Things you may not know about the dream

Sleep sleep is a common phenomenon for every person, but do you understand anything about your dream?

You are sleepy, your mind is gradually becoming vague. Then you sink into sleep. In fact, sleep is the time for the body to rest, recover the damage and be one of our energy recharge processes. However, not all cells in the body are be rested when we are falling asleep. In some people, when they fall asleep, they still see images, their ears seem to hear noises. Dreams are the clearest evidence telling us that the brain is still active even when we think the whole body is resting.

Sleep itself is one of the most undiscovered phenomena and, of course, dreams - a part of sleep - are also a factor that we cannot understand yet. Why do some people have dreams, some who are deep in the silence of sleep? Why exist beautiful dreams, why exist nightmares? For years, scientists have tried to go deep into the human brain , trying to find a satisfactory explanation for these difficult questions.

In this article, we will learn more about dreams and some studies of scientists around the world about dreams. Last night, what was your dream like?

1. The impact of dreams

If you had a dream about winning a lottery or accident, would you be prepared to receive it in real life? Certainly many people will nod to this answer.

Based on a published study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , we learn that people don't simply remember and think about dreams. In fact, many people see dreams as foreshadowing for what will happen in the future according to each person's understanding and beliefs.

In an experiment in Boston, 182 people had to try to imagine four situations: the national level of alarm increased; they think about falling planes; they have a dream about falling planes; A plane they plan to book tickets actually falls. Finally, the results from this group of people are situations when they dream of a crashed plane affecting their minds, making them more stressful than the other three situations.

2. Nightmare really is an omen

The dreams themselves are the prediction for the future is no longer what will take a lot of research time. However, nightmares are really an omen for us.

Nightmares are often the cause of people screaming, screaming, kicking, kicking, crying during sleep even a few dozen minutes after awakening. Dreams that lead to such violent behavior are a bad sign, warning us of some kind of deviation and malfunction happening in the mind, the brain including parkinsonism and dementia, schizophrenia.

In a study published on July 28, 2010 in the journal Neurology, researchers showed that the early stages of brain diseases can be identified and happened long before being The doctor or the patient himself can find out.

3. Staying up late - Sleeping early can affect dreams

Being awake at night and sleeping day many people want to do and are proud of being a 'night owl '. However, your dreams will be greatly affected if you are an active person in the stillness of the night. In an article in Sleep and Biological Rhythms , scientists have shown that night owls often have nightmares than those who sleep early.

Although researchers cannot understand why people who stay up at night are more likely to have nightmares (even if the sleep duration is approximately the same), however, the numbers in the statistics table are given. see this clearly. The most plausible explanation for this phenomenon is cortison hormone - a stress hormone - especially secreted in the morning, and if you are undergoing deep sleep at this time, you will be easy encounter nightmares.

4. Dreams help the brain solve problems

Sometimes, you get in trouble, hard things in your life and in a beautiful morning, you start to wake up with the answer you just found in your dream.

According to psychologist at Harvard University, Mrs. Deirdre Barrett, the hours of immersion in sleep can help us find solutions to questions that, in daylight, we cannot find. According to her, it is the illogical world in dreams that is an ideal area to help our minds work. In a dream, the human mind is no longer limited by any barrier and can overcome the limits that we cannot step through the day.

After all, although in the dream, the brain is still active but sleep and dreams are necessary conditions for the brain to be able to recharge, relax, and help us be ready to solve problems. threads of life. Perhaps, it is at this time, when the brain still has enough energy, people have the ability to think and reason the best way.

5. The dream of women and men

According to psychologist Jennie Parker at West of England University, men often have more sexual dreams , while women often experience nightmares .

Women's nightmares can be classified into 3 categories: scary dreams; dreams of loss in love or loved ones disappear; dreams difficult to explain. Not only are there more numbers of nightmares, women's bad dreams are also judged to cause more emotions than men's dreams of the same type.

However, this does not mean that women's dreams do not contain ' fun' parts. According to a study from 2007 about dreams, out of 3500 women's dreams, about 8% of dreams are related to sex.

6. You can control dreams

Certainly many people have heard of dreams in which the dreamer can control all activities or elements that occur in the dream.Provincial dreams (Lucid dream) are something that many people want to achieve because they are dreams that we are not only testers but also creators, in these dream worlds, we like powerful, powerful gods.

So how do you get provincial dreams? You can surf the web and find many methods to get into a provincial dream, however, the simplest method is to practice the brain for a long time so we can control the world. This virtual.

7. Dream of awareness first

The results of several large population surveys show that from 18% to 38% of people experience at least one dream of pre-awareness, and 70% feel suspicious. The percentage of people who believe in dreams is very high - from 63% to 98%.

8. Children's dreams

Children do not see themselves in dreams until three years old. Children aged 3 to 8 have dreams, but most are nightmares. At this age, they see more nightmares than adults in their entire lives.

9. The dream of the blind

Blind people have very vivid dreams

Congenital blind people can see dreams as images. Although they have never seen things, their dreams are full of sound, taste and feeling.

10. Dreams of people who used to smoke

People who used to smoke often had deeper and more realistic dreams than others. Usually, they dream of starting smoking again, so they begin to feel guilty.

11. Dreams are not literally

Our subconscious uses language signs and symbols. Therefore, you should not think that every dream must have a reasonable outcome with a rich story and a literal meaning. The subconscious is sending us signals but not necessarily clear images.

12. Not everyone sees colors in dreams

Black and white colors in every dream

About 12% of the population only dreamed of a black and white dream. The rest can see colors. In addition, some groups of people dream about typical dreams: situations at school or at work, trying to escape persecution, falling, death, tooth loss, flight, exam failure, ears accident, .

13. You dream about exactly what you have seen

In a dream, you may meet strangers, but our minds cannot imagine their faces. These faces are completely real people, people you've seen at least once in your life that you don't remember.

14. Dream to prevent mental disorders

Recently, the researcher conducted the experiment: the subjects were allowed to sleep for 8 hours, but they were awakened in the early stages of each sleep. After three days, all of them were difficult to concentrate, had confusing hallucinations and irritability, these were early signs of a mental disorder. So if you are deep asleep, have dreams, mental disorders will be prevented.