Dreaming takes up an average of two hours of a night's sleep, which lasts 7.5 hours. Everyone dreams, but many people do not remember their dreams. If a sleeper is awakened in the middle of REM sleep, he will remember very vivid dream. If he is awakened 5 minutes after the end of the REM period, he will have only a vague memory of the dream, and if he is awakened 10 minutes later, he will not remember anything at all.

Often in our dreams we see the most unexpected, sometimes funny, sometimes scary, and even ridiculous pictures and events. When we wake up, we are surprised: “I’ll dream about something like this!” And some, recalling what they saw, see in it some mysterious, perhaps prophetic, meaning. And they are trying to find an interpretation for it.

At all times, starting from ancient times, people have thought about the meaning of dreams. The content of dreams was considered essential in the interpretation of past and current events, as well as in predicting the future. For example, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar (605-562 BC) demanded for himself not only an explanation of his dreams, but also reminders of his more early dreams, which he might have forgotten over time. This was not just a whim of those in power, but the kind of human needs that are associated with his nature: not to ignore the mystery of the phenomenon encountered, especially since it is directly related to the person himself and accompanies him throughout his life.

How does science explain dreams?

Throughout the 20th century, psychologists tried to find a scientific explanation for dreams. Scientists have long expressed thoughts that there is nothing mysterious in dreams, that they are the result of the revival of what was actually experienced in a dream.

The founder of psychoanalysis, the Austrian Sigmund Freud, suggested that dreams symbolize a person’s unconscious needs and concerns. He argued that society requires us to suppress many of our desires. We cannot influence them and sometimes we are forced to hide them from ourselves. This is an unhealthy and subconscious desire to find balance, to present one's desires to the conscious mind in the form of dreams, thus finding an outlet for suppressed needs.

Freud's Swiss colleague Carl Gustav Jung saw various dream images as symbols full of meaning, each of which could be interpreted differently according to the overall context of the dream. He believed that in the waking state the subconscious mind perceives, interprets and learns from events and experiences, and during sleep communicates this “internal” knowledge to the conscious mind through a system of simple visual images. He tried to classify dream images according to their symbolic meaning. He believed that the symbols in the dream imagery system are inherent to all humanity, that they were formulated during the evolutionary development of the human brain and were passed down through generations.

This view was best expressed by I.M. Sechenov, who called dreams “an unprecedented combination of experienced impressions.”

Completely comprehend internal mechanism, the physiology of dreams was helped by the doctrine of higher nervous activity, and in particular the disclosure of the features of the inhibition process. Experiments have shown that the transition of a nerve cell in the cerebral cortex from a state of excitation to complete inhibition and back occurs through a series of intermediate, so-called hypnotic phases. When sleep is deep, there are no dreams, but if for one reason or another the strength of the inhibitory process in individual cells or areas of the brain weakens and complete inhibition is replaced by one of the transition phases, we see dreams. The paradoxical phase is especially interesting. Cells in this phase respond to weak stimuli much more strongly than to strong ones, and sometimes stop responding to the latter altogether. For cortical cells in the paradoxical phase, a half-erased imprint of a long-standing experience or impression can play the role of a weak irritant, and then what seemed long forgotten awakens in our brain a colorful and exciting image that we see as if in reality.

Against the background of various inhibitions during sleep, those smoldering excitations in our brain that are associated with desires and aspirations that persistently occupy us during the day often flare up brightly. This mechanism (which physiologists call the revival of dormant dominants) underlies those frequent dreams when we see actually fulfilled what we only dream about in reality.

Why is everything so whimsical and confusing in dreams, why is it rarely possible to grasp any logic in the kaleidoscope of dream visions? This is explained by the features brain activity during sleep, which differs sharply from the orderly functioning of the brain in the waking state. When a person is awake, a clear, critical attitude towards the environment, his own actions and thoughts is ensured by the coordinated work of the cerebral cortex as a whole. In a dream, brain activity becomes chaotic and unconnected: the overwhelming mass of the cerebral cortex is in a state of complete inhibition, with areas interspersed here and there nerve cells who are in one of the transitional hypnotic phases; In addition, the inhibitory process moves along the cortex, and where there was just complete inhibition, partial disinhibition suddenly occurs, and vice versa. What happens in the brain at this time can be compared to a picture of a dark August sky, in which here and there the lights of heaven flare up, run across and go out.

What are dreams made of?

During sleep, practically no information from outside enters the brain (the sleeper's eyes are closed, hearing becomes incomplete). But at this time, brain activity switches to so-called internal information.

Internal information is varied. First of all, its source is the remainder of the previous day. It includes everything and literally everything that we saw, heard, thought, experienced from the moment we woke up until we went to sleep. Scientific evidence shows that it takes 24-28 hours for information to be retained in memory. It turns out that everything that enters our brain at this moment is still stored and is in a state of subtle memory, although it seems to us that we do not remember something. At the same time, all incoming information does not have a logical sequence; it constantly and dramatically changes. All this leaves traces in memory (“cortical nerve traces” - Pavlov), which in turn vary in size and depth.

During sleep, out of all this confusion, a chain of logically constructed video images begins to be compiled - a dream. The dream is reflected on our screen, which is located in the back of the brain. And since the eyes (cameras) and ears (voiceover) do not send information, i.e. sleep, then purely internal information appears on the screen. If there are no problems, then a simple dream follows from this; if there is, then everything depends on the brightness of expression, longitude - the resulting picture either shows the problem, or what such a problem will lead to.

The logic of construction is the same that a person uses during his waking hours - this is the logic of representing the surrounding world in its natural flow. If a car is driving along the road in reality, then by the same logic it will move in the same way in a dream, but not at all through the air or in some other unnatural way.

The brain looks for connections between itself and information flows and arranges them in pictures. This happens similar to a lesson when the teacher from keywords“house”, “murder”, “green”, “daisy”, “shadow”, “perm”, “coffee”, “pity” invites students to compose a story. Even so, given the same background information, people's stories will differ from each other. Fantasy and logical thinking Each individual is different; similar in general, but they differ in details.

Thus, without exception, all the details of the dream can be found in the rest of the previous day. The difficulty is that we cannot remember everything; Most of us do not even remember the characteristic features of the past day. We can't remember what we did.

The inversion of words into concepts with opposite meanings also brings great confusion. For example, a visible pillar may float up as a column of dust. Moreover, a person can individually associate some things with something else. This is more typical for slang words; for example, if in reality a person saw an oak tree, then in a dream this can transfer to the quality of the abilities of a certain person seen. And yet the main share falls on real information received yesterday, as one to one.

