiscent of the state of a schizophrenic, just a patient in the afternoon forgets to turn off this strange condition. At night, when we dream, each of us plunges into a schizophrenic state, madness.
Fantastic dreams may mean that you have weak connections in the brain - the brain tries to extract something specific, but instead receives incoherent pictures that become a strange dream.
People with schizophrenia feel the activation of weak bonds at any time, which is why in the waking state they experience the same thing as a sleeping dreamer.
8. Nightmares affect mood
If you are suffering and experiencing depression, ask yourself: “Do I have nightmares?” Researchers in their field are convinced that the psychological state of a person is caused by what dreams he has and vice versa.
If a person is depressed and has depression, most likely he will dream of horrors. It turns out that nightmares can cross the border of sleep and wakefulness.
If nightmares bother you, there’s no need to rush to see a doctor. First you need to make sure that there are no external stimuli that cause them.
7. With the help of smells you can change your dreams
It is already known that external stimuli can invade a dream. For example, if a person wants to drink, then he will dream about how he drinks, and if you turn on the bright light, he may dream of sunny weather.
Smells also greatly affect the content of sleep. During the study, the sleeping participants were let into the nose through a special tube different smells: rotten eggs or flowers, and then they asked them what they dreamed about. Those who were supposed to smell the eggs said that the emotional background of the dream worsened.
For example, one of the participants dreamed of a Chinese woman who was disgusted with him.
6. A dream can predict the future.
How is this possible? We will try to explain in simple terms the "law of large numbers." For example, if a horoscope says that a person on the zodiac sign Taurus will try a new dish on Saturday, then, given the huge number of Taurus in the world, one of them will definitely do it.
If in other words - when we put together many factors, there is a chance that something that was not expected will happen.
This hypothesis is difficult to prove, but it is possible that someday people will be able to predict the future through dreams.
5. Dreams are frequent guests, just not everyone remembers them
It is believed that we see the most vivid dreams only during the REM phase. Given that this phase occurs every 90 minutes, each of us sees a huge amount of dreams during the night.
We do not remember boring dreams, but only those that seemed interesting and unusual to us. The rest are similar to reality - for example, in a dream we can do cleaning or take a walk.
Crazy dreams are remembered in the same way as a strange situation in life.
4. Loneliness makes dreams more frequent
Our relationship with the outside world affects dreams. Uncertain people see dreams almost every night, and they remember them in detail.
Confident people are less likely to remember dreams. It is also interesting that people suffering from self-doubt see more painful and frightening dreams.
This can be explained by the fact that the temporal lobe “fills the void” of those people who have no relationships and who do not feel affection for anyone.
3. Video games help bring about lucid dreaming.
Many people want to cause a lucid dream, because it opens up enormous opportunities for a person - this is a state in which a person understands that he is in a dream and can control what is happening.
A lot of books have been written in which the authors share their advice on how to induce a lucid dream. But, as it turns out, everything is much simpler - just get carried away with video games.
The sensations that a person experiences during the game are related to how he perceives the dream. Therefore, gamers are much easier to realize themselves in a dream.
2. Animals, like people, remember their dreams
An interesting experiment was conducted with rats - when they ran in a circle, the activity of their brain corresponded to a strict pattern.
When the rat brain was examined while they were sleeping, it was found that its activity was repeated during the REM phase - in their dream, the animals continued to run in a circle.
Scientist Matthew Wilson believes that the task of the dream is to reinforce the memory. It’s easier for people to remember what they learned before going to bed.
1. Amnesia sufferers see strange dreams
In a dream, memories of the forgotten can return to people suffering from amnesia. For example, it may be some skills that they possess, but do not remember about it.
Waking up, people can be overwhelmed by the sense of discovery, but soon what they see is again forgotten. After some time, the same thing will be dreamed of, and a person with amnesia will feel this, as for the first time.
A person who has amnesia sees objects in his dreams very strange, because he can not remember where and when he saw them in reality.