Surprisingly, a person sleeps for a third of his life. It would seem that this is an integral part of being, but why then do most people know so little about it? Everyone should study this concept, find out the most interesting facts about sleep. Thus, a person will be able to better understand his body, state of mind and even his future.
Dream. What is it
Sleep is a human condition, the rest time of the whole organism and the brain. During this period, our consciousness is completely turned off, and life processes, on the contrary, are activated.
Sleep first comes slow, then fast. Most of the time a person spends in slow sleep. In this state, wasted forces are renewed, the body is restored, the mind relaxes. Next comes the deep state of sleep.
REM sleep is responsible for the restoration of the human psyche. Then the sleeper also sees dreams. Most people do not know many of the interesting facts about sleep described in this article. Well, we'll help fix that.
The most surprising and inexplicable phenomenon can be considered that during REM sleep, unexpectedlythe processes of respiration, the work of the heart, and the nervous system become more frequent. This phenomenon just as suddenly passes. Perhaps this is how the body prepares for danger.
The difference between sleeping and dreaming
There is a difference between the terms "sleep" and "dream". Some, however, do not see any difference between them. Although it is quite significant.
The first term means a normal physiological process that a living organism needs: peace of mind and brain.
The second term means an inexplicable concept: pictures, images and people who dreamed of a person during sleep.
In everyday speech, it is easier for people to say that they had a dream than a dream. There is nothing terrible here, but it is still worth understanding such concepts.
Why does a person see certain dreams
Mankind knows many interesting facts about sleep. For example, why we see a certain person, do incomprehensible things, find ourselves in strange or scary situations. These are far from mystical manifestations, but ordinary brain activity.
The brain is designed in such a way that it can control and feel the slightest disturbances and manifestations in the body. Most people don't even know about these things. Our subconscious gives signals through sleep: what a person should pay attention to, what worries his body.
A person sees terrible dreams when his psyche is agitated. The reason may be fatty food before bedtime, various mental problems, a sudden change in diet.
Dreams are divided into 4 types:physiological, creative, factual, compensatory.
It is from a certain type of process that one can learn specific interesting facts about sleep.
For example, when we are hot at night, we dream about how we are lying in a hot bath. This is physiological sleep.
The most famous table of chemical elements that a brilliant scientist dreamed of can be attributed to a creative dream.
If in a dream a person "lives" a previously lived day, such a dream should be attributed to the actual one.
Sleep, after which you do not want to wake up, because the sleeper lives the most pleasant moments of life, is called compensatory.
Prophetic dreams
Scientifically, dreams that are prophetic are allowed.
But there are also quite interesting facts about sleep and dreams: during the whole day a lot of information is available to a person, but the brain cannot fully “digest” most of it. And the subconscious in a dream puts the forgotten and unaccepted puzzles into a heap. Then the person receives the truthful information, which he allegedly learns about later.
This fact is accepted by many experts and scientists.
But still there is a completely inexplicable side of prophetic dreams. For example, President Lincoln had a dream about a funeral a few days before his own death. Or Lomonosov saw a dead father in a dream, and soon he died. How could these people's brains have previously learned such information? These facts from historycompletely inexplicable.
Our ancestors said that sleep can warn of something. You just need to be able to unravel the prophetic symbols.
The interesting facts we reveal about sleep don't stop there. Here's another one: more than 70% of people on Earth have had prophetic dreams at least once. But at the same time, the notion that prophetic dreams come from Thursday to Friday is unproven and false.
Lethargic dream
Lethargic sleep implies a state when the body is motionless, and consciousness is turned off. The vital processes of the body fail: breathing becomes barely perceptible, the pulse is almost not felt, and the body temperature drops.
There are two forms of such sleep: light and heavy. In the first case, this state can easily be confused with ordinary sleep. The only difference is the complex awakening of the person.
The severe form is more frightening: during such a dream, a living person can not be distinguished from a dead one. His skin turns pale and he can't feel his breath at all.
