Theories about the nature of sleep
There are 3 theories about the nature of sleep. Each of them has supporters and opponents:
- In a dream, the soul is separated from the body. She travels through subtle worlds and is able to meet other souls and deceased relatives. A spiritually prepared person is able to control himself while traveling—a similar experience is shared by people who engage in astral travel. An unprepared person is not able to perceive the subtle world, so his wanderings remain in memory as a mixture of memories, sometimes crossing all boundaries of the reasonable.
- Rest is needed to “reboot” the brain. All the impressions of the day are sorted out, and sometimes old memories flash through. A person often sees himself in everyday or unusual situations. This theory has a fragile basis, since scientists have concluded that the brain does not get tired. Sleep is needed for psychological relaxation, and the thought process is never interrupted.
- A theory that combines both options. It says that first the brain gets rid of the information accumulated during the day. Then, forgetting about earthly problems, the soul goes on a journey through the universe.
Some people deny the existence of the soul and the possibility of out-of-body travel.
Psychologists believe that dreams are a projection of experiences, feelings and dreams . Religious teachings claim that in dreams people not only travel, but also see fragments of memories from past lives.
Dreams and dream books
Sleep is a physiological state of a person, during which the entire body rests . And the images that people visit at this time are evidence that the psyche is freeing itself from the information accumulated over the whole day. But there is another concept, which is based on the fact that during his stay in the kingdom of Morpheus, a person finds himself in the so-called other world and receives all kinds of instructions that some events may happen in life.
The dreams you see depend on a large number of factors : the state of health of the sleeper; because of what happened to the person during the day preceding the dream; from the position in which a person sleeps; from the room in which the sleeper is located and from many others.
In order to figure out what this or that dream portends, dream books have been created. These are books that contain definitions and interpretations of dreams. They appeared in ancient times, when people were very attentive to everything that happened while they were in a different state. We tried to remember our dreams and write them down. And then they observed what happened for several days after the dream. Thus, the first transcripts appeared, which were compiled into books.
Currently, there are a huge number of such books. There are more than 40 . The most famous are Miller’s Dream Book, Freud’s Dream Book, Vanga’s Dream Book, Nostradamus’ Dream Book, Tsvetkov’s Dream Book and many others. And everyone interprets dreams in their own way, but their general concepts are the same.
Whether or not to believe dreams and dream books is up to each person. But dream interpretation has its pros and cons.
Psychology and observation method
Most dream books were created by psychologists. They analyzed their dreams and the dreams of people they knew. They recorded it and compared it with ongoing events. If after a certain dream the same situation occurred 2-3 times, then it was compared with the dream scenario. There are no guarantees that anything close to the prophecy will happen.
Sometimes a feeling of deja vu - a person is sure that he has already seen this situation and knows what will happen. Psychologists claim that a similar moment from the past came to mind and the dreamer decided that he had seen the future.
Many studies by psychologists, upon closer examination, turn out to be poorly supported by facts. A feeling of déjà vu sometimes occurs in a person who has gone on vacation to the other side of the planet and suddenly realized that he has already been here and knows what is about to happen. And indeed, within 1-2 minutes what he was thinking about happens. You can't blame it on psychology.
Previously, conversations about the materiality of thought caused laughter. Scientists are now seeing patterns that prove the claim is true . Having accepted this hypothesis as a fact, one can discern danger in dream books. A person sees a dream and turns to the dream book for an interpretation. It says that the day will be bad. Unpleasant feelings overwhelm you, troubles are expected every minute. The result: absent-mindedness at work, nervousness, which at home results in conflict.
Indeed, the day was not going well - the man mentally prepared himself that it would be an unpleasant day, and so it happened. It is better never to blindly believe the predictions of a dream book.
Foresight or probability?
— Roman Vyacheslavovich, does it happen that a person has prophetic dreams?
- Essentially, a prophetic dream is a prediction of the future. Before considering a dream as a prophetic dream, you need to define the concepts. Please tell me, I dreamed that I was going to work tomorrow. Is this a prophetic dream? After all, I dreamed of the future?
- No, I think this is ordinary reality. If a person went to work yesterday, the day before yesterday, or went to work a year ago, this is a certain future that is ordinary. It’s another matter if you dreamed that you went to work, saw an unusual red cat on the way and took it to your home. And the next day a man goes to work and sees an unusual cat, and takes him home.
- And here there is the concept of probability. Yes, he could have dreamed of a red cat, and there is a chance that he will come across this red cat - maybe one chance in a million. And the person will definitely think that this is a prophetic dream.
Let's say that today I have to give you an interview in my office, and I dreamed that I would leave the house and an angry dog would attack me. And instead of coming to the office, I sit at home, call you and say: “The interview is canceled today because the dog is going to bite me.” What will you think of me? Maybe I was once bitten by a dog, but I shouldn’t take this dream as the ultimate truth.
Another option: I dreamed that I would go out and get hit by a car. I went out and she knocked me down. Prophetic dream? Or maybe I crossed the road in the wrong place a month before, 100 meters from the crossing, and my brain told me: “Idiot, go along the crossing. A car will hit you." So I went out - she knocked me down.
You can predict the situation in a dream, you can think about this dream and even take some action, but you should not perceive this dream as the ultimate truth.
- Let's remember the story from the Bible, when I dreamed of 7 thin cows and 7 fat cows. Dream interpreters (this was a full-time position!) figured out that 7 fat cows are rich years, 7 skinny cows are lean years in Egypt. If everything was so simple with prophetic dreams, maybe there wouldn’t be so many dream interpreters and so much attention to dreams?
