Have you ever wondered , What's going on inside our brains while sleeping? The scientific study of dreaming is called oneriology.
And dreaming is like a history, it didn't really exist, Because you can’t hold a dream.It's difficult to measure a dream, you can't taste it. You can't see other people's dreams, and if you ask them to tell you what they dreamt,the results are almost always unreliable.
What happen while dreaming ?
In fact, it's estimated that we forget 85 percent of the dreams we have, especially within the first ten minutes of having them. But then, in 1952, something amazing happened.Researchers at the University of Chicago found this. It's a unique type of electrical activity that occurs during a certain stage of a person sleeping. When researchers awoke people during this stage, they almost always reported that they had been dreaming. Also, at the same time, during this stage, people's eyeballs are going crazy,
rapidly darting all over the place underneath their eyelids. You can actually see this happening if you watch people sleep like I usually do. During REM sleep, some pretty bizarre stuff happens. If you look at the electrical activity of a brain that is in REM sleep, it almost exactly mimics the way the brain acts when it's awake. The biggest difference being that the production of chemicals inside the brain like norepinephrine, serotonin, and histamine is almost completely blocked,and that causes the muscles to stop moving,
which is why you can dream about flying or running around or fighting ninjas, but your body doesn't move.
People who have a disorder achieving complete REM atopia move around in their sleep and act out their dreams. They can even get out of bed and sleep walk.
Oh, before we move forward, we should know two things.
One is that it's possible to wake up and not be able to move your body because you're still in REM atopia. You're completely conscious and you know that you're awake, but your body is not ready to move.
On the flip side, you can also be inside a dream and know that you're dreaming. This phenomenon is known as lucid dreaming.
Lucid Dreaming.
Lucid dreaming is particularly attractive kind of dream than the normal one, because while in an illusive dream, we can make conscious decisions about what we do. we can go fly to wherever we want, or we can have a tea party with anyone you want may be angelina jolie. We in control, but achieving illusive dream is quite illusive. You need too much of practice to get this.
Researchers were able to deprive mice of REM sleep by using this inverted inside a tub of water way up to the tippy top,meaning that the mouse was only able to sit right on top of this little tiny surface. When that happens, the mouse can still fall into non-REM sleep, but as soon as they reach REM sleep and their muscles relax,they fall off the platform into the water waking up. What they found was that when mice are not allowed to achieve REM sleep,they have an incredibly amount of trouble remembering things.
This happens in humans too.If you have people remember word pairs and then you don't allow them to sleep, the next day, their memory for that stuff is incredibly terrible. But memory and REM does not stop there. If a person learns a difficult new task during the day, say a new instrument or a new type of difficult puzzle, you can measure the electrical activity in their brain while they do that, and then while they sleep that night, whether they know it or not, their brain replays those electronic impulses. Many popular theories about why we dream are variations on the idea that while we sleep, the unconscious part of our brain is busy organizing memories, and strengthening connections from the day before that we need in the future while getting rid of the junk that would otherwise clog the brain.
Why Dreams are so fantastic?
This would explain why dreams are often so fantastic and seemingly random. They're not supposed to make sense, they're not an actual message from our brain.It's just the results of our cortexes trying to synthesize the noise coming from all the work being done back in the unconsciousness. Under this way of thinking, dreams are an epiphenomenon. They're not a primary process that has a purpose. Instead, they're the accidental result of a more important process
going on behind the conscious brain. But some researchers don't believe that. They believe the dreams serve a primary purpose, and that purpose is to prepare us for threats. They think this because the most prevalent emotions felt during dreams are negative. Abandonment, anger, and the most common of all, anxiety. Theory goes like this: back when we were early humans especially, we had no idea what kind of threats we might encounter during the day. And so, to prepare us, our brain would simulate anxieties while we slept to make us better prepared for that feeling in the real world. So people who had terrifying dreams
were better at dealing with anxiety in the real world, and had stronger genes.All right, so the theories we discussed today are quite popular, but they don't really enjoy a consensus.Not everyone agrees on them, and they barely scratch the surface of scientific thought about dreams. But that's kind of the cool thing about dreams.Think of it like this. Here is the eagle nebula—a giant structure in outer space 6,500 light years away. Despite its distance, we pretty much know what it's made out of. We know that it's 100 trillion kilometers tall, we know what caused it, and we know where it's going to be in 750 million years.
But last night, I had dreams, and no one really knows why or for what reason. And that's pretty cool, and that's why— thanks for reading.
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