Buenas tardes mi amigos.. What quickly pops in your mind when you hear the word ‘DREAMS’. I sometimes try to interpret my dreams if I get a nasty one, where I will be running for my life with absolute no idea who is chasing me, or seeing snake coming out of no where. I tend to think am i the only one getting such weird dreams? I also wonder what goes on inside our brain as dreams take their course. Let me share with you what I learnt about dreams and our brain activity.
It is said that, the memories of our life events which is also called as episodic memories gets stored in a part of the brain called the hippocampus. During rapid eye movement (REM) sleep signals coming out of the hippocampus are shut off and the activity in brain regions which involves in emotional processes also gets cranked up. Because of this shut off and crank up, we will not be able to access the past memories specifically but can only access it generally. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain which controls our powers of both logical reasoning and decision making also gets shut making us not to question the illogical things that happens in our dream while we are dreaming.
This explains why dreams happens to be weird, as mulitple parts of brain gets either shut off and cranked up🙍
Experiments have shown that people dream throughout their sleep and not only just in REM sleep, but they forget most of them. It is also found that most boring, non-vivid dreams which are hard to remember occurs in deep sleep whereas the dramatic, disturbing, puzzling kind of dreams occur during REM sleep.
Sometimes irrespective of how much time we try to remember, we fail to get hold the dream we just had few minutes ago. It is explained that people who remember dreams have greater activity while asleep and awake in two parts of the brain involved in promoting images and storing memories than people who don’t remember their dreams.
It is found that we will probably remember dreams after waking more clearly if we don't use an alarm to wake up..But how ?? When we wake up to the buzzing sound of an alarm clock, we cut our REM sleep which causes sudden switch of focus from being dreaming to awake and interferes the process of remembering.
Found this information fascinating and so shared..
Thank you for time..
Lets keep our soul searching…
