First, protect sleep.
Research shows that dreaming more is good for prolonging life. They found that there are two opposite sleep-promoting peptides in the human brain, one is to promote dreamless sleep, and the other is to promote dreamless sleep. Researchers have successfully isolated peptides that promote dreaming sleep and applied them to animals to prolong their dreaming time. Results Most of the tested animals have a long life span, which shows that dreams can protect sleep, and only by improving the quality of sleep can they ensure their health and longevity.
Dreams are a kind of psychological activity when people sleep. Researchers have done such an experiment in the sleep lab. When the subjects can continue to sleep with loud noise, almost all the noise content is incorporated into their own dream plot. Noise becomes a part of the dreamer's plot, so that the dreamer can sleep peacefully.
The dreamer constantly adjusts himself in the dream, making the external stimulus a specific plot in the dream. In the dream, the dreamer responds to the stimulus, so people can continue to sleep. Freud believed that dreams can not only relieve our spirits, but also promote our sleep.
Freud assumed that people are often stimulated during sleep, such as wanting to wear clothes when they are cold and looking for food when they are hungry. If these stimuli are realized in dreams, then people's sleep will continue. Therefore, our dream is to use dreams to resolve external stimuli and ensure that our sleep is not disturbed.
Freud believed that dreams are the "keepers" and "guardians" of sleep, which can eliminate the stimulating factors in sleep and ensure the continuation of sleep. In real life, such examples are not uncommon. Dream a sweet dream, the quality of sleep is not only high, but also the spirit will be very pleasant, which is also the actual feeling of many people.
Second, balance psychology.
Freud believed that the role of dreams in regulating psychological balance lies in satisfying conscious or subconscious wishes, which can alleviate the psychological pressure caused by unfulfilled wishes to some extent.
Jung believes that the psychological significance of dreams lies in compensation. Through dreams, the subconscious can supplement the deficiencies and defects of conscious activities, make mental activities more complete and rich, and make the whole psychological function tend to be stable. People can get necessary benefits from dreams, which is conducive to mental health and psychological harmony. With these research results, we can say that dreams play an important role in regulating psychological balance and maintaining physical and mental health.
In the study of dreams, some experiments have also confirmed the role of dreams in regulating psychological balance. For example, someone used a prescribed picture as the beginning of the story, and asked the subjects to use their imagination to fabricate the ending of the story. The experimental results show that if the subjects make up stories when they are awake, most stories will have happy endings, but after dreaming and sleeping, most people will make up stories with unsatisfactory endings. This shows that people will look at the problem from a bad angle after falling asleep in their dreams, so that their psychology can adapt to the more complicated living environment.
The psychological adjustment of dreams has two aspects: macro and micro. Macroscopically, dreams mainly maintain the relaxation rhythm of the mental system itself. At the micro level, dreams mainly promote the balance of various psychological factors in the psychological system.
In other words, dreams regulate psychology in two ways. On the one hand, it is the nervous psychological activity during awakening. After relaxing in a dream, it can be restored in a dream, which ensures the resumption of nervous psychological activities the next day. If this intense psychological activity is not repaired by dreams, it will not take long to lead to psychological collapse. On the other hand, some desires during awakening cannot be realized, so people will be very distressed and worried. Dreams can sometimes satisfy these desires in dreams and promote psychological balance to some extent.
The balanced psychological function of dreams plays a very important role in people's physical and mental health, because people's health not only means that the body has no congenital defects and patients, but also means a healthy psychology and sufficient social adaptability. So the psychological adjustment of dreams is very important.
Third, promote invention.
At all times, many inventions and literary creations are inspired by dreams or obtained directly in dreams. Researchers believe that dreaming is to combine newly acquired intellectual information with genetic instinct and retain rich experience in memory. Many examples show that dreams have helped many scientists solve outstanding problems. In fact, this is the function of the right brain. Many studies show that the right brain is the brain of ancestors, and the fine traditions and wisdom of ancestors will be passed down through the right brain. Moreover, the right brain is an unconscious brain, an energy-saving brain and an action brain. What's even more amazing is that the right brain is the soul of creation, because the ancestral factor of the right brain, the information of the left brain is 654.38+ ten thousand times and the fast and efficient information processing method make it have outstanding creative nature.
Edison said, "I dreamed that I had been inventing all my life." Newton often found something in his dreams. Kekule, a famous German chemist, tried to find the scientific structural formula of benzene for a long time, and later dreamed of the picture of six snakes connected end to end. After waking up, he solved the molecular structure problem of benzene. Goodyear, an American scientist who studied vulcanized rubber, failed for many years. 1939, he was told in his dream that he might as well try adding sulfur, so he succeeded, discovered the vulcanization of rubber and solved the scientific problem of rubber aging. Examples like this are endless.
Fourth, enhance memory.
For a long time, most people think that dreaming is bad for people's memory, but in recent years, experimental research on sleep shows that dreaming can enhance memory. Buck once did an experiment: he first let the subjects sleep in the laboratory for five hours, woke up at 4: 30 in the morning, let them look at a set of line drawing cards, and after reading them twice, let them write what they saw from memory. Then let the subjects go to bed for 2 hours and continue to recall what they saw. As a result, all the subjects who had dreamy rapid eye movement sleep in the last 2 hours did not have memory decline, or even enhanced, and they were able to recall more card contents than two hours ago. However, those who slept for the last two hours are non-fast-moving sleepers, do not dream, and their memory declines. The number of cards they can recall is less than two hours ago. The memory of the other group who didn't sleep for the last two hours also declined.
In order to make the relationship between dreams and memories clearer, some scientists have scanned the sleeping human brain and found that the part of the brain used to learn new things when a person is awake continues to process external information nervously during sleep.
Verb (abbreviation for verb) predicts the future.
Fortune tellers always think that dreams are a sign of good luck or bad luck. The ancient people were superstitious mainly because they regarded this omen as a symbol of gods or ghosts.
Some scholars in ancient China were not superstitious about dreams, but they still believed that some dreams could predict the future. Contemporary scientists have discovered the objectivity of this mysterious experience through modern research methods such as superpsychology and telepathy, but they have not agreed with this superstition, but have further demonstrated the scientific view of this mysterious experience with scientific methods. In fact, some scientific facts can tell us the objective existence and facts of this mysterious experience. Because all natural variations, such as earthquakes, natural disasters and so on. When they are in the initial stage, they will produce certain stimulation to the human body, which can be shaped into dreams in some people's sleep and will happen soon after seeing them.
We can understand the mysterious experience of the premonition function of dreams through some facts. Shortly after the First World War, Jung predicted that the "Blonde Beast" might rush out of the underground prison at any time through in-depth analysis of German patients' dreams, which would bring disastrous consequences to the whole world. Jung made this prediction several years before Hitler's rise.
In the book Time Experiment, written by Dunn, he thinks that time has multi-dimensional branches perpendicular to each other, and anyone's perception can touch not only the present, but also the past and the future, thus drawing the conclusion that prophetic dreams can be trusted. However, because dreams often happen after a period of time in real life, some dreams may be forgotten, so this fact is rarely noticed by people.