1. How do dreams form?
Chinese medicine believes that dreams are special manifestations of mental activities during sleep. Everyone has a soul, the liver hides the soul, and the lungs hides the soul. The generation of dreams is closely related to the soul. ?
Neijing says:? Good and evil attack from the outside, instead of settling down, they turn to pollution, instead of settling down, they follow the camp and fly with the soul, making people unable to lie down and enjoy their dreams. ? Think? Soul flying? It is one of the mechanisms of dreams. ?
What is a soul? ? What are the souls of those who follow their desires? ; What is spirit? ? And those who are good at going in and out are called ghosts and gods? . Simply put, the soul refers to dreamy activities, and the spirit refers to people's instinctive feeling activities. Zhang Jingyue, a great doctor in Ming Dynasty, pointed out:? The soul speaks like a dream without being in a trance, changing the territory of the parade, and everything is also; If you use your spirit, you can do it with kinetic energy, and you can feel the pain from it. ? It can be seen that flying souls actually refer to special mental activities other than conscious mental activities, that is, the feeling of being in a dreamy state. ?
Second, do healthy people have dreams?
Modern medicine believes that dreams are normal and indispensable physiological and psychological phenomena of human body. In the dream, the right hemisphere is dominant, and after waking up, the left hemisphere is dominant. During the 24-hour day and night activities, waking and dreaming alternately can achieve the dynamic balance of neural regulation. As long as you sleep, you will dream. The brain processes dreams and screens memories. People who say they don't dream just forget. If a person really doesn't dream at all, it means there may be something wrong with his right brain. ?
Chinese medicine believes that a truly healthy person should have no dreams. A truly healthy person is the so-called ordinary person in Neijing, with a balance of yin and yang, harmony of qi and blood, good health and no disease. If you are an ordinary person, with the changes of natural yin and yang in one day, the camp guards will operate regularly, and when you fall asleep, your thoughts will be hidden in the human body. Because of the harmony of qi and blood, there is no invasion of external evils and no interference from internal factors, so the mind is stable, the soul is safe, and there is no perception of the overall environment and internal environment, thus achieving a dreamless state. As Liezi said:? Real people in ancient times, they forgot themselves, but slept without dreams.
We have the same experience in life. Sometimes I'm very healthy, I sleep very well, and I don't dream all night. ?
Third, dreams must be unhealthy?
If you dream at ordinary times, does it mean that your body has lost its health? We can't say that, because after all, we still have physical dreams. ?
We live in a complex environment, with the invasion of six evils outside and the disturbance of seven emotions inside, so it is difficult for most people to achieve a truly healthy and average state. At this time, our qi and blood, yin and yang are biased, and the viscera also have their own deficiency and excess. ?
Of course, this deviation is relatively slight, and it can maintain a relative balance and coordination, but it has not reached the point of illness. In this state, we can still sleep peacefully, and our thoughts can be hidden in it normally. ?
Chinese medicine believes that: the heart is the spirit, and the heart governs the five internal organs; The liver stores blood, and blood gives up the soul, and? When a person lies down, blood returns to the liver. ? When the mind is stable in sleep, then the dominance of the mind over the soul will be weakened. If the soul is disturbed by qi, blood and evil spirits. , it can't easily return to his home, fly, a dream is formed. Therefore, at night, the soul sleeps in the liver, and restless people dream more. ?
If we are healthy and healthy, we are not sick. Although we have dreams at this time, the degree of dreams is relatively shallow and the number of dreams is relatively small. When we wake up, we often can't remember our dreams clearly or consciously have no dreams. After waking up, we will feel that we have a good sleep quality and are full of energy. Although we have a dream, it has no bad influence. This is a physiological dream and a normal dream. ?
Fourth, do you think about it every day and dream at night?
Some people dream every day, while others have nightmares every night. Waking up is more tired than not sleeping. In life, we can realize that if the mental stress is too great and lasts for a certain period of time, we will have some nightmares, horrible dreams, and even wake up from sleep, and it is difficult to fall asleep after waking up. We often say that we think about things every day and dream at night. Does this statement make sense? It is very reasonable to analyze from Chinese medicine. ?
