Every person, a millionaire, and a poor man is regularly dreaming. But why do we dream? Scientists minds still have not answered this question. The only thing that is known for sure - dreams are an important physiological need of a person. Like food or healthy sleep.
What Do We Know About Dreams?
Professor Michael D. Cole, a researcher of human consciousness, describes dreams like this: "This is a kind of bridge between what a person wants and what he has."
Being at the junction of perception, thinking, and memory, the dream has clear characteristics:
- She is conscious and has an emotional color;
- It is personal;
- It is manifested through imagination;
- Over time, it develops and details.
Sigmund Freud believed that dreams are the same dreams, but flow during wakefulness. The psychologist also suggested that fantasy is a systematic cyclical process. This hypothesis is confirmed by studies, during which people were approached at the moments of dreams. In these moments, psychoanalysts recorded an increased level of aggression in them, similar to the irritability of a newly awakened person.
Recently, neuroscientists have discovered the neural structure of dreaminess. Scientists have noticed that certain brain structures of research participants intensified in moments of sweet dreams. When participants switched to solving cognitive tasks, the intensity of the activities of these structures weakened. Trying to determine the location of the brain areas, the researchers found that the brain networks responsible for fantasy are located in several areas of the frontal cortex.
Why Do We Dream?
In the academic world, the most popular version is that dreams are the result of psychological trauma. Psychologists say that fantasies soften the feeling of inferiority, serve as a way of emotional discharge and psychological neutralization of deep insults.
So, the dislike of parents in childhood can turn into a dream of becoming famous and beloved, and the accusations of the boss - contribute to the desire to build a stunning career. Soviet psychologist Boris Dodonov claims that 70% of dreams are caused by negative experiences in the past. Through dreams, the brain heals itself from the stress experienced. Plunging into the world of fantasy, he does the most difficult work of assimilating the experience gained. This process is the result of thousands of years of evolution.
Often fantasy becomes a way of compensating for aggression. In dreams, a person takes revenge on the offender. Without violating the established social framework, through the imagination, people experience the whole range of experiences associated with the restitution of offenses.
Dreams are also a response of the brain to success and recognition. Images are drawn in imagination motivate for further exploits and increase faith in one's own strength.
Other Versions
According to one theory, pleasant fantasies save the brain from unnecessary information. Minor sensory details, such as the color of the pants of colleagues, become an unnecessary background for our brain, firmly fixed in the subconscious. Dreams push out excess information and increase the efficiency of the brain.
The ancient thinkers had their own version of this. In their opinion, dreams were the message of the gods and allowed a person to plunge into the world, where he could get what he lacked in real life.
Psychoneurologist John Allan Hobson is confident that dreams, like dreams, reflect the dark side of human consciousness. Neurochemical processes and electrical impulses that occur in the brain in moments of fantasy are similar to the activity during REM sleep.
Psychologists agree that the objects of dreams depend on the degree of satisfaction with life and on the nature of dreams. Scientists at York University during the study of men and women of different ages asked respondents to talk about the brightness and frequency of their fantasies. The frequency of dreams for men is directly dependent on the level of satisfaction with life. In women, life satisfaction influenced the brightness of fantasies, but not frequency. Respondents who said that they were more satisfied with their lives dreamed of the welfare of their relatives and friends. At the same time, lonely and socially unprotected people, unhappy with the state of things in life, fantasized about book characters, romantic adventures, and strangers.
Thus, the dream becomes a source of saturation with the desired emotions and experiences. In a situation of “emotional” hunger, it fills life with colors and compensates for the lack of real impressions.
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