For thousands of years, people were fascinated by dreams.
“What a strange and strange experience, is to throw in these virtual worlds where we meet with people, and interact with them, where we can feel all kinds of feelings”, Antonio Zadra, a sleeping and dream researcher at the University of Montreal, framed in a recent interview.
Today, the researchers continue to search for answers about how we dreamed and why, as the increasing evidence dreaming of our health is related.
In the late nineteenth century, scientists began to interrogate the nervous foundation of dreams. In 1893, Psychologist Mary Calcins led a sleep study by candles, raising the participants – one man, one woman – throughout the night to ask whether they dreamed and described the vitality of their dreams.
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From Calcins to Freud
Kalins was the first to measure the elements and the timing of dreams.
I found that dreams have generally occurred at the present time, and “when the dream was in the childhood home, or about a person who had not been seen for many years, the dreamer’s age was not reduced to avoid a historical paradox. … it is clear that the dream is related to vigilance life, and – – In the experience of these observers – usually with modern life.
But shortly after the work of Calins, attention turned to what dreams mean, at least partially because of Sigmund Freud.
Starting in 1900, the founder of psychoanalysis gave a dream in the context of pent -up desires. Freud wrote, for example, that some dreams of anxiety arise “in psychological sexual excitement, in which case, anxiety is compatible with pent -up sexual desire.” If someone dreamed of the death of a family member who is still living, Freud believed that “the dreamer wished them his death at some point or another during his childhood.”
Interest turned again with the discovery of fast eye movement (REM) for 1953 and subsequent note that when people wake up from Rem, they often have a living dream. Research has since showed that a dream can occur in several stages of sleep. Even people who have lesions in the brain or take medications that still dream all.
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Wandering
Although some patterns of electrical activity in the brain have been linked to the presence or lack of a dream, there is no specific vital sign indicating that the person dreams about it. Over the past decade, the increasing interest of the virtual mode network – a group of brain areas that become active when the person’s mind wanders, for example, while staring at the window.
“Many of the most modern models of the cause of our dream are linked to dreams as a form of intensification of the mind wandering,” he said. But why do we dream still the point of disagreement in this field.
One of the long -standing hypothesis is that the dream is a way to simulate potential threats, and prepare us at the risk that may come on our way.
“But many dreams have no physical or psychological threats,” he said. He said he believes that we dream of understanding our experiences in waking up in the context of our past, and extracting in the connected communications in a loose way – which allows us to do so.
He said: “When you wake up, things are combined with your understanding of yourself, to the world, your place in it, in strange and unrelated ways.” “What does that help you? It helps you to predict, or better, adapting to what awaits us.”
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Emotional therapy
Another main explanation is that it helps us to address and organize our emotions.
Sarah Medina, a cognitive scientist at the University of California in Irvin, said that she sees dreams as “a safe place where we can offer emotionally charged experiences”, then we play the possibilities. She said: “What you see is more exciting during dreams, but then you also see calming the excitement system during a dream time.”
In her research, Mednick found that for people who suffered from a negative emotional event, it can help them get the attached feelings.
“If you dream about an event, you will keep a detailed memory for this event, but you will also have, over time, emotional excitement when you think about this event,” she said.
MEDNICK also looks at dreams as a kind of “overnight treatment”, citing the sleep study that, among the divorced people, those who dreamed of their former marriage have less depressive symptoms after one year. She said that the dream could have “nice long -term effects on a healthy relationship with your emotional past.”
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Visions
But some people go through life never remember the dream. In sleep studies where the participants are raised every five minutes throughout the night, they may report dozens of dreams, and therefore the person who suffers from Algeria’s obstacles throughout the night may remember more of their dreams.
Zadra said, interest in a dream can also affect whether you remember it.
“If you wake up normally, there is a greater opportunity to wake up from the sleep of the remin.” Waking up during Rem increases the risk of being in the midst of a dream. Zhang suggested writing the dreams you remember as soon as you wake up, and studies show that doing so improves the dream.
Dreams can provide an insight into a person’s luxury.
Zadra said that the most tense or anxious people “have more negative dreams and more negative dream content.” They have more aggressive reactions in dreams than friendly reactions. They have more hostilities, they have more failure to succeed. But as a person’s welfare improves, there are similar changes in the content of their dreams. “
“Many of [people with] Zhang, who began investigating the role of a dream in psychological groups, especially people, especially people, especially people, especially people, especially people, not with schizophrenia.
If someone has a trauma disorder suffers from nightmares when repeated, “they have a worse diagnosis in terms of symptoms of PTSD. It is an indication that the system does not adapt as it can.” But this can be reformulated as an opportunity for someone to seek help. “They need treatment, need a drug, and they need something,” he added.
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