In this article I will talk about dreams and dreaming, the interpretation of dreams, and the meaning of dreams. Throughout history, people have tried to understand what it is to dream and what dreams mean. Some people perceived dreams as a second alternative reality, others as the hidden thoughts of man. Nowadays we can hear a lot of different myths about our dreams, but many people do not even know what dream is, or why we dream about certain things and whether dreams mean something. Let us try to understand these things together.
Every person has conscious and unconscious mental activity. The conscious level of our psyche is manifested in the fact that every day we decide things and commit acts. At night our body turns to the stage of unconscious activity. Indeed, during sleep, we do not have awareness of our actions, we do not remember them. That is why dreams tend to be forgotten so quickly.
So what is a dream and what is it for? Every day the cells of our brain have to actively work to expend their energy. By evening, their ability to respond fully to external stimuli has reduced a lot. First, a man has a feeling of fatigue and, consequently, he falls asleep - at this time our cerebral cortex inhibits. After sleeping, by the morning, the function of nerve cells of the brain is fully restored, and they are ready to begin active work again. Sleeping is as important as food. After all, a human can live without a food for about two months, but without sleep - about two weeks, no more.
There are two types of sleep: slow and fast. During the slow sleep respiratory rate and heart rate decreases, muscles relax and the ranges of movements of the person reduce. In this period of sleep, a person cannot see dreams.
If a person is in a stage of fast sleep, known also as REM (Rapid Eyes Movement), his breathing quickens, his body moves more, especially his eyeballs. During this kind of sleep a person s