In persons suffering from severe forms of mental disorders, dreams are and will be devoid of any logical direction. They have their own logic - mixed, the predominant task is to mix rather than combine.
And finally, internal information is overlaid with anxieties, haunting fears, and excessive mental and physical worries. Added to the purely informational field are our feelings, signals of organ pain, and beliefs that determine the nature of the dream picture. They are more constant over time, which means they are fixed more deeply.

In sleep, while sorting out the remains of the day, our brain is under the weight of these feelings, trying to imagine a vision subject to logic, but due to the anxieties that interfere with it, it gets confused. Some image or action is distorted. We have a nightmare, and this should definitely serve as a signal to reconsider our attitude towards previous feelings. There comes a time when you need emergency actions. Otherwise, repetitions, cycling, mental disorders are possible, when returning to the starting position will require significantly more money, time and effort.

What is the role of dreams in human life?

Let us present some theories that have a certain logic behind them.

1. The purpose of dreams is to sort information into necessary and useless and to sort out the “nerve traces” of information deposits into places. Like a tape recording that we erase when we no longer need it, and then record something else in its place. In our case, information for the next day.

2. The visual construction of a dream is a test, an exercise of the brain before wakefulness, which is expressed in its ability to short term from incoherent details, make a coherently constructed film, based on the plot of which you can check the correctness of its work and the degree of possible overload.

3. A dream is our inner psychoanalyst, speaking in images. This is the kind of book that needs to be read between the lines, looking for the hidden logic that follows from the “rest of the day” that precedes the night. If, for example, a person dreams that he is building a high-rise building, this is nothing more than an element of his daily experiences due to the lowliness of his position. The main thing in this dream is not the plot, but the feelings (the desire to assert oneself, perk up, etc.).

4. Dreams play an important role as a transitional stage from sleep to wakefulness.

Dreams can affect the human body in quite strange ways. The influence of dreams on humans was noticed by the ancients. Galen, who was engaged in medical activities, encountered a patient who had a dream where his leg seemed to be made of stone. After some time, leg paralysis occurred. The French neurologist Lhermitte encountered another example. The patient in the dream felt a snake bite on his leg. After several days, an ulcer formed in that place. There are many such examples. Or no less vivid examples how the “subconscious mind” really helps to solve some problems in a dream (let us at least remember the well-known fact of Mendeleev’s discovery of the periodic table). Perhaps, in such a surprising way, real internal sensations hidden in the memory from the events of the previous day were revealed.

It would not be bad if we knew exactly what makes prophetic dreams possible. However, we have a problem, which is expressed not at all in the fact that we do not know how to explain it, but in the fact that we do not know exactly how to explain it in terms of hundreds of theories and assumptions, many of which deserve some attention, if only because come from pundits.

It's funny, but the problem really lies in the difficult choice of one theory. It may be that looking for one explanation is fundamentally wrong, since there can be two, or even three, four, and even much more at the same time. In my purely personal opinion, that’s how it is.

Why do I think this? The fact is that a dream is not a string that weighs a wash barrel, and its structure, functioning and origin are thousands of times more complex. Moreover, a prophetic dream, like an ordinary dream, in most cases, is not just one thing or brain function. What we see at night is the result of the activity of many completely different systems of the central nervous system, each of which has its place due to various factors.

If we project such a situation onto a prophetic dream, then here is an exaggerated description of the three main systems involved in it and the conditions necessary for them:

• we first find ourselves in a dream (1), then other factors make the plots spin before us (2), and third factors make these plots line up in the image of unconscious calculations (3), which produce the product in the form of a prophetic dream. And this is only the most general and truly exaggerated description. In fact, there is an interaction between a huge number of components.

Suffice it to say that the prophetic nature of a dream is determined by a number of factors and properties of the brain. These are the ones we will deal with at their core.

Where does knowledge come from in prophetic dreams?

Sometimes in a dream, almost any person sees such plausible prophetic things that explaining them from a logical point of view seems impossible at first glance. Well, how can the brain or what is responsible for dreams (if it is not the brain) know something that you yourself do not know?

For the sake of objectivity, let us immediately note the least probable explanations for this phenomenon. Moreover, they almost immediately come to the mind of the average person, because since childhood we have become accustomed to explaining all incomprehensibility from precisely this position. So we can only hope that all this is happening due to certain information fields, bioenergetic structures, telepathic communication of consciousness, or in general, knowledge simply comes from... space. All these things are difficult to analyze, and starting from them, it is impossible, illogical and absolutely useless to talk about anything. Still, we live in a different era, and there is a more plausible explanation for everything.

We can safely say that everything that a person sees, hears, touches and generally somehow perceives throughout his life is stored in his memory, even if it was something extremely insignificant and did not even fall into the field of vision of consciousness. This theory is confirmed by various practices of highly altered states of consciousness, in which such little things can emerge to the level of awareness even after many decades. This means that if there is Something in a person’s head that can analyze incoming information, albeit without the participation of ourselves, this Something has a much greater - tens and perhaps hundreds of times - information resource than we do. What remained unnoticeable to the mind, for this Something will be part of an overall complete picture that can be analyzed and from which it can be predicted.

This Something is our subconscious. And his strength is truly amazing. It is thanks to him that we live. Our mind is essentially too limited and our speed of thinking is incredibly slow. What can our conscious intelligence do in a second? Nothing. What can the subconscious do during the same time? Without any words or reflection, it makes the right decision in a tenth of a second, which can save our lives in a critical situation.

The existence of intrinsic computing power, whatever its name, is beyond doubt. She is the one who can figure out things that seem impossible. Moreover, considering that she has all the information resources for this. As a result, it turns out that even just by the appearance of a stranger, the subconscious can figure out who he is, where he is from, what he thought, what he was going to do, etc. And what it can learn on the basis of long-term observations is generally beyond the scope of our imagination.
There are ways of purposefully contacting this incredible resource, which I have been intensively studying and studying through the phenomenon of “out-of-body” travel - additional evidence of this theory. I would even say that a prophetic dream is not the best and most manageable method of contacting this most powerful resource.

The fact that the subconscious plays a key role in the formation of prophetic dreams and more is also confirmed by many scientists from various fields of science.

The concept of “prophetic dream” is, of course, such an everyday one. One can truly say that dreams, the contents of which come true, as the official position says, are explained by intense subconscious work. It is probably simply impossible to explain the phenomenon of prophetic dreams in any other way. However, in the end, it is necessary to say that still no one knows exactly what this incomprehensible subconscious is.

Why does information come in a dream?

