Have you ever had a dream that you were falling? How many of you hit the ground? Now, ask yourself this: what if your dreams are real? Perhaps our dismissal of dreams is us taking for granted how our minds put things together.
Everything we experience in our dreams is a rotation of information occurring in our heads. Everyone in here lives in three worlds: the world that is, the world that is perceived, and the world that is dreamt. So, think about this: the world that is, is a world we rarely encounter, it is the undisputed truth that rarely ever surfaces and is rarely ever untouched or unaltered.
Our perceptions will always distort our realities, there is no way around that. But, the disturbing world of inner chaos is grounded in our day to day experience. Our dreams combine verbal, visual, and emotional spurs into a sometimes broken, irrational, but often entertaining, storyline. When we sleep, we go through five sleep stages. The first stage is a very light sleep from which it is easy to wake up. The second stage moves into a deeper sleep, and stages three and four signify our deepest sleep.
There are four elements of dreaming. Condensation, displacement, symbolization, and secondary revision. Condensation is when many different ideas and concepts come together to form a single thought or image. Displacement disguises the emotional meaning of dreams. symbolization represses ideas contained in the dream by including objects that are meant to symbolize something. Secondary revision mixes all of the previous elements to form your dream.
Over the years, many theories have been put forth in an attempt to enlighten the mystery behind human dreams, but, until recently, strong clear evidence has remained largely mysterious. New research published in the Journal of Neuroscience provides fascinating insights into the methods that underlie dreaming and the strong relationship our dreams have with our memories. What we see and experience in our dreams might not necessarily be real, but the emotions attached to these experiences definitely are.
Ever wondered how you can control your dreams and be mentally awake in them? That is called lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming occurs during altered states of consciousness when you realize you are dreaming and your brain switches into waking mode inside the dream. At first, many people are drawn to the idea of lucid dreaming for the relaxation it offers. In your virtual reality dream world, you can realistically fly over cities, or become a ninja assassin. It is way more realistic than daydreaming or playing video games.
You see, dreams reflect the thoughts and concerns of a dreamer's waking life. So, when you are dreaming of falling your body is drifting deeper into sleep, your blood pressure and heart rate drops. it then triggers a “falling” dream which causes you to jerk awake. If you don't jerk awake, however, then what?
