Chapter 79 Dreams are the harbingers of the human self

Everyone dreams, and this is the strangest and most distinctive thing about this advanced animal.Dreams are a language of images ranging from the mundane to the surreal.In fact, dreams often inspire art and so on.But dreams are not just a kind of self-conscious brain activity of human beings. In many cases, dreams are a kind of self-premonition when human beings face something. Everyone dreams, and this has long been scientifically proven.But if a person feels they didn't dream or only had one dream a night, it's because their memory of those dreams has faded.Dreams that truly meet the scientific definition have only been confirmed in humans.

Some scientists believe that dreams are just a kind of psychological activity of human beings during sleep, and they are the reflection of objective things in the human brain.The bizarre dream in the dream is caused by the illusion caused by the stimulation of various objective things when the human sleep brain is unconscious.For example, the palpitation that seems to be chased when a person is awake with tachycardia turns into a strange and frightening nightmare of being chased in a dream. There is another saying that goes like this: During the day, among our left and right brains, the left brain is in charge of sex, while the right brain is quite imaginative and creative.When we sleep, especially when we are in light sleep, the right brain still works, but at this time the right brain is not controlled by the left brain rationally, and many weird things will be born, which no longer conform to the normal logic.This is one of the reasons for the formation of strange dreams.

But in dreams, people can often perceive things that they cannot perceive when they are awake, such as mild physical symptoms.One explanation is that people receive relatively less external stimuli during sleep, so it is easier to experience their own changes. In fact, in dreams, human beings have not lost their consciousness, and can still use their own logical thinking to think and judge.Dreams can be understood as a complex biological nervous system activity, and different dreams appear due to various stimuli.From this point of view, dreams do not really have any practical meaning.But many ancient scholars gave their own unique insights into dreaming.They believe that the reason why human beings dream, if only from the physiological aspect, will be affected by the following factors:

The "Huangdi Neijing" thinks that "it is the fainting of less qi, which makes people die of dreams".And this point of view has been widely passed on by later generations of thinkers. It is recorded in "Liezi": "Therefore, when the yin energy is strong, one dreams of wading in floods and fears; If you are both strong, you dream of life and death.” Xiong Bolong, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, believed that women’s dreams during pregnancy were related to giving birth to a boy or a girl. The female yin is full of qi, and the yin is full of cold intestines, so the dream is soft."

Medical scientists believe that the energy of the five viscera is also one of the causes of dreaminess. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "when the liver is full, the dream is angry; if the lung is full, the dream is fear, crying, and flying; It is said that if you dream of singing and singing, you can’t lift your body when you are heavy, and if your kidney qi is strong, you can’t dream about the waist and spine.”Moreover, after the development of traditional Chinese medicine to this day, this view has been supported by the mainstream medical circles.After all, although a dream is a kind of thought activity in an unconscious state, it is caused by a disease of the body.It's just that the dreamer is not aware of the changes in his body in a waking state at this time, so it can only be expressed through various images in dreams.

In addition, there are also views that dreams are caused by synaesthesia between internal organs. For example, a thirsty person dreams of water, and a hungry person dreams of food, all of which prove that internal sensations can cause dreams.The most common and scientifically valuable point of view is that disease is also one of the causes of dreams, which coincides with the formulation of the ancients.Dreaming caused by disease has sufficient scientific basis in modern science. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to regard dreaming as an early warning of human self-defense function. What is even more unbelievable is that dreams also have the ability to predict in many cases.It is mentioned in "Zhou Gong Interpretation of Dreams", which has the most folk foundation, that the causes of dreams are originally intricate, and each dream represents a different meaning.It is even more necessary to say that in life, many people have deceased relatives entrusting dreams or predicting some things that will happen through dreams. Although this seems a little unbelievable, it has indeed existed.

Dreaming and interpreting dreams has formed a dream culture among the people. The book "Zhou Gong Interpreting Dreams" circulated among the people was written by later generations in the name of Zhou Gong Ji Dan.The book lists all kinds of dreams and predicts good and bad dreams.Although it was done in the name of Duke Zhou, it can reflect the obsession of the people with the prediction of dreams from the side.There are also many stories about dreams such as Zhuang Sheng's Dream Butterfly, Huang Liang Yimeng, Mengbi Shenghua, Jiang Lang's Exhaustion, Nanke Yimeng, etc. In such an environment, it is difficult not to connect dreams with things that have not yet happened.Among all dreams, the most unacceptable to the dreamer is the nightmare.

During the nightmare, it seems that there is an unknown force oppressing, making it impossible for people to breathe smoothly.People always want to get rid of this nightmare, but they can't open their eyes.This is the scariest dream and has always been considered a bad sign. And whether dreams can predict the future that has not yet happened is not yet conclusive among mainstream scientists.Still, there has been no shortage of bold statements from bold scientists. Dreamers often have a strange experience that what they see in their dreams that day will happen a few days later.This is why people believe that dreams have a predictive effect.However, some "crazy" scientists put forward a point of view that at this time, people have actually entered the thinking space, and being able to dream about things in the next few days can be commonly understood as "time and space travel".Moreover, what a person experiences in a dream for days or even years may only take a few minutes in real life, which means that the dreamer is already infinitely close to the time and space of thinking.

But this point of view can neither be proved to be correct nor proved to be incorrect. The only thing that cannot be explained is where the energy source of people travels through the space of thought. Regardless of whether people's thinking can reach another time and space in an instant, it is an indisputable fact that many people can dream about things in the next few days in advance.Although still difficult to explain, it actually happened in real life.