Let's say the brain really can know more than our mind itself. However, why doesn’t he show this while he’s awake or at some other time, but mainly in his sleep or drowsy state? Someone explains this by saying that in a dream, our spirits or some kind of astral, ethereal, mental and similar bodies fly away somewhere, right up to other dimensions and distant planets, and there we gain new knowledge and useful information. Honestly, I don’t even want to discuss such absurdity, because, for example, our soul already disappears somewhere if some small section of the brain of a conscious person is turned off and he immediately turns into an idiot. In general, this is an irrational view, and starting from it, it is impossible to obtain at least some explanations.

It seems to many that the right and left lobes of the human brain function in the same way. However, scientists found out many years ago that the activity of one hemisphere or another leads to completely different consequences. This is very clearly visible if, during craniotomy, which is carried out while maintaining the person’s consciousness, one or the other hemisphere is switched off. Found out that left hemisphere- this is logic, iron and uncompromising, based exclusively on reliable and known facts. It is this hemisphere that characterizes our existence in the world, since its role in wakefulness is much greater than that of the right.

And the right, in turn, is responsible for intuition, art, creation, design - in general, for everything Creative skills, whatever they can be. A person with the right hemisphere turned off is absolutely in no way capable of such things. In everyday life, for most people, the right hemisphere of the brain is not very active. But among artists, inventors, writers, musicians it is easy to find a person for whom it works much better than the left one.

When we sleep, the role of the logical hemisphere, that is, the left, is extremely small, which at least proves that we cannot even be aware of ourselves. Or rather, it is possible, but very difficult. But in sleep, the creative right hemisphere is fully revealed. It is this that helps us build the most bizarre images in the world of our phantom sensations, which sometimes have nothing to do with logic and common sense.

This is where another feature of this creative hemisphere emerges - intuition. It turns out that it is in a dream that our intuition is most acute and obvious. If in the waking state the right hemisphere works more actively in women and creative individuals, who as a result have what is called a sixth sense, then in their sleep it manifests itself even more and, in addition, becomes accessible to every person. It is this theory that logically explains why extraordinary knowledge can appear during sleep.
An interesting version was put forward by two Australian psychologists: Allan Snyder and John Mitchell. They believe that the problem lies in the human rational mind, which may not allow any options for solving problems a priori, as if filtering out the most incredible ones. However, in a dream, such “censorship” can simply be turned off and it is the rejected option that often closes the logical chain. However, in the section on determining a true prophetic dream, I approached this issue just the opposite. The fact is that the explanations of these psychologists relate only to those complex options that are more related to some scientific developments and the like. In everyday human life, things happen that are much more explainable and expected, so the particular paradox of the decision can be almost completely eliminated. In general, they did not put forward anything new, and all this fits into the theory of increased work of the right hemisphere and shutdown of the left - “censorship” in this case.

When is a prophetic dream possible?

Most people think that a prophetic dream is like an element of a random number generator; a number may or may not appear. This is what leads to the most absurd theories. In fact, not a single idea will ever appear in a dream just like that.

Well, no one has ever dreamed of something completely unexpected. If you trace the recorded stories involving prophetic dreams, then these dreams almost always relate to what worries the person most. Moreover, even ordinary dreams begin to adapt to such real experiences. All brilliant insights in a dream, including those of Mendeleev, occurred precisely under the influence of intense thinking.

Understanding this factor makes it easier to purposefully create prophetic dreams, because it turns out that the thought of a specific goal or question is the main factor in its appearance. However, these techniques are based on this, having a high application rate. Even purely folk methods of obtaining prophetic dreams have the same nature, although there deliberate concentration on the question is obviously simply replaced by rituals, spells, etc.
Therefore, it is easy to explain why a person dreams of the death of a sick loved one when he constantly thinks about him and his health. It is not difficult to understand why a person sees in a dream the location of a missing thing that is very necessary. It is obvious and understandable why brilliant discoveries from the field studied by scientists are often made in a dream.

The only option when it may seem that a prophetic dream about real events arose by chance occurs when something connected with you or your loved ones begins to intensively, but at the same time implicitly, develop into something completely unusual and serious. And one fine moment it pops up before your eyes in a prophetic dream. With this maneuver, the subconscious mind warns of possible events, even if you did not think or worry about them at all.

Everyone sees prophetic dreams

During night sleep, a person is not in a static physiological state, but quite the opposite. Normal sleep cyclical, like all living things. Each cycle lasts an hour and a half, almost 80 minutes of which are in the so-called slow-wave sleep (SWS) stage, when our body grows, recovers and gains strength. 10–15 minutes are in the opposite stage - rapid eye movement sleep (REM). At this time, a person dreams, and his body experiences a real vegetative storm: pressure, temperature, heart rate, breathing and much more jump. A distinctive feature is body twitching and rapid eye movements. After such a cycle, a person wakes up every time, although he almost never remembers it, because he quickly falls asleep again. It turns out that over 4–7 such night cycles, the dream period will be at least one hour, during which you can experience a total of fifty dream scenes and much more.

Let’s say some people claim that they have a prophetic dream once a year, but they remember no more than three dreams per night, although they sleep for a long time. It is not difficult to calculate that for them one dream out of a thousand that they remember is prophetic. But in reality, I dream much more. If this same person remembered all the dreams he saw, then he would see prophetic dreams every ten days, because it is during this period that a person experiences a thousand dreams.

All this only says that prophetic dreams occur much more often than we think. But we ourselves are to blame for the fact that, when we wake up, we simply don’t remember them. It would be quite possible to assume that if a person always remembered all his dreams, then he would come across prophetic dreams at least once a month without any training and procedures that are described in this book.

What can you learn from a prophetic dream?

What can a person learn from a prophetic dream? In fact, almost anything you want. Since the nature of a prophetic dream is associated with the activity of a powerful subconscious, there can be no thematic restrictions on information in prophetic dreams. Prophetic dreams help to obtain any information regardless of the time of the events that occurred. A dream will help you learn something from the past, what is happening now or what will happen in the future. Naturally, this applies only to events and their nuances.
Events can also be extremely varied. They can concern the person and those who come into contact with him. They may also concern nature and other very global concepts, including even the political sphere. More specifically, you may dream of a unique weather forecast, a prediction of a specific natural disaster, or even the winner of an election race and a government reshuffle. As for nature, there are much more prophetic dreams about it than about everything else. Another thing is that often the people who talk about them interpret the facts incorrectly and biasedly. In politics, everything is even more complicated, because experienced political strategists know well that any seer can be successfully used in the election race, which is why it is difficult to trust them.

