The dream helps to ease mental pain

When we get sad or stressed, we often go to sleep to be relieved. Recently, American scientists confirmed that dreaming really helps us overcome sadness.

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According to a team at the University of California at Berkeley, in dreams, our brains handle emotional experiences and this helps to remove painful memories. Professor Els van der Helm, co-author of the study, explained that when dreaming - ie rapid eye movement (REM), memories will be recreated and linked together in the state of stress chemicals. decrease towards the body.

In the study, 35 healthy and young volunteers were divided into 2 groups and showed 150 sensational pictures, repeated twice and 12 hours apart. Group 1 was first seen in the morning and second in the evening, without sleeping between the two views. Group 2 first saw the picture in the evening and the second time in the early morning, after a long sleep. Results and emotions of group 2 significantly decreased in the second view, after getting up. Magnetic resonance imaging shows that sleep causes their areas of emotional processing to decrease and during sleep, the stress hormone levels also decrease. Professor Matthew Walker - co-author of the study - concluded that dreams are effective therapies that help us eliminate sad memories of the previous day.