At all times, people attached great importance to dreams. Someone believes that nightly reference is a prediction of the future.
Others tend to trust science, and believe that dreams are the voice of the subconscious.
Can you not dream anything?
Meet a man who never seen dreams in my lifesimply impossible.
Some in the realm of Morpheus are confronted with monsters and their own phobias, others are watching how cherished desires come true, and the surrounding surreal landscapes are constantly taking a different look.
But there are people who claim that do not see dreams. Is it possible?
Sleep phases
Sleep consists of several phases, which during the rest can replace each other.
- Slow (deep sleep, during which a person does not see dreams, keeps still and breathes deeply, restoring strength).
- Fast (the phase lasts no more than 40 minutes, during which a person sees dreams, moves, breathes intermittently and can be mixed on the bed by changing poses).
The reasons
Why do not dream dreams man:
- Fatigue. The reason for the lack of dreams is often called a deep sleep. This is relevant only for isolated cases when a person is in an extreme degree of fatigue and moral exhaustion, which is why he literally “falls” into sleep.
- Lack of sleep. If a person is in a very uncomfortable position, lying on hard or too soft flooring, he cannot relax during sleep. His emotions, accumulated during the day, are not processed in the mind, and are not transformed into dreams.
- Sleeping pills. Sleeping pills work in such a way that after they are taken, the person completely “switches off”. Nerve impulses are blocked, and the “fast cycle” does not occur.
- Stress. Intense experiences on the eve, severe stress and bright negative emotions negatively affect the quality of sleep and exclude the possibility of dreams.
All this happens because with nervous tension a person does not fall into the fast phase of sleep.
- Diseases. Diseases of the heart and nervous system, problems with the respiratory system or general malaise on the background of any pathologies are directly related to the absence of dreams.
Do not dream dreams or people just do not remember them?
In the quick sleep phase, the person sees 4 to 6 dreams. But it is not always possible to remember them.
Dreams can be too realistic and devoid of brightness, which is why the human brain will not be able to identify them as information on which to focus attention.
Then the night visions will simply be erased from memory or the awakened individual will perceive them as events from the past, remaining only a vague memory.
There are and physiological reason that nightly dreams are forgotten.
If you wake the sleeper during the "slow cycle", he simply does not remember which pictures flashed in your head at night. As a result, the person will be convinced that he did not dream anything.
Sharp awakening can also cause "forgetfulness" in relation to night visions.
Additional factors:
- alcohol intoxication (during alcohol intoxication, the body throws all its strength at removing dangerous substances from the body, and the brain has difficulty remembering);
- depression (a depressive state negatively affects memory and distorts the emotions that are experienced);
- emotional burnout (if a person is in the “apathy zone”, he is not disturbed by the events of the outside world, which is why there is no intensive processing of the disturbing moments of the past day during sleep).
Is it good or bad?
What does it mean if a person does not dream?
If a person has dreams, but at the same time forgets them upon awakening, in this There is nothing bad or dangerous.
If you wish (and the right approach to the organization of sleep and the ritual of going to bed), the situation can be corrected.
But if the lack of dreams is due to the fact that a person does not enter the fast phase, unpleasant consequences.
Firstly, in the absence of a fast cycle, the body simply cannot fully relax and rest.
Also, a fast cycle allows you to relieve tension from the nervous system, to avoid emotional burnout.
Why does someone see, but not remember them?
Scientists who have studied this issue have proposed several theories.
Responsible for transferring information from short-term memory to long-term memory brain region (hippocomas) falls asleep last. Perhaps he also wakes up last.
Thus, immediately after waking up, a person’s sleep is in short memory.
But it does not fall into the long-term memory, because the hippocampus is not awakened, which means it cannot perform its functions.
In addition, during sleep, the hippocampus actively processes the information acquired during the day, sorts and distributes it. Because of this, to dreams, he becomes immune.
Another theory is critical neurotransmitter ratio. In a dream, the proportions of acetylcholine and norepinephrine vary (with respect to daily proportions). But these mediators are inextricably linked with the process of remembering and processing information.
The last theory is selective attitude of the brain to dreams. While awake, we may not remember which way we went to work, but at the same time we could clearly catch and imprint in memory the flower that had fallen into the way.
In the same way, during rest, the brain can pick out a small fragment of a vision, or it can skip past a full story.
What if I don’t dream anything at all and is it normal?
If the lack of dreams is disturbing and annoying, you can learn to control the process and memorize your dreamsUsing simple and accessible tips:
- Develop your creativity. To do this, you can embroider, paint, sculpt from clay and wax, sing and dance. Developed imagination and activity of a certain part of the brain will allow making dreams brighter, clearer and more expressive. As a result, nightly dreams will be remembered better and more efficiently.
- Try positive attitudes (affinity): "I remember all my dreams," "My dreams are pleasant and colorful." The brain will receive the order and respond to it.
If the feedback with consciousness is poorly developed, you need to train it. Gradually, the installation will begin to work.
- Avoid alcohol and abundant food before bedtime. So you do not just solve the problem with the lack of dreams, but also provide yourself with high-quality, complete rest.
- Capture your memories as soon as you wake up.. Some dreams, the emotions from which are particularly vivid after waking up, are forgotten after only a few minutes. It is important to have time to fix the memories, writing down all your thoughts on paper.
- Try to stick to optimal sleep patterns. A person should sleep 6-8 hours a day. Only under this condition will the sleep phases not mix and be disturbed.
- Watch your emotional health. Practice meditation, positive thinking and daily activity. Avoid stress and overload.
- Alternate the types of loads. If a person is engaged in physical labor during the day, it is necessary to take a break for intellectual work, and vice versa. It is enough to allocate 5-10 minutes several times a day for reading or walking.
- Generate emotions. If every day is similar to the previous one and the person is in a state of indifference, you can not wait for colorful dreams. After all, dreams are the result of our thoughts, experiences, etc.
You can bring diversity and emotions to life even with the help of small things: a new bright frame on your desktop, a leisurely walk along a new route, and acquaintance with your neighbors.
It may be emphasized that a person remembers his dreams during a fast cycle. Those. if a wake up in fast phase, the chance to restore detailed nightly dreams will increase significantly.
- Look for the best time to wake up. You can set the alarm at different times to “catch” the phase of REM sleep and, with the help of an external stimulus, return from the realm of Morpheus in time.
- Ask your loved ones to participate in the experiment. Let your relatives watch you from the side while you sleep. As soon as the breathing becomes shallow and intermittent, the arms and legs begin to move, and the eyes move under closed eyelids, the necessary phase has begun. You just have to wait a few minutes (so that the person has a dream), and then wake him up before the onset of the slow cycle.
- Lucid dreaming. This is a complex and voluminous topic, but with detailed immersion into the question and regular practice, one can learn to control both the sleep process itself and the dreams (their thematic content and storyline).
The dream world is mysterious and alluring. Sometimes it is so desirable that cherished dreams or impossible wishes come true at least in night dreams. And sometimes the subject of interest becomes deciphering mysterious visionswho appeared in the kingdom of Morpheus.
But in any case, it should be understood that dreams are only a by-product of reality, and therefore you should not get upset and worry about them.
What to do and how to return dreams:
