Plunging every night into the “kingdom of Morpheus,” we see dreams. Some people, waking up in the morning, do not remember the dream, while others perceive the plot very emotionally and give it a certain meaning.

Why do we have dreams? Until now, the mechanisms and causes of this human condition remain at the level of scientific hypotheses.

From a medical point of view, sleep is a natural physiological process, and night visions are the result active work brain

• Ancient peoples It was believed that during a night's rest the soul of the sleeping person leaves the body and travels around the world.
• Esoterics They attribute mystical properties to dreams - a warning of danger or a prediction of the future.
• Psychologists They believe that this is how the subconscious “speaks” to us.

How are dreams different from dreams?

Sleep is a physiological state found in both humans and animals. This is a state of relaxation and reduced reaction of the body to external influences.

A dream is a set of visual images that a sleeping person dreams of and causes accompanying experiences.

The stage of sleep during which dreaming occurs is called REM sleep. At the same time, a person does not feel the border between the imaginary world and reality.

Often both words are used interchangeably, but sleep should be considered a natural physiological process. “Telling your dream” means telling about the dream (images, actions, experiences that arose during sleep).

“A dream, first of all, reveals an indisputable connection between all parts of hidden thoughts by connecting all this material into one situation...”

Sigmund Freud

What do dreams mean?

During the period of nighttime relaxation, our brain produces all kinds of pictures. In most cases, they are a consequence of emotions experienced the day before.

• We watched it in the evening scary film? It is likely that terrible images will haunt you at night.
• After a quarrel with a loved one, you may dream of fighting a monster.

Such dreams mean practically nothing, so you should not attach much importance to them.

It is more important to pay attention to the actions performed in a dream and the feelings experienced. If they are not related to recent life events, they can carry a certain semantic load.

Psychologists' opinions on dreams

Fundamental theories about dreams began to appear only at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. Scientific researchers have tried to explain the phenomenon of dreams in different ways.

The father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, believed that dreams are manifestations of the subconscious and unconscious in our psyche.

While falling asleep, a person does not stop thinking, that is, his brain continues to work, but only in a different mode. Information located in the subconscious and unconscious areas flows into consciousness. It is this amount of information that is the basis for the occurrence of dreams.

“It is obvious that a dream is the life of consciousness during sleep”

Sigmund Freud

In most cases, according to Freudians, dreams are a way of realizing our repressed desires and hidden aspirations. This is a specific mechanism that allows you to “unload” the psyche through the fulfillment of unrealized desires in a dream.

Oneirology is a science whose subject of study is sleep and various aspects of dreams.

However, there is the exact opposite opinion of researchers explaining the mechanism of dreams.

Psychiatrist Alan Hobson claims that sleep carries absolutely no meaning. According to his theory, called the action-synthetic model, the brain interprets random electrical impulses during sleep, resulting in vivid and memorable visions.

Opinions of other scientists and psychologists studying the phenomenon:

• Sleep as “sending short-term memories for long-term storage” (Zhang Jie, author of the “persistent activation theory”).
• Dreams as a “way of getting rid of unnecessary rubbish” (“reversal learning theory”, Francis Crick and Graham Mitchison).
• The biological function of sleep is as a development and “rehearsal” of the body’s natural reactions (Antti Revonusuo, author of the “theory of the protective instinct”).
• Sleep as a solution to accumulated problems (Mark Blechner, author of the “theory of natural selection of thoughts”).
• Dreaming as “a way of smoothing out negative experiences through symbolic associations” (Richard Coates), etc.

Ernest Hartman, one of the founders Modern Theory Dreaming, considers dreams to be an evolutionary mechanism by which the brain “mitigates” the consequences of psychological trauma. This happens through associative images and symbols that arise during sleep.

Color and black and white dreams

The overwhelming majority of people see dreams in color, and only 12% of the inhabitants of our planet are able to perceive images in dreams in black and white.

• Bright, colorful, colorful dreams are most often seen by creative people.

As a result of research, it was found that the color saturation of dreams is influenced by a person’s level of intelligence. In addition, colorful dreams are typical of impressionable people who perceive the world emotionally and react excitedly to various events in their lives.

• People with a more rational mindset dream of black and white.

Dreams without color help you better know your “I” and comprehend what is happening. Therefore, they are characteristic of pragmatists who, even in their sleep, try to “digest” information and carefully think about something.

According to parapsychologists, colored dreams foreshadow future events, while black and white dreams are a reflection of the past. Some scientists see a relationship between a person's mood and dreams.

Sadness, fatigue and melancholy “discolor” sleep, and a good mood is the key to a bright and colorful dream.

There is also an opinion that there are no black and white dreams. People focus only on the content of the dream, and not on the colors, and therefore claim that they see black and white dreams.