It is no coincidence that the most truthful and accurate evidence of prophetic dreams concerns scientists. It is in this area that the constant attack of the brain in a certain direction is most practiced. From time to time, the brain gives up precisely in a dream, giving its owner exactly what he was looking for. That is, a prophetic dream can bring people answers to the most difficult tasks and questions. Science and famous scientists prove this.

It is especially important to note that a prophetic dream can very accurately characterize the health of a person and his loved ones. An additional factor here is that the subconscious can be aware of those internal ailments that have not even manifested themselves yet, so dreams about health should always be of interest to any person. They seem to warn us, because it is simply impossible to do it any other way.

In a dream, a person can simply discover lost item or even a person. He may simply dream of a place to look. Healers who know how to control them often try to use this feature of prophetic dreams.

A prophetic dream does not necessarily have to be in the nature of a prophecy or an answer to a question. In the end, he may simply recommend something in a given situation, even if you haven’t given it much thought.

In general, a dream can give a person an answer to any question, any riddle that can torment the human mind. History confirms this, we and those around us. However, prophetic dreams are not Magic wand, and their possibilities are not unlimited. If something lies beyond perception, beyond the available data, then the information received will only correspond to the theory of probability and nothing more.

What is sleep

Over the tens of thousands of years that people have inhabited the earth, they and many animal species have become accustomed to a rhythm of daytime activity and nighttime rest. This rhythm, called the circadian rhythm, follows a 24-hour cycle; a person wants to sleep in the evening, regardless of whether the light is on or not. The circadian rhythm is so regular that disruptions can disorient the body.
A person sleeps about a third of his life. And this is not so much - predatory animals and rodents sleep for two-thirds of their lives, and sloths and armadillos sleep all four-fifths.

Why does the body need sleep? The simplest possible answer is to relax the brain.
But, as scientists have found, during sleep the brain not only does not “turn off”, but, on the contrary, sometimes works more actively than when awake. Even able deep sleep the brain can respond to external influences.

Sleep is not “an escape from life” at all, but special shape brain function. An exact answer to the question why
After all, an organism with a developed nervous system needs sleep, science has not yet provided it. Some biologists hypothesize that during sleep the body “rewrites” information from short term memory into the long term. People and animals endure complete sleep deprivation much more severely than starvation, and very soon die.

A person spends a third of his life sleeping: he sleeps 25 out of 75 years. Alternation of sleep and wakefulness - necessary condition vital activity human body. Sleep is a physiological state of rest and rest that occurs at certain intervals, during which the work of consciousness completely or partially stops.

According to the ideas of I.P. Pavlov, sleep in its physiological essence is inhibition, spreading throughout the cortex and subcortical centers of the brain.
During sleep, a person not only has his eyes closed, but also his ears are “turned off.” The muscle that controls the auditory ossicles (hammer, incus, stapes) is in a relaxed state when we sleep, and many are not loud sounds the ear doesn't catch it.

During sleep, metabolism decreases, heart rate drops, breathing becomes shallow and rare. Body temperature decreases. The muscles of a sleeping person relax, the pulse slows down, and breathing becomes even. Scientists call this type of sleep slow sleep. Periods of slow-wave sleep are accompanied by the appearance of large, slow electrical waves in the cerebral cortex. These phenomena are characteristic of a state of deep sleep. During such sleep, the sleeper, without waking up, begins to toss and turn, breathing quickens, and rapid movement of the eyeballs is noticeable under closed eyelids. During sleep, active vital processes occur in all parts, organs and systems of the body.

If you wake up a person during slow-wave sleep, he will assure you that he has not had any dreams. The reason was simple - he had already forgotten them while it lasted slow sleep. Modern data on the study of electrical processes in the brain of a sleeping person have shown that during sleep, brain activity during certain periods can be even higher than during daytime wakefulness.

Other periods are called REM sleep. This name comes from the fact that very small but fast waves appear on the curve of the bioelectrical activity of the brain during these periods. It has been established that during periods of REM sleep, eye movements occur, blood pressure rises, pulse and breathing quicken, and metabolism increases. Sometimes even a person says something in his sleep. All this is very reminiscent of the state of the brain of a waking person. It turns out to be a paradox: a person is sleeping, but his brain seems to be awake! If you wake a person during this paradoxical sleep, he will talk about his dream. There is an assumption that during REM sleep, in a dream, a person seems to “play out” real situations for himself, consolidating them in memory. In the same way, during play, a child stores information about real life in his memory. In children under 10-15 years of age, the proportion of REM sleep is much greater than in adults. Newborns sleep exclusively in REM sleep.

During the experiment, the volunteer, who had previously been deprived of the opportunity to sleep in REM sleep for so long, continuously dreamed for so long. When volunteers were prevented from dreaming without preventing them from sleeping, they experienced hallucinations while awake. At the same time, memory deteriorated.
Normally, a person switches from REM to NREM sleep every 80-90 minutes during the night. During 6-8 hours of sleep, slow-wave sleep lasting 60-90 minutes is replaced several times by fast sleep - for 10-20 minutes. Thus, the change from slow sleep to fast sleep occurs 4-5 times. Due to the fact that the brain biocurrents observed during REM sleep are similar to the biocurrents produced by the brains of people and animals in a state of anxiety, slow-wave sleep is considered deeper.

Most people's circadian rhythm consists of 8 hours of sleep and 16 hours of wakefulness. But such a rhythm is a habit acquired throughout life. The natural rhythm of a person is alternating 3-4 hours of sleep and the same period of wakefulness (as in infants).

The need for sleep depends on the age and individual characteristics of the human body. Children from birth to 2-4 years old sleep about 16 hours a day, schoolchildren 12-16 years old - 7-9 hours, and adults usually sleep about 8 hours a day.

A sleeping animal or person is easy prey for enemies. But if, over the entire long history of civilization, man has secured for himself the right to “sleep peacefully,” in safety and comfort, then this cannot be said about most animals. Perhaps only large predators, who have no one to fear, can sleep peacefully. Herd animals sleep in turns, posting “sentinels.”
Birds, for example, usually sleep standing up with their toes wrapped around branches. Why, when relaxed, do they not fall down? It turns out that a relaxed bird's paw, on the contrary, tightly squeezes its fingers. Sometimes even dead birds are found on the branches, their fingers tightly clenched. The body temperature of birds during sleep sometimes drops by half. To protect themselves from the cold, they fluff up their feathers, tuck their heads under their wings, and
some swifts gather in a large ball.

Seals often sleep underwater. At the same time, every five minutes, without opening their eyes or waking up, they float to the surface to take air into their lungs. Dolphins alternate between the right and left hemispheres of the brain sleeping. Thanks to this, dolphins do not stop moving around the clock and can surface from time to time to breathe.

