Peoples Dreams That Changed The World
Studies of rats learning to navigate mazes during REM sleep show that brain activity mimics the intense animal training within the maze, determining that circuits may be reinforced during REM sleep.
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Neuroscientists and others alike scratched their heads to understand why this occurs several times a night during a regular sleep cycle.
Sigmund Freud theorized that dreams mainly express aggressive impulses, infantile sexuality, and an expression of repressed wishes.
Some other psychoanalysis believed that plans had more to do with feelings of inadequacy or filling a compensational gap within.
Psychologists point more towards dreams helping with memory consolidation and or threat stimulation in more recent times. These leading theories account for some types of dreams but clearly don't define them.
During rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the brain is as active as when we are in our awakened state.
Studies in the 1990s suggested that after learning something new, sleep can help better recall it more quickly than spending the same amount of time pondering it awake.
Recently, studies of rats learning to navigate mazes during REM sleep show that brain activity mimics the intense animal training within the maze, determining that circuits may be reinforced during REM sleep.
In homosapeins, research quantifies the role of REM sleep with memory.
It's a mind-bending thought on why and what dreams signify, especially when they become lucid.
Studies show 8 out of 10 people have had a lucid dream, in which they were consciously aware of it, at least once in their lifetime.
Lucid dreaming is excellent for conquering nightmares and possibly even anxiety. Brain parts tend to work together more fiercely as you become lucid than in any dream phase.
There are ways we can help control our dreams to help work out problems in our day-to-day lives.
People have been able to work out these work-related problems or within their well-being through a process known as 'dream incubation.'
It's a fantastic way to learn to train your dreams.
Dream Incubation Technique
Jot down in a sentence or phrase a problem you're having and place it next to your bed. Have a notepad and pen beside your bedside.
Review the problem a few minutes before bed.
In bed, If possible, visualize the problem in images.
Over and over, tell yourself you want to dream about the problem as you fall asleep.
Upon waking up, I quietly lay there before getting out of bed. Record any trace of the dream and invite more of it to come. Please write it down.
At bedtime, picture yourself dreaming about the problem. Then, write it down on your bedside notepad or "dream journal."
Put objects connected to the problem on your night table or a wall across from the bed.
Five Famous Dreams That Changed The World:
Friedrich August Kekule
This German chemist pulled the Benzene molecule out of two different dreams he's had.
First, in 1865, he saw atoms dance around and link.
Then, when he awoke, he immediately began to sketch what he saw in his dream.
Soon after, Friedrich had yet another one, in which he saw atoms waltz around, then form themselves into string-like objects, moving about in a snake-like fashion.
This vision continued until the snake of particles created a picture of a snake eating its tail. This dream gave Kekulé the image of the periodic structure of benzene.
Dmitri Mendeleev
The Russian chemist and inventor Mendeleev dreamed of a vision in 1869 of the essential acetylcholine of the universe flowing in sequence analogous to a musical arrangement's progression, structured, orderly and beautiful.
Upon waking up, he outlined every element in order from his dream.
So this sequence became known in all chemistry texts that almost everyone recognizes the Periodic Table of Elements.
Otto Loewi
In 1921, Loewi devised an experiment that came to him in several dreams.
On Easter Sunday night, he suddenly awoke and wrote a few notes on a piece of scrap paper.
To his dismay, the following day, he could not decipher it. After finally falling asleep the next night, he again dreamt of a recurrent experiment.
Furthermore, he awoke from his dream, but he trusted his writing this time.
He immediately went to his laboratory and conducted the investigation that had come to him in his dream, which he finished by Easter Monday.
He discovered the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, later winning him a Nobel Prize.
Mary Shelly
Shelley, an English novelist, started writing a story when she was only 18, and the novel was published when she was twenty.
At first it was published in London in 1818. She would find herself in a dream, figuring out the two main scenes in the book we know as Frankenstein.
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi was a Lawyer from India who invented peaceful protesting.
He would be called to lead a nonviolent protest one night in a dream he had. And so, he led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
But unfortunately, he would never receive a Nobel Peace Prize.