WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DREAM

What exactly happens when you dream, and why? And do dreams actually have any advantages? Dreams cause the entire brain, from the brain stem to the cortex, to become active. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is when most dreams take place. The reticular activating system, whose circuits stretch from the brain stem via the thalamus to the cortex, regulates this as part of the sleep-wake cycle.

The amygdala, which is mostly linked to fear and is particularly active during dreams, is part of the limbic system in the midbrain, which manages emotions both during waking hours and when sleeping. The cortex is in charge of creating the details of our dreams, such as the flying sensations, the characters we encounter, and the monsters we run from. The visual cortex, located at the back of the brain, is particularly active because we are highly visual creatures, but many other areas of the cortex are also active.

Some of the frontal lobes are the least active, which may help to explain why we can be so receptive of odd events in dreams and believe them as genuine until we wake up.

It's vital to remember that, in general, dreaming is a period of time during which we are all blatantly crazy. And before you possibly discount that diagnosis, let me give you five solid justifications. Because you first started to see things that weren't there while you were having a dream last night, you were hallucinating.

Second, you were deluded because you held beliefs that were simply untrue.

Third, you lost your bearings and are now disoriented with respect to time, place, and people.

Fourth, your emotions swung around like a pendulum. We refer to this as being affectively labile. Then, how fantastic that you remembered the most, if not all, of your dream experience when you awoke this morning. Therefore, you are experiencing amnesia. And you would seek psychological or psychiatric care if you had any of those five symptoms when you were awake.

However, it appears to be a common biological and psychological activity while we sleep and dream. What are the purposes or advantages of dreaming, then? We are aware that REM sleep, also known as rapid eye movement sleep, is the main source of dream sleep. Actually, dream sleep offers the brain at least two advantages. Actually, the first is originality. Because the brain begins to create new connections while you are in REM sleep, and more precisely, while you are dreaming. This is because your brain is able to combine all of the knowledge you have just learned with all of the autobiographical memories you have stored there. It resembles memory group therapy in many ways. And by repeating this informational alchemy cycle at night, we build a new mind-wide web of associations. Additionally, you can begin to divine fresh, original ideas into situations that have eluded you in order to find solutions the following morning. And it's probably the reason no one has ever advised you to stay up late thinking about an issue. Instead, people advise you to give a problem some thought. And we now have solid proof that, rather than just knowing, dream sleep bestows upon you this kind of informational wisdom.

Dream sleep's second advantage is essentially an overnight therapeutic session. We actually begin to numb the agonizing sting of challenging, often devastating emotional events while we are dreaming. And sleep nearly completely separates that emotional, bitter rind from the day's happenings in our memories. In order for us to feel better about such encounters when we wake up the next morning. Dream sleep can therefore be viewed as emotional first aid. And it really just provides a nighttime soother that softens the sharp edges of challenging encounters. Therefore, while time does not necessarily heal all scars, dream sleep time does offer you emotional recuperation.