In their sleep, wasps often cling to the edge of a leaf or blade of grass with their stings and sleep in this “hanging” state. Ants “stretch” after sleep, just like awakened people.

All people benefit from sleep, and it is detrimental to everyone if a person does not get enough sleep on a regular basis. Sleep may be disturbed in the evening if:
1. The stomach is overloaded with food or drink (as it continues to actively digest food consumed before bed);
2. An environment that interferes with sleep (lights on, noise, emotional stress, etc.);
3. Failure to comply with a certain regime;
4. Increased room temperature, etc. ;
5. Drinking alcohol and smoking cause sleep disorders;
6. Taking excessive amounts of sleeping pills.

It is a mistake to hope that the application sleeping pills will cure insomnia. The most the best remedy for insomnia - this is the correct mode of work and rest, walking fresh air and regular physical work.

A person deprived of sleep for a long time begins to see objects as if in a distorting mirror, through a foggy haze. He dreams in reality. Prolonged (10 days) sleep deprivation can lead to death. The world record for the duration of wakefulness, set specifically for the Guinness Book, was 12 days (288 hours). In humans, according to experiments, the longest dream lasted 2 hours 23 minutes. For some people, half the dose of sleep is enough. Such people, for example, were Peter I, Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Edison.

Prolonged sleep in a person, lasting several days or months, is called lethargy. This painful condition occurs in people as a result of various diseases. The longest lethargy was observed in Nadezhda Lebedina. In 1954, after a family quarrel, 34-year-old Nadezhda fell asleep and woke up only in 1974, having slept for two decades.

Fatigue, exhaustion, mental stress suffered serious disease reduce the performance of brain cells during sleep. From lack of sleep, the stomach begins to work poorly. A tired person loses his appetite because his stomach needs rest and does not produce enough gastric juice. This cannot be prevented. During sleep, brain cells restore their functionality; they actively absorb nutrients, accumulate energy. Chronic insomnia is fraught with deterioration of memory and concentration, and decreased performance. Sleep restores mental performance, creating a feeling of freshness, vigor, and a surge of energy.

Dreams are complex psychic phenomena, which are based on previously experienced impressions, which now enter into various, sometimes absurd or fantastic connections. This is explained by the peculiarities of brain activity during sleep, which differs sharply from the work of the brain during wakefulness.

Dreams are normal brain function during REM sleep. If you wake up a person towards the end of this period, he will definitely tell you what he just saw in his dream. Aristotle also noted that if a source of heat is brought to the hand of a sleeping person, the person will dream of fire. Sometimes in a dream people find answers to questions that tormented them in reality. Dmitry Mendeleev, for example, found the “key” to the periodic table of elements in a dream; The chemist Friedrich Kekule guessed about the cyclic structure of the benzene molecule when he dreamed of a snake biting its own tail.

We see in our dreams incredible combinations of events that we have encountered in our lives. Therefore, people who are blind from birth do not have visual images in their sleep, that is, they do not have ordinary dreams. As scientists have calculated, dreams “take away” almost five years of our lives.

Almost all dreams occur during the superficial phase of sleep. And only short-term, fragmentary dreams arise during deeper “slow” sleep. Dream-filled REM sleep occurs between longer periods of slow-wave sleep. During slow-wave sleep, the mind is rested and almost inactive. In contrast, during REM sleep the mental activity of the brain is very high. Animals, like humans, also dream. In sleeping dogs, for example, you can often notice restless paw twitching and barking.

For a long time it seemed that, despite various guesses, people would never be able to find out exactly what animals dream about. The French biologist Michel Jouvet was the first to “see” the dreams of animals in 1979. In dreams, we often see our own movement, running, or any actions, but in reality at this time we are almost motionless. The commands that the brain gives to the muscles are blocked by a special part of it. Jouvet managed to “turn off” this blocking in the cats with whom he conducted experiments. To put it another way, he made cats “sleepwalkers.” During slow-wave sleep, the animals remained motionless. But now the “fast” phase has begun. The cat stood up, walked in circles, watching the non-existent victim, sneaked up, rushed at it, biting and grabbing with its claws. However, she did not react to real mice. The cat could “get into a fight” with some “strong enemy” and lap up something from an imaginary saucer.

Both people and animals can have nightmares. As it turns out, it's mostly children who have nightmares. And this is explained by the fact that children at their age experience emotional turmoil while learning about the world.

It is believed that bad dreams can be caused for the following reasons:
1. A person’s anxiety due to troubles at work, at home, or frustration due to a tense situation in the family;
2. Strong emotional stress;
Eating a lot of food before bed, as we know, prevents you from falling asleep soundly. And when sleep is not very deep, we perceive dreams more clearly and remember dreams better, including nightmares;
Heart diseases. They may be accompanied strong feeling fear of death (if you have heart disease, you may dream of falling into an abyss or cliff). If a person often has nightmares, it means that something is constantly disturbing his soul, and it is best to turn to a good psychiatrist.

For many centuries, many scientists have struggled with the riddle of “where prophetic dreams come from.” For example, American Indians believe that prophetic dreams occur when a person's soul sleeps in another world. This same point of view is shared by some paranormal researchers.

According to the most common hypothesis, prophetic dreams arise as a result of unconscious brain activity during sleep. Since the brain consists of two hemispheres, the right one “manages” imaginative thinking and emotions, the left one carries out logical operations. During sleep, the operations carried out by the left hemisphere cease. This is how the most fantastic options for the development of various situations are born using images already in memory or constructed from fragments of images. Therefore, prophetic dreams are just whims of fantasy, and not predictions that come true.

Proponents of this hypothesis do not take into account one thing important moment. Mathematical probability of a random coincidence of fictitious pictures of the virtual world with what is happening in reality existing world, is too insignificant to explain to them the nature of prophetic dreams. Academician Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky also expressed the idea that our planet has a bioenergetic shell, which he called the “noosphere”. Today, more and more scientists recognize the validity of the hypothesis about the existence of a global electrical information field, and in it, like a mirror, everything that happens on earth is reflected. This "everything" means that it contains information not only about past and current events, but also about what will happen someday. From it, a lot of information falls on our consciousness. However, if all of it entered the consciousness, it simply would not be able to withstand such an amount.