It is completely impossible to control such a dream: it is not clear how long an individual can be in such a state.
From a medical point of view, a disease in a dream that cannot be predicted and detected is lethargic sleep. Interesting facts taken from history suggest that in the Middle Ages this problem was already widely known.
Many suffered from the phobia of being buried alive. The scientific term for such a phenomenon is taphophobia.
At that time they made specialcoffins from which a person could easily get out.
Doctors in the Middle Ages could not distinguish lethargic sleep from death, so there are cases when a sick person was considered dead.
It is known that Nikolai Gogol is one of the most famous tapophobes. He was very afraid of being buried alive and in recent years he even slept sitting up. He warned his relatives to bury him only when they saw clear signs of decomposition.
Many say that the writer's biggest fear came true: he was buried sleeping. After all, when his grave was reburied, they saw a skeleton in an unnatural pose. But an explanation was found - allegedly due to the impact of rotten boards, the position of the skeleton was disturbed.
The main causes of such a disease have not yet been found. But one of them is frequent stress and prolonged illnesses.
Sleep problems
Scientifically proven that you need to sleep about 8 hours a day. Violating such a law, a person increases the risk of premature death for himself. But what if a good sleep is interrupted by ailments?
There are several of them: insomnia, respiratory distress, long-distance flight disease, restless legs syndrome, bad dreams.
It has long been believed that some amulets can protect a he althy sleep and save a person from terrible dreams. They are dream keepers. Interesting facts about such amulets are known from the legends of Indian tribes. Amulets were made in the form of a web for a reason, because Native Americans believed that bad dreams stick to the web, and good ones pass through it further.
Now such amulets are also popular. They are bought in souvenir shops or made by hand. Dreamcatchers are hung at the head of the sleeping person.
With other problems, a somnologist will help a person cope. Such a profession has become very popular in the last 5 years.
Some interesting facts about sleep have been proven by scientists. So, smokers are more prone to restless sleep. Depression also affects those people who often lack sleep. Our thinking is less efficient when we sleep less than usual.
How to control dreams
Science has long begun to study this issue. For several decades, some scientists still managed to control their dreams. Fredrik van Eden has published a manual that provides a detailed guide to dream control. The scientist himself claimed that he brilliantly mastered this technique.
Stephen LaBerge, an American expert on conscious dreams, has published a series of guides to the practice of dream control. Moreover, he invented miracle glasses that can make a person realize their dreams. These glasses are commercially available and available worldwide.
The scientist wanted to use this method to reveal the most interesting facts about human sleep, and also to teach the whole world to look at the usual physiological state in a different way.
So, a simple way to control sleep is to imagine what you want. If a person thinks about something for a long time, dreams, even writes thoughts in a notebook, he will definitely dream about it. It is recommended that you write down yourdreams. Thus, it will be possible to control them. By describing in detail what you want to see, your subconscious will “project” what you want in a dream.
The most interesting facts about sleep
- Blind people see dreams in their own way: they do not distinguish pictures, but they feel, understand, feel everything that happens in a dream.
- A fetus in the womb can also sleep as early as 25 weeks of gestation.
- Non-smokers have more vivid dreams than smokers.
- In most cases, people feel deja vu because of a dream.
- Objects, events, animals can be symbols that need to be unraveled. In other cases, what you see in a dream is a projection of the brain onto dreams and thoughts.
- Unknown people in a dream a person will not see. All the heroes of his dreams are those whom he has met at least once in his life.
- By the postures of a sleeping person, you can determine his psychological type of personality.
- Man remembers only 10% of his dreams.
- When a person snores, he cannot dream.
Every night, almost all people on the planet enter the world of adventure - they see different dreams. Most of the phenomena associated with dreams and dreams have not yet been scientifically proven. Therefore, every person plunges into the unknown at least once a day. But do not be afraid of dreams, you just need to listen to them.
