Dreams are basically stories and images that our mind creates while we sleep . They can be vivid. They can make you feel happy, sad, or scared. And they may seem confusing or perfectly rational.
Dreams can happen at any time during sleep. But you have your most vivid dreams during a phase called REM (rapid eye movement ) sleep when your brain is most active. Some experts say we dream at least four to six times a night.
So what happens when we dream?
There are five things happens when we dream
First, you see things that are not there, that means you were hallucinating.
You see things that can possibly be true so you were delusional
You can be confused about time and place so you're suffering from disorientation
You have wildly fluctuating emotional imbalances that are called effectively ambivalent.
You woke up and forget about most of your dream that is amnesia.
Researchers don't know for sure why dreams are easily forgotten. Maybe we’re designed to forget our dreams because if we remembered them all, we might not be able to tell dreams from real memories.
Many experts say dreams exist to:
Help solve problems in our lives
Incorporate memories
Process emotions
If you go to bed with a troubling thought, you may wake with a solution or at least feel better about the situation.
It’s said that time heals all wounds, but researchers suggests that time spent in dream sleep is what heals. REM-sleep dreaming appears to take the painful sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional episodes experienced during the day, offering emotional resolution when you awake the next morning.
REM sleep is the only time when our brain is completely devoid of the anxiety-triggering molecule noradrenaline. At the same time, key emotional and memory-related structures of the brain are reactivated during REM sleep as we dream. This means that emotional memory reactivation is occurring in a brain free of a key stress chemical, which allows us to re-process upsetting memories in a safer, calmer environment.
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