To understand the protection mechanism, you will have to touch on things that are quite difficult to understand. The fact is that a person communicates with the world around him using his senses. Moreover, they enter through the eyes, ears, skin, etc. signals necessarily pass to the brain. But there is another type of perception of the external world - at the level of brain neuron cells. It has recently been established that all of them, in one way or another, react to external electromagnetic influences, including energy impulses from the information field. But, fortunately, this is not reflected in our consciousness in any way. Why does the brain discard this information, processing only that which is supplied to it by the senses? After all, whether the brain wants it or not, ultra-weak impulses from the information field still continuously enter it. And Vernadsky found a way out: in order not to “hear” them, he used his own “silencer”. And as it turns out, such a powerful “silencer” is the neurons that produce a special substance, serotonin.

Since serotonin is produced mainly by neurons that transmit information from the eyes to the corresponding visual centers, at night the load on them is practically zero. Consequently, the serotonin “noise” subsides. As a result, suitable conditions arise for the “messages” continuously arriving from the information field to be, firstly, heard in the analytical center of our brain, and secondly, processed using the released energy resources. This is how prophetic dreams arise. It is possible that all people see them all the time. Indeed, during the night, the total duration of several phases of REM sleep, when dreams arise in our consciousness, is about two hours. But according to recent studies, people forget 90 percent of them.

Let's hope that further research into mysterious prophetic dreams will reveal their secret and, perhaps, help people see them more often.

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Dream Interpretation

Dream interpreter, dream objects and their portents:

Humanity has always been interested in the nature of sleep. Why does a person need sleep, why can’t he do without it? What are dreams and what do they mean? Scientists of ancient times asked these questions, and modern luminaries of science are also busy looking for answers to them. So, what is sleep from a scientific point of view, what are dreams and what is their meaning?

What is sleep and is it necessary?

Scientists of antiquity did not know the causes of sleep and often put forward erroneous, literally fantastic theories about what sleep and dreams are. More than a century ago, for example, some scientists considered sleep to be a poisoning of the body; allegedly, poisons accumulate in the human body during wakefulness, causing poisoning of the brain, as a result of which sleep occurs, and dreams are just hallucinations of a poisoned brain. Another version said that the onset of sleep is explained by a decrease in blood circulation in the brain.

For two thousand years, people were satisfied with the wisdom of Aristotle, who argued that sleep is nothing more than halfway to death. The situation changed dramatically when the human brain began to be considered the seat of the mind and soul. Thanks to Darwin's theory and Freud's work, the veil of divinity was torn from man, and a large-scale study of the functioning of the mechanism (the word, how inanimate!) of the human body and brain began. It was a time of incredible faith in science. In the minds of scientists, the body was seen as a complex automaton; all that remained was to understand exactly what gears and cogs made up this automaton - and the secret of life and mind would be revealed. And nothing wonderful!

But the subsequent development of science and technology: X-rays, EEG, MRI and other devices that help “look” into the brain have revealed a lot of new things to humanity. And most importantly, they created more questions than they found answers: why is sleep needed, what is sleep and dreams in reality?

For a long time it was believed that sleep is just a rest for the overloaded brain machine, which protects against premature wear and tear. Also, during sleep, overworked muscles and bones get rest. However, this simple theory did not prove to be fully consistent. Back in the 20th century, in its middle, it was found that in a sleeping person, brain metabolism is only 10-15% lower than during a shallow sleep. And muscles that are tired during the day can have a great rest just by being at rest.

It turns out that the human body has absolutely no need to spend a third of its life hungry and defenseless. You don't need sleep to relax! For only 10% sleep efficiency, natural selection would not risk an entire individual, or what, the entire human species. After all, during sleep we are not able to react to danger adequately, to quickly orient ourselves, while the insidious enemy always carries out his dirty deeds under the cover of darkness... In this case, why did natural selection not take care of the problem of the defenselessness of those sleeping, why is it still affecting the body to this day? the burden of compulsory rest hangs, why do you need sleep, what is sleep?

It turns out that sleep is not just rest, it is a special state of the brain, reflected in specific behavior.

What is sleep from a scientific point of view? What are sleep phases and what happens to the body?

A person devotes almost a third of his entire life to sleep. Sleep is a cyclical phenomenon, usually 7-8 hours a day, during which 4-5 cycles replace each other. Each cycle includes two phases of sleep: the phase of slow and rapid sleep.

The moment a person falls asleep, slow-wave sleep begins, which includes 4 stages. Stage one represents drowsiness: a person’s consciousness begins to “float”, various uncontrollable images appear. This is a shallow sleep, lasting up to 5 minutes, of course, if the unfortunate person does not suffer from insomnia.

During the second stage, a person is completely immersed in the arms of Morpheus. If nothing disturbs the dozing person, then the doze will go into the second phase of sleep, lasting about 20 minutes.

The third stage of slow-wave sleep is characterized by immersion in deep sleep.

The time of the deepest and good sleep, is the fourth stage, during this period it is quite difficult to wake a person. During the stages of slow-wave sleep, the human body's temperature drops, metabolism decreases, heart rate and breathing slow down, muscles relax, eyeballs under closed eyelids make smooth, slow movements. At this time, the production of growth hormone increases and body tissues are regenerated. And suddenly, after 20-30 minutes of deep sleep, the brain again returns to the second phase of shallow sleep. It’s as if the brain is trying to wake up, and therefore begins to reverse. But instead of waking up, he moves not to the first, but to the fifth phase of sleep - rapid sleep, called REM sleep.

The slow-wave sleep phase is replaced by the fast sleep phase after about 1.5 hours. During this period, the work of all its internal organs in the human body is activated, but at the same time muscle tone drops significantly and the body becomes completely immobilized. During REM sleep, processes completely opposite to slow sleep occur in the body: the temperature rises, the heart rate and breathing increase, and the eyeballs begin to move sharply and quickly. When a sleeping person is completely immobilized, his brain is extremely active. It is now that a person sees most of his dreams. REM sleep lasts about 10-20 minutes. Then everything repeats again. After the end of the REM phase, the second, third, and then the fourth phases of sleep follow again in strict order. The duration of REM sleep in the last cycles, towards the end of the night, increases, and slow sleep decreases.

So why do you need sleep, and what are dreams?

Sleep for a person is, to some extent, more important than food. A person can live about 2 months without food, but very little without sleep. Scientists did not conduct experiments that would find out the viability of a person without sleep. But to understand this, it is enough to recall the executions carried out in ancient China, sleep deprivation being the most severe of them. People who were forcibly deprived of sleep did not survive longer than 10 days.

One of the experiments conducted by modern scientists showed that already on the fifth day a person’s hearing and vision deteriorate, coordination of movements is impaired, hallucinations may begin, attention is scattered, the individual becomes no longer capable of purposeful activity. The majority of people during this time lost weight, despite the abundance of food. On the 8th day, the experiment was stopped due to the requirements of the “experimental subjects” - people could no longer do it.

