Why do we dream? Here are the three most interesting theories.

Why do we humans dream? Are dreams that we see in precious sleep to analyze, or are they merely reflections on the thoughts and experiences of the day? You might argue that you dream of cats and dogs, but we don't pay special attention to those dreams.

When a dog is sleeping and his legs tremble, we can assume he's dreaming of running. But no, his psychic is struggling with some irresponsible desire, or thinking about its existence. But human beings are much more complex.

We have complicated relationships, social networks, travel, interact daily with other people. We work, play, associate, build things, break things, and our dreams reflect all these things, and much more than that. Here are the three most fundamental and interesting theories on dreams.

Dreams are secret desires that we cannot accept ourselves

The most famous expert who used dreams as part of psychoanalysis was, of course, Sigmund Freyd. In his famous book “The interpretation of dreams”, Froydi argued they represent our unconscious desires. The basis of his theory is that most of our desires are completely innocent.

However, some are so inappropriate, or unacceptable to our consciousness, that we bury them in our subcontinents, those ring front in our dreams. Although Froed's dream theory has been rejected today, some experts are reviewing it, seeing amazing results.

And that's because of how the mind works, when we try to suppress our thoughts. When we try not to think about something, there are two psychological processes active. One who actively acts to suppress thought, and the other who observes it in the background.

Social psychologist Daniel Vanner tested the theory of thinking about dreams. He asked participants in an experiment to think of a person they knew and then write about him for 5 minutes.

Before sleeping at night, a group was specifically asked not to think of the person while the second group thought about him. Meanwhile, a third group was told to think about everything they wanted. In the morning all the groups had to remember the dreams they had experienced during the night.

The results clearly showed that the participants who were told to press their thoughts on the initially thought person had dreamed far more than those who were told to think truly about the person in question. So why do we dream? Does this experiment explain it? Freyd would argue that it is our unconscious mind that urges us during sleep to resolve issues we do not want to deal with.

Dreams Serve Our Survival

Finnish philosopher Anti Reponsuou argues that dreams allow us to incriminate threatening scenarios so that we can examine them in our minds to have advantages in real life. By playing these dangerous scenes, we can process rescue strategies and attack plans. We can practice the mental and physical abilities that we need in the real world.

So, how did Revonsu arrive at this conclusion? He examined the difference between the dreams of children who had suffered abuse and who had lived in war zones or hit by natural disasters and those with a relatively peaceful childhood. He discovered that traumad children really saw the worst dreams. This indicated that their environment was a major factor in the theme of their dreams.

Dreams, Our Traumatic Events Process

We know we need sleep in order to relax our physical bodies, but now experiments are discovering that the dream is essential to our mental well - being. A study recorded the brain activity of participants in an experiment as they looked at emotional shock images on the screen.

A group of participants went to sleep and had a good sleep before seeing the images for the second time. Their brain scan showed less activity in emotional areas. Instead, active was the area responsible for rational thinking.

Meanwhile, there was a much stronger emotional response to disturbing images from the second group of participants who were not allowed to sleep. The brain scan had confirmed more activity in areas related to emotional processing.

Scientists believe that dreams help in the process of traumatic events, due to a chemical change in the body, when we dream. During REM sleep, there is a dramatic reduction of impernephrine in the brain. This chemical in the brain is related to stress. /Bota.al