On the one hand, everyone has worldly desires, including anger, happiness, sadness and fear of sadness. The changes of seven emotions are closely related to human viscera and qi. Happiness is slow, anger is smooth, thinking is stagnant, fear is smooth, and shock is chaotic. Emotional stimulation in life will lead to changes in human qi, and will also disturb the soul during sleep and become a dream. The former sage said:? If you are too happy, you will dream; If you are too angry, you will dream; If you worry too much, you will dream; If you are too sad, you will dream; If you are too angry, you will dream; If you are too surprised, you will dream.
On the other hand, because the liver governs the drainage, the emotional changes are closely related to the liver, while the liver stores blood and the blood abandons the soul. Various emotional stimuli in life can also disturb the soul through the liver, resulting in the soul being unable to stay at home. ?
5. Are dreams related to diseases?
Dreams are caused by the passing of the soul, and diseases will also affect the normal function of the soul. Therefore, dreams are related to diseases. ?
When the human body is asleep, the mind is hidden inside, the qi and blood are relatively calm, the function of zang-fu organs fluctuates, the yin and yang of qi and blood change, and the parade of evil spirits is obviously enhanced when it is sober. The disturbance of the human body's internal environment to the soul will be reflected in dreams. ?
For example, Neijing said:? When it is full, dreams are afraid of water; When the yang is strong, you will dream of fire and burn; Both yin and yang are glorious, and dreams kill each other; Wealth dreams of flying, wealth dreams of falling. ? It is pointed out that yin and yang are full of qi, dreams are different, qi and blood in the body are different, and dreams are different. ?
For another example, Neijing also said:? Dream when you are hungry, and dream when you are full. ? When you are hungry, you will dream about food, when you hold your urine, you will dream about the toilet, when women pass by, you will dream about destructive scenes and so on. Are caused by various stimuli in the body, disturbing the soul and forming corresponding dreams. ?
Therefore, dreams are the reaction of qi and blood, yin and yang in the body, and the location, nature and prognosis of diseases can be diagnosed through dreams. ?
6. What is sleepwalking?
Sleep dreaming has something to do with the soul. As far as the soul is concerned, when we sleep, because our mind is safe and unconscious, the environmental scenes, story lines, character relationships and speech actions in dreams are closely related to the soul, but because we are not dominated by the mind, the logical relationship is often unreasonable. But at this time, the disturbance of the soul has not affected the soul. ?
From the spiritual point of view: everyone has spirit, and those who are proficient are called spirit; The spirit of form is spirit. Spiritual-oriented sensory perception and the basic function of maintaining life come from nature, and in essence, there is something in and out, including introverted instinctive perception and extroverted instinctive response. When we are asleep, we can still feel external stimuli, including sleeping environment, light, sound and so on. And the state of yin, yang, qi, blood and viscera of the human body. ?
God is integrated with essence and form, so if God is not disturbed, the human body will be more stable during sleep, there will be no obvious speech movements, and there will be no situations such as talking in a dream and sleepwalking. If the soul is seriously disturbed during sleep and can't be at peace when it is stimulated, people will repeatedly turn over, bend their limbs and talk during sleep, or the soul is dominated by the soul, causing the body to wander around with dreams. This situation is called sleepwalking. But because he is still sleeping, his thoughts are hidden in it, and his consciousness is hidden, so he can't know his words and deeds in his sleep. ?
So when the soul is disturbed, it will become a dream, and when the soul is disturbed, it will become a dream talk, even a sleepwalking. ?
Summary:
To sum up, dreams are not mysterious. Dreams are closely related to health. The heart is the master of the five internal organs, and the spirit is the shed. When sleeping, the mind is relatively quiet and relaxed, the restriction of the mind on the soul is alleviated, and the soul is easy to fly and dream. Soul flying is also related to the ups and downs of viscera, qi and blood and even the whole body essence. For example, people with liver-blood deficiency and lung-qi deficiency can't hide their souls, leading to uncertain dreams. (Dong Hongtao)