Experiments were conducted in which a person was deprived of sleep to find out the meaning of each sleep phase. At a certain stage, the person was woken up, then he fell asleep again. The results were recorded using special instruments. As experiments have shown, if a person is deprived of REM sleep, he becomes aggressive, absent-minded, memory decreases, fears and hallucinations arise. Thus, we came to the conclusion that REM sleep is necessary to restore the functions of the body’s nervous system, and it is its restoration that occurs during REM sleep.

While slow-wave sleep is in progress, the human brain processes all the information received during the day. This is precisely what explains the intense work of the brain; it is necessary for organizing and classifying information received by the brain during wakefulness. In this case, new information is compared with the past, long stored in memory, finding its own place in the system of ideas that a person already has about the world around him. It requires comprehension, processing or refinement of existing ideas. Of course, this requires active creative brain activity, which is believed to occur during deep sleep. In a processed, ordered form, with a complex of organic relationships with the experience of the past, new information is recorded and further stored in the long-term memory of the brain. That is why artificially depriving a person of this phase of sleep leads to various memory disorders and can cause mental illness.

What are dreams and why do we have dreams?

We can say that it is in a dream that the brain decides what information needs to be retained (that is, remembered) and what can be “thrown away”, looks for connections between different information, weighing the value of the experience gained. The brain moves a mass of “cards” with data through a huge “card index”, establishing a relationship between them, and assigning each one to its own “catalog”.

It is this creative, incredible work of the brain that explains our dreams. Strange, bizarre visions are a direct reflection of the process of searching for relationships, “cross-references” between various information stored in memory. When the relationship between the new “data card” and the open “catalog” is absent, the dream becomes strange, incomprehensible, bizarre. When a relationship is found, memory is updated, enriched with new facts.

In addition, the nerve endings that are involved in the process of memorization, during fast, short nap“train”, especially when the brain manages to calculate and remember a new structure, the internal logic of the material proposed for study.

This could be considered a complete answer to the question “what are dreams and sleep”, if not for one small “but” - the so-called prophetic dreams. Many scientists, insisting that a dream is just a “processing” of what was seen and heard, ignore the existence of dreams, the events in which are in no way consistent with what a person saw or heard in life. And even an explanation that the person simply “forgot about it” looks weak.

But what about, for example, the incredible stories of discovering treasures in places where a person had never been before, or even heard of them, but clearly saw both the place and the process in a dream. Or worse, - horrible dream, told by a husband to his wife, waking up in the middle of the night: he saw how he would go take out the garbage before work and be killed by a homeless man - in the morning this is what happened, the man was killed near a garbage container, and the killer was found according to the description that the deceased had told his wife the night before. And there are a lot of such stories - each of us has had a prophetic dream at least once. So, what does sleep mean in this case, what are dreams, and why do dreams occur?

There is a theory that does not reject the official version of what dreams are and why dreams are dreamed, but tries to complement it and fully reveal what a dream means. While studying the electrical activity of the human brain, scientists discovered weak vibrations - alpha waves. Having measured them, they discovered the alpha rhythm of the brain and found out that alpha waves are characteristic only of humans, and no one else.

Soon they discovered the existence of weak oscillations of magnetic fields around the human head, coinciding in frequency with the alpha rhythm. But the most surprising thing is that the characteristics of these waves and electromagnetic vibrations incredibly close to terrestrial characteristics, of the same order, natural resonances, the so-called “Earth-ionosphere” system. Answering the question of what dreams are, what sleep means, we can assume that the sensitivity of the brain to earthly electrical influences is capable of providing communication with a certain principle that permeates everything around us. That the brain is also a receiver, providing an invisible and unconscious connection with the planet, with the cosmos...

In many laboratories on Earth, scientists are trying to find a solution to the most ancient riddle of the illusory world, to answer what happens to us in our sleep, what does sleep mean, what are dreams? Today, the most powerful, previously unimaginable research tools are being used - positron emission tomography, neurochemistry various groups cells... The future will show how effective this arsenal will be.

facts about dreams

• The amount of sleep required for good rest is about 7-8 hours a day, while in childhood about 10 hours of sleep are required, in old age - about 6. There are known cases in history when people spent significantly less time sleeping. For example, as witnesses said, Napoleon slept no longer than 4 hours a day, Peter I, Goethe, Schiller, Bekhterev - 5 hours, and Edison - generally 2-3 hours a day. Scientists believe that a person can sleep without realizing it and without remembering it.
• It is well known that the answer to some very important question for a person, which has been tormenting him all day or several, can come in a dream.
• Mendeleev dreamed of a table of chemical elements arranged in order of increasing atomic weight.
• The chemist August Kekule saw the formula for benzene in a dream.
• The violinist and composer Tartini composed the final part of the sonata “Devil's Trills” in a dream, the best of his works.
• La Fontaine composed the fable “Two Doves” in a dream.
• In a dream, Pushkin saw two lines from the poem “Licinia” that he then wrote.
• Derzhavin dreamed about the last stanza of the ode “God”.
• Beethoven composed the piece in a dream.
• Voltaire immediately dreamed of an entire poem, which became the first version of the Henriad.
• Not all people see vivid, “colorful” dreams. About 12% of sighted people are able to see only black and white dreams.
• Dreams can be not only colored, but also with a smell.
• People who are blind from birth do not see pictures in their dreams, but in their dreams there are smells, sounds, and sensations.
• The most intense and realistic dreams are seen by people who quit smoking.
• People tend to forget their dreams very quickly. Literally 5-10 minutes after waking up, we don’t remember even the fourth part we saw in the dream.
• Seeing in dreams many seemingly completely unfamiliar people, in fact, according to science, we saw them all in real life, but did not remember their faces, while the brain imprinted them.
• 40 minutes, 21 hours and 18 days - this is exactly the record of the long absence sleep.

Every person living on earth, perhaps even animals, has wondered what sleep is and how it arises in the head. It’s paradoxical, but no matter how much time scientists spend studying this phenomenon, no one has been able to fully understand this complex gift of nature. How to interpret own dream, is determined not by the book, but by the person himself.

Psychics and astrologers give it great importance, doctors perceive it as a normal life process, psychologists are trying to use it to understand human personality, the others are just watching him - and it’s all a dream. It has a special meaning in every person’s life and is perceived differently. A unique mystery of the brain can immerse a person in unprecedented journeys and force him to perceive events as reality. It is very important to understand the difference between sleep and dreams.