Bad dreams

A bad dream is a dream with negative images and experiences that cause a person to experience anxiety and discomfort. Such dreams are remembered in detail and do not leave your head.

According to scientists, bad dreams reflect an influx of negative information that the brain does not have time to cope with while awake. Therefore, he continues to “digest” this information at night.

Bad dreams about natural disasters, catastrophes, wars, etc. are a signal nervous system about human powerlessness, the inability to cope with some task.

Doctors have identified a direct connection between dreams and health problems.

• For example, people with heart disease often dream of chases.
• Malfunctions in the functioning of the respiratory system are reflected in dreams where a person is “strangled” or drowns in water.
• Wandering in a dream in labyrinths and forest thickets can signal the presence of depression or overwork.

Nightmares

In a nightmare, a person feels the approach of death. This is its main difference from a “bad” dream.

“Nightmares exist outside the boundaries of logic, there is little fun in them, they cannot be explained; they contradict the poetry of fear" (Stephen King)

If a person is in a difficult situation, worries for a long time about some unresolved problem, then negative energy finds a way out through dark dreams. Stressful events manifest themselves in dreams so that a person can finally “process” them.

Frequent nightmare plots:

• collisions with monsters, monsters, evil spirits, etc.;
• bites from poisonous spiders or snakes;
• pursuit and pursuit;
• natural disasters and car accidents;
• military actions (attacks, shootings, capture);
• receiving injuries and injuries;
• death of a loved one.

Lucid dreaming

Almost every one of us has the experience of experiencing a lucid dream with a clear understanding that everything that is happening around is a dream and an illusion. This condition occurs during the REM sleep stage, when muscle tone is very low.

Experts have found that lucid dreaming is accompanied by synchronization of activity various areas brain and the appearance of high-frequency rhythms (about 40 Hz) in the temporal and frontal areas. Such gamma rhythms are associated with a state of active wakefulness. This explains the “on” consciousness of a person during sleep.

The term " lucid dreaming" was first used by the Dutch psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden in late XIX century.

The ability to be aware of oneself in a dream and to independently simulate a dream is most often innate. However, gamers and people with high levels of self-control are also susceptible to such experiences.

Today there are special techniques that help control dreams. Such abilities can be fully developed only by individuals with the highest level of intelligence in the cognitive sphere (most often yoga).

Prophetic dreams

People try to predict the future based on dreams. Esotericists provide convincing evidence of the existence of prophetic dreams. According to many researchers, such dreams are nothing more than the voice of intuition or “smoothing out” negative emotions through symbolic associations.

Memory improves when we become more deeply interested in the inner world. Accordingly, we remember dreams better.

Psychologists have found that women, due to their emotionality and impressionability, treat dreams more carefully than men.

Reasons for lack of dreams and how to get them back

It may seem strange, but some people don't dream at all. Why is this happening? British scientists concluded that only smart people, with a high IQ level.

If a person does not strive to understand the world and himself, then he dreams extremely rarely, since his brain is “sleeping.”

Other reasons for lack of dreams include brain overload during the daytime. Consciousness does not generate dreams so that the mind can recover from the abundance of impressions. That's why we don't dream after long trips or active holidays.

Nervous and mental disorders, alcohol intoxication, moral or physical fatigue are the factors that “destroy” sleep.

How to regain the ability to see and remember dreams?

• Relax before going to bed.
• Meditate at night.
• Do not abuse alcohol.
• Alternate mental and physical work.
• Stick to your daily routine.

Conclusion

Conclusion

The phenomenon of dreams has not been fully studied. Only one thing is clear: our thoughts and perception of the world, emotions and impressions are reflected in the quality of sleep and control our subconscious. This is how vivid and emotional dreams are born with various plots that make our life more mysterious and interesting.

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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 in a state of 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 is a necessary condition for the functioning of the 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 auditory ossicles(hammer, incus, stirrup), when we sleep, is in a relaxed state, and the ear does not catch many not so loud sounds.

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 is noticeable under closed eyelids. eyeballs. 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 slow sleep lasted. 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 on the curve bioelectrical activity During these periods, very small but fast waves appear in the brain. It has been established that during periods of REM sleep, eye movements occur and the blood pressure, pulse and breathing quicken, 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 in his memory information about real life. 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 sleep alternately on the right and then on the right. left hemisphere brain 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. Non-compliance 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 use of sleeping pills will cure insomnia. The most the best remedy for insomnia - this is the correct mode of work and rest, walks in the 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 features brain activity during sleep, which differs sharply from the work of the brain during wakefulness.

Dreams are normal operation brain 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 largely inactive. In contrast, during REM sleep mental activity 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 may 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, there appear suitable conditions so that the “messages” continuously arriving from the information field are, 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:

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 one at a time 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 bounds 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 lobe human brains function the same. 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. We found out that the left hemisphere is logic, iron-clad 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, most people right hemisphere 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 is 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.