What makes us dream? let’s we explains -Erakina

What makes us dreams

• Dream are stories and pictures that our minds create while we sleep. They appear to be entertaining, fun, romantic, disturbing, frightening, and sometimes bizarre.
• They are a permanent source of mystery for scientists and psychological doctors. Why do dream occur? What causes them? Can we control them? What do they mean?

Causes

Dreams written in the sky in cloud form

• There are several theories about why we dream. Are dreams merely a part of the sleep cycle, or do they serve another purpose?

Possible explanations include

• Representing unconscious desires and needs.
• Interpretation of random signals from the brain and body occurring during sleep.
• Consolidating and processing information gathered during the day.
• Working as a style of psychotherapy.

From the evidence and new research methodologies, researchers have speculated that dreaming serves the subsequent functions:

• Offline memory reprocessing, within which the brain stores learning and memory tasks and records waking consciousness.
• Preparing for possible future threats.
• Cognitive simulation of real experiences, as dreaming may be a subsystem of the waking. default network, the part of the mind active during daydreaming.
• Helping develop cognitive capabilities.
• Reflecting unconscious mental function in a very psychoanalytic way.
• A unique state of consciousness that comes with the experience of the current, processing of the past, and preparation for the longer term.
• A psychological space where overwhelming, contradictory, or highly complex notions will be brought together by the dreaming ego, notions that may be unsettling while awake, serving the necessity for psychological balance and equilibrium.
• Much that is still unknown about dreams. they’re naturally difficult to review in an exceedingly laboratory, but technology and new research techniques may help improve our understanding of dreams.

What are dream?

Pegasus close to an archway

• Dreams are experienced by human universally and are described as a state of consciousness characterized by sensory, cognitive and emotional occurrences during sleep.
• The dreamer has almost no control over the content, visuals and activation of the memory.
• No state has been as extensively studied and yet as frequently misunderstood as dreaming.
• There are significant differences between the neuroscientific and psychoanalytic approaches to the analysis of dream.
• Neuroscientists have an interest in the structures involved in dream production, dream organization, and narratives. However, psychoanalysis concentrates on the meaning of dreams and tries to place them in the context of relationships which is present within the history of the dreamer.
• Reports of dream tend to be filled with emotional and vivid experiences containing various themes, concerns, dream figures, and objects that fit in closely with the ones in waking life.
• These elements create a unique “reality” out of seemingly nothing, thus producing an experience with a lifelike timeframe and connections.

Nightmares

Nightmares are distressing dreams that cause the dreamer to feel a variety of disturbing emotions. Common reactions include fear and anxiety.

They can occur in both adults and kids, and causes include:

• Stress
• Fear
• Trauma
• Emotional difficulties
• Illness
• Use of certain medications or drugs

Lucid dream

Person dreaming about fishing in between stars

• Lucid dreaming is termed when the dreamer is aware of their dreams. They will have some control over their dream.
• This measure of control can vary from dream to dream. They often occur within the middle of a daily dream when the sleeping person realizes suddenly that they’re dreaming.
• Some people experience lucid dreaming haphazardly, while others have reported having the ability to extend their capacity to manage their dreams.

Dream lag

• Dream-lag is when the photographs, experiences, or folks that emerge in dreams are images, experiences, or people you have seen recently, perhaps the previous day or every week before.
• The idea is that certain kinds of experiences take per week to become encoded into LTM, and a few of the pictures from the consolidation process will appear during a dream.
• Events experienced while awake are said to feature in 1 to 2 percent of dream reports, although 65 percent of dream reports reflect aspects of recent waking-life experiences.
• The dream-lag effect has been reported in dreams that occur at the REM stage but not in people who occur at stage 2.

Dream and therefore the senses

• Dreams were evaluated in people experiencing different kinds of headaches. Results showed people with migraine had an increased frequency of dreams involving taste and smell.
• This may suggest that the role of some cerebral structures, like the amygdala and hypothalamus, are involved in migraine mechanisms also within the biology of sleep and dreaming.
• Music in dreams is never studied in scientific literature. However, in an exceedingly large study of 35 professional musicians and 30 non-musicians, the musicians experienced twice as many dreams featuring music, compared with non-musicians.
• Musical dream frequency was associated with the age of commencement of musical instruction but not the daily load of musical activity. Nearly half the recalled music was non-standard, suggesting that original music is created in dream.

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