Sleep reflects a physiological process, a kind of “inhibition” of the body’s activity. Dreams speak of normal brain activity and represent connected, but most often scattered, fragments of events that pass through the head like a movie.

The manifestation of a dream can be caused by several sources:

• objective, external irritation of the senses (the influence of the environment, relationships in the team and family);
• subjective, internal irritation of the senses (striving for self-control, creative impulses);
• internal, physical irritation (diseases, ailments, chronic diseases can cause pathological drowsiness, lethargic encephalitis);
• psychological sources of irritation (humiliation, insults, love, care).

To fully understand the nature of sleep, it is necessary to consider all possible positions of interpretation of this phenomenon.

Sleep from a scientific point of view

Scientists and doctors talk about the need for sleep as a natural phenomenon. Everything is programmed by nature: a person is tired, therefore, he needs rest, which will provide good sleep. The earth has small and great rhythms - the key to unraveling all forms of life. The day is separated by day and night, solar activity fades and revives, centuries-long calm is replaced by earthquakes, the heart beats rhythmically, just as breathing has its own rhythm, sleep is replaced by wakefulness - all these are rhythms that last a century, a year, a month, a week, seconds. And only man has learned to competently divide the cycle into active hours and time for rest, intelligently managing his own time.

Sleep is a deep shutdown of the body from external environment, preventing the depletion of nerve cells in the brain and internal organs.

In the Middle Ages, scientists believed that sleep was caused by stagnation of blood in the head due to the horizontal position of the sleeper. Dreams force a person to subjectively perceive the images that appear in the consciousness of the sleeper. Sometimes phenomena can be so vivid and sensual that they seem absolutely real. Currently, dreams are studied by the science of oneirology, which claims that dreams can be conscious (controlled by a person) and unconscious.

Sleep from a psychological point of view

Psychologists believe that in a dream a person comes into contact with his Shadow, namely a part of the Personality that is rejected by consciousness. Usually in a dream there are positive and negative images that are formed in early childhood and are a modulation of the images of the father, mother and loved ones, depending on the environment. Dreams are supported by the resources of consciousness collected throughout life. Memorization and correct interpretation dreams will help you cope with internal problems and experiences, and correct character flaws.

Sleep is an immersion into the inner reality of the human “I”, an opportunity to know and analyze one’s personality through the interpretation of dreams.

Dream from an esoteric point of view

Since ancient times, sleep has been perceived as a special gift, an attempt by Higher powers to establish contact with the human mind. People looked for clues, predictions, and advice in their dreams. If physical fatigue is only the cause of sleep, then the manifestation of dreams is its consequences.

At the moment of wakefulness, the astral, mental and physical bodies function harmoniously. As soon as the moment of disconnection from the outside world comes, the astral and mental bodies leave the physical and implement all their plans. This is one of the reasons why a person sees in a dream the fulfillment of even the most intimate desires, which were not destined to come true in real life.

Sleep is the result of the separation of the dense (physical) and subtle (astral, mental) bodies in order to relax and streamline the senses while traveling in the spiritual world.

Initially, the population can be divided into 2 categories: people who dream (predominant) and individuals who enter a state of deep sleep without the consequences of dreaming.

Physiological need the body's ability to rest does not cause enthusiastic interest and doubt, but what to do with the inexplicable accompaniment of this process in the form of dreams. From the moment of the birth of life on Earth to this day, one thought has not left man: Why do I have dreams? The fact is that during the period of wakefulness, the brain “collects” sensations, “processes” them and issues its own interpretations of what is happening.

To have a dream means to have an idea of ​​the state of consciousness. Dreams are dreamed so that the “secret” information of the subcortex becomes clear to the cerebral cortex.

Scientists regard the phenomena at the time of rest as an acceptable unloading of the emotional state. It is needed to restore energy and stabilize emotional state. If a person does not take a break from his emotions, a moment of mental breakdown may occur. Only in the kingdom of Morpheus can you become a spectator of a film with your own participation.

The nature of sleep and dreams

The ideal image of the nature of sleep is a sleeping Buddha. The famous painting reveals the secrets of an unknown phenomenon in the smallest detail. In ancient treatises, scientists identified 3 phases of the body’s state: the waking phase, the sleep phase and the dreaming phase. Aristotle, as a representative of the development of European science, argued that nature of sleep is this: whoever dreams can exist. A person who can get to the depths of this extraordinary phenomenon will learn the secrets of his brain.

The scientist Pavlov discovered a “wakefulness center” in the cerebral cortex and assumed that there must also be a “sleep center.” The situation was different: in the cerebral cortex there were only inhibitory mechanisms that weakened the functioning of neurons and caused a lethargic state, gradually transferring the body into a state of deep sleep.

The appearance of dreams paradoxical dream, was a true discovery. This is a special “third state of the body”, when a person is physically resting, but at the subconscious level he is actively awake, also experiencing feelings and emotions directly related to his real life activity.

In order to understand the reason for the phenomenon of a particular dream, it is important to study the main types of dreams:

• wish dreams come if you really want something. The consequence may be the use of magic, spells, and the creation of an appropriate mood. Such phenomena can come true both at the subconscious level and narrate about imminent execution in real life;
• Prediction dreams appear rarely and to selected people. The prediction may concern an individual or society as a whole. The correct interpretation will help prevent unwanted events and use the prediction for good purposes;
• erotic dreams are common to both males and females in cases of inadequate satisfaction of sexual desires. For spouses, this is a reason to think about improving intimate relationships;
• Prophetic dreams tend to come true and carry hidden or direct meaning. In this case, a solution to problems, a warning, good or bad news comes to the sleeper;
• nightmares are the most unpleasant aspect of the manifestation of human fears. The consequences can be films, programs, books about violence - an artificial stimulant, or one's own human fears - a natural stimulant.

Whatever the dream, it gives an impetus to analyze actions and understand what is going wrong in life at the moment.

The works of scientists and philosophers about dreams are a basis designed to serve as the basis for independent study of the processes occurring in the head at the moment of deep rest. Dreams are so far the only state of the human body for which there are no clear explanations, proper structure, definition, and one can never predict what it will be like tomorrow.

When studying sleep, you need to start with yourself. Keeping records is the first step to success in identifying a person.

To study your own state of the body during sleep, it is recommended to keep a diary and regularly write down what you remember. As a result, after a week or month it will become clear that all events are directly or indirectly interconnected. It is important to understand why do I have dreams when they are calm, when they are active and, most importantly, how they influence the course of life events. It wouldn't be surprising if at the same time of recording common man will become an extraordinary find and discovery in science.

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