What makes dreams feel real

According to Dr William MacLehose, a lecturer in the History of Science and Medicine at University College London, until the s, scientists explained dreaming by saying that imagination was the only part of the brain still functioning while someone slept. They believed the part of the brain that verified reality, on the other hand, was out of action, so the sleeper believed it all. Medieval texts referrred to soldiers who were too cowardly to fight an enemy in real life but then dream about being brave enough to do so later on.

Scientists today can tell whether someone is dreaming and what they might be dreaming about by simply looking at electroencephalogram EEG scans. The study published earlier this year in Nature Neuroscience was the first to demonstrate that brain activity while dreaming mirrored that of the subject when he or she was doing the same thing when awake.

For example, the same parts of the brain recruited in facial recognition were recruited during dreams which included faces. While most of us do not have to think about engaging an enemy in battle, as medieval dreamers did, a similar theme persists in our dreams today as Professor Mark Blagrove, a sleep scientist from Swansea University suggests — our dreams are about solving real life problems.

Studies have shown that when people are asked to note down the contents of their dreams, the vast majority are based on our real lives. Blagrove notes that while we remember the wild and crazy ones more, they only make up about one in ten of our dreams. These studies have also found that dreams in which we overcome threats are far more prevalent than the number of threats we face in modern life. When people are asked to detail their dreams, they manage to overcome a large proportion of the threats in a realistic manner, rather than say flying away to Havana.

Dreams feel so real, Blagrove says, because they are a simulation. When you are on drugs or having a hallucination, you have a reality to compare your experience to. When a dream feels real it means that you are really involved in that dream and that you're thinking hard about something.

Dreams that you remember afterwards are the bizarre dreams that acquire your attention or that didn't make sense. But the things you remember were problems without solution. To be honest with you it happens to me all the time!

I personally don't think that it means necesarilly anything. Some people have more imagination than others and our brains can represent dreams more real rather than other people can!

However, there are internet pages that you can check where they show you what your dreams meant! If you are keen on this stuff maybe you could buy a book about it! If you want to talk about it or have more doubts please message me! I feel as you can look at a dream book and it can decode what is in your dreams I really do belief sometimes your dreams can predict the future or they can rewind and look at the past.

People dream when they are happy about something or something is bothering them and their mind is busily trying to come up with a solution while they sleep. Your subconscious mind is your memory bank. If they are frightening dreams stop and think if you have anything troubling you. If so your mind has gone into its library and tried to match your troubled thinking with outcomes.

Depending on how upsetting the problem is. Your mind can be like a producer seeking out a negative story or a positive story, depending on what you have stored in your brain. The answer is there and your mind is seeking it out. Try to store more positive readings, movies,friendships. Anonymous December 16th, am.

Many people have different visions on what dreams mean. Some will say there is a hidden meaning, as well as some saying that they are just dreams. It is for you to decide which you think is true. Mmm , I had a couple of those dream's and they are nice. Sometimes you have dream's like that because they are trying to tell you an message. It means you are open to the reality of your dreams meaning you have learned to transform thought into action. Anonymous September 14th, am. Dreams that feel real are usually triggered by what you are thinking about before you go to bed, these dreams are usually called 'Lucid Dreams' where you are in full control of what happens and therefore can make what happens in the dream suit your current emotion.

It usually just means that you were thinking about something in detail before you slept, maybe something that was bothering you or something that was making you happy and then when you went to sleep your mind molded your dream around those thoughts making it feel so real to you. For me they feel real when I'm stressed out about something or thinking about something a lot.

It means that your consciousness is so strong that it makes your dreams feel so real. Vivid dreams can be emotionally draining though, and they can disrupt your sleep, which can cause other issues. If they keep happening, vivid dreams can cause health problems. In many cases, vivid dreams will go away on their own.

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