“The point is that we save the interpretations of the winners who achieved something with this dream. How many times have we dreamed of things that didn’t come true? Hitler said that during the First World War he dreamed that a bomb was about to hit the dugout. He woke up, jumped out of the dugout - and a bomb hit him. He then believed in mysticism. But why couldn’t you dream in a war that a bomb would hit the dugout, and why couldn’t this happen 3 minutes before it actually gets there? This is pure coincidence. And if he had dreamed that the bomb would hit in 5 minutes, he would not have run out of the dugout, he would have been killed, and we would have known nothing about it.
- After all, he was at war. Maybe when he was sleeping, he heard the sounds of flying bombs and an approaching attack. He probably had some kind of professional perception of sounds during the war?
- This is a kind of probabilistic forecast. That is, if you dreamed about something, you think, analyze and act in accordance with a consciously made decision.
Dream books are generally complete nonsense. I recently found a dream book for Rublev’s wives. There were:
- "Maybachs"
- 2 carat diamonds.
It is clear that Mytishchi wives dream of smaller diamonds and simpler cars. In dream books 150 years ago there were:
- Father Tsar,
- bast shoes,
- hay,
- cows.
And now there are dollars, euros, default.
Fact or Fiction
Sometimes there are chaotic, absurd dreams. They hardly carry any meaning. They reflect experiences, fears, dreams. It’s another matter if you had an obvious, clear dream that you remember well. With its help, deceased relatives, a guardian angel or simply light energy (everyone decides to the extent of their beliefs) gives a warning or a sign.
In this case, there is no point in turning to the dream book - for two people, the same symbol may contain different meanings.
Having seen a vivid dream, you need to think about what it means specifically for a person. Trust your intuition and think through the situation. A vivid dream most likely warns of danger . There is no point in warning about imminent wealth or happiness, while pointing out a threat is important.
The dream book will not help either when you dream of a deceased relative. This often happens after a funeral. Many people see that the deceased is in a brightly sunny field or in another beautiful place - this means that everything is in order with the soul.
When a person mourns a loss too bitterly, a dead man comes in a dream and says that he is drowning. This is a veiled request to stop grieving and tormenting both yourself and deceased relatives. Sometimes the souls of drowned people make it clear where to look for their body. Consulting a dream book is unlikely to give an accurate answer to what a dream means—you need to look at the specific situation in which many factors play a role.
Should we believe ancient dream books?
It is not recommended to believe unconditionally in any dream book. But if you have to choose, then take an ancient Egyptian dream book, for example, or a work written by a famous sorcerer or psychic of the Middle Ages.
It is advisable that the book be compiled in a territory where cultural customs do not differ significantly from your country. For example, in eastern dream books, a pig (a dirty animal) digging in manure promises only troubles (losses, betrayal of friends). And in European dream books nothing seditious is attributed to the image of a pig, whose meat was traditionally eaten as food, but manure, like any other feces seen in a dream, promises to receive money.
Modern dream books
Nowadays there are a lot of scammers making up dream books. Is it worth believing in dreams and dream books when they are sometimes written at random, hiding behind the names of popular people:
- Wangi;
- Freud;
- Miller;
- Loffa;
- Jose;
- Nostradamus.
You should not look in dream books for the answer to any dream. If you turn to them, then only after seeing a clear dream, and not a chaotic flow of information. Then there is a chance that the prediction will be true.
Sometimes there are terrible predictions - death, illness. If you take them too seriously, then it is better not to decipher dreams. The interpretation may have turned out to be wrong, and the person will torment himself with fear and worry.
When thinking about whether you can trust dream books, you should follow the golden mean - turn to them, but perceive the information presented no more than 50%.
It is written that there is danger - you should be more careful, but do not turn into paranoid. With sound reasoning and a calm approach, the dream book will become a harmless assistant, either predicting the truth or deceiving.
Which dream book is correct?
As the famous proverb says, if you want something done well, do it yourself. This rule also applies to dream books. Who, if not the person who dreams, can best interpret them? Of course, this is not so simple, and it will take more than one year to compile a more or less extensive dream book. And this will take a lot of effort. But compiling a dream book is a very interesting activity, so you are unlikely to regret it.
Usually the symbols that we see in our dreams appear for a reason. If our mother told us in childhood that dirt means illness, clean water means recovery, pulled out teeth mean the loss of relatives, and snakes and rats mean enemies, then these images will be firmly and forever imprinted in our minds, and that’s how they stand. interpret, trying to decipher your dream. Over time, if you pay attention to this, you will identify other symbols that will repeat in your dreams and lead to the same results in life. Your own dream book will be based on this, the reliability of which will already tend to 100%.
About scary dreams
In some cases, a person wakes up in the middle of the night covered in sweat. When you have a bad dream, you really forget about everything. I just want to hide my head under the blanket and not think about anything. It seems that anything can happen to you; you completely lose your sense of the reality of what is happening. You jump out of such dreams in the same way that specially trained people jump with a parachute. A sudden awakening is also known to not improve health. Of course, scary dreams can't make you happy.
They tire you out more than even the most grueling work, and form obsessive states and phobias. What can you dream about? Terrible jaws, bloody battles, etc. Should you believe dreams about teeth? Not necessary. You have to take it on faith that they mean nothing. It’s just that the person was overly tired the day before, has unspoken aggression or uncontrollable fear. To get rid of such unpleasant dreams, you must work on yourself. Overcoming fears is not easy, but effort is still necessary. This will help you stop jumping up at night with anxiety.
