1 What is the dream?
China people's understanding
Dream Theory in Huangdi Neijing
The Yellow Emperor said: I would like to smell evil spirits, but what can I do? Qi Bo said: Good and evil attack from outside, and they are not safe. Instead, he indulges in filth and cannot settle down. They walk with the camp and guards, but fly with the soul, making it impossible for people to lie down and enjoy their dreams. If the fu-organ qi is yin, it is more than exterior and less than interior; If the gas is dirty, it is more than inside, but less than outside.
Huangdi said: More than enough, tangible? Qi Bo said: When the yin is full, the dream is afraid of flood; When the yang is strong, you will dream of fire and burns (burning heat); Both yin and yang flourish and dreams kill each other. Dream of flying when you are prosperous, and dream of falling when you are prosperous; Dream when you are hungry, and dream when you are full; When the liver is full of gas, the dream is angry and the lungs are full of gas, then the dream is afraid and cries and flies; If you are full of enthusiasm, you will dream of laughter and fear; If you have a big temper, you will dream and sing, and your body will not lift; If kidney qi is sufficient, dreams, waist and spine will not return. All these twelve sheng, with diarrhea, stand.
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Ancient thinkers in China realized that dreaming may also be caused by physiological factors. There are four physiological factors involved by ancient scholars in China: (1) deficiency or excess of yin and yang in the body. As mentioned above, dreams are an unstable state in sleep. Sleeping restlessly is often caused by insufficient or excessive yin and yang in the body. Ancient thinkers and medical scientists in China believed that the lack of certain "Qi" during sleep made sleep unstable, which led to dreams. Huangdi Neijing holds that it is the lack of qi that makes people dream. Ancient thinkers and medical scientists in China also believed that the excess of Yin and Yang during sleep could also make people dream. Huangdi Neijing also thinks: "When yin is abundant, the dream fears the flood; when yang is abundant, the dream burns; when both yin and yang are abundant, they kill each other;" If you are rich, you will dream of flying. If you are not prosperous, you will dream. " [26] This view was widely inherited by later thinkers in Huangdi Neijing. For example, there is a similar saying in Liezi: "Therefore, if the yin is strong, the dream will fear the flood; Yang Qiang dreams of fire burning @ ②: Yin and Yang are strong, dreams of life and death. " [27] Xiong Bolong, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, believed that a woman's dream during pregnancy was related to giving birth to a boy or a girl: "When a boy is young, his intestines are hot, so his dreams are stiff; The daughter is full of yin and the yin is full of cold intestines, so the dream is soft. " [28] (2) Excessive qi in the five internal organs. In ancient China, thinkers and physicians believed that excessive qi in the five internal organs was also a physiological factor that caused dreams. As the saying goes, "Excess of liver qi leads to anger in dreams, excess of lung qi leads to fear of crying and flying in dreams, while excess of heart qi leads to fear of laughing in dreams. Excess of brand qi leads to happiness in dreams, while excess of kidney qi leads to two solutions in dreams" [29]. The above two factors had considerable influence and authority in ancient times. We believe that if these two factors contribute to the discussion or analysis of the causes of dreams, this contribution is that they have made a tentative discussion on the physiological mechanism of dreams and given some enlightenment to future generations. However, this discussion only stays in the stage of subjective speculation and lacks scientific basis, so these theories that have had a great influence in history lose their significance with the development of modern science. (3) Visceral sensation leads to dreams. For example, Cheng said, "When you dream, you can not only smell your thoughts, but also feel your internal organs." [30] They think that dreams are caused by "visceral feelings" or "inner feelings". Thirsty people dream of water and hungry people dream of food, which proves that inner feelings can lead to dreams. (4) Too much qi and blood leads to more dreams. Closely related to the above viewpoints, there was another viewpoint in ancient China that dreams were caused by excess of qi and blood in the body. For example, Wang Fuzhi thinks: "Dream when you are prosperous, and stop dreaming when you are in decline; Dream or not, but don't move with time; Blood gas drops, and the region is not rich. However, the dreamer is born of blood, not temperament. " He also said: "shape, the feeling of blood and gas is also." Dreamer, the spirit of flesh and blood. " [3 1] I think that compared with the above three viewpoints, the subjective speculation of this viewpoint is more important and has no scientific basis. If we want to be sure, we can only say that it has contributed to adhering to the monism of physical materialism and treating dreams as the product of physiological activities. (5) Disease causes dreams. Ancient thinkers and medical scientists in China generally believed that physical illness was one of the reasons why people dreamed. As mentioned earlier, Wang Fu's "Meng Han due to yin disease, dreaminess due to yang disease, dreaminess due to internal diseases and dreaminess due to external diseases" is. The most typical and detailed exposition of dreams caused by diseases is Sui Fang's Theory of Various Pathogens. He said: "people who are exhausted by their husbands are weak in qi and blood, weak in viscera and vulnerable to evil injuries." Good and evil come from outside, but they don't precipitate. On the contrary, it is too dirty to settle down. They walked with Wei Rong, but they flew with the soul, which made people restless and dreamy. " [32] Dreams induced by diseases have sufficient scientific basis in modern science. As can be seen from the above, among the above physiological factors, the disease-induced dream is the easiest to "test", so its reliability is the greatest.
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Mr. nan huaijin's Interpretation of Dreams
On the origin of dreams, Buddhism can be divided into five parts: one thought, two memories, three diseases, four uplifting images (experience images) and five elements (future facts). Dreams work. This is monocular consciousness, also known as monocular consciousness. It is equivalent to the psychological subconscious. Consciousness has a distinct function, and the consciousness at one end is the shadow of consciousness. Alone in a sleep coma, even at rest, it plays a role. This paper discusses five kinds of dreams.
1. dreamer: if the mind is specialized and the meaning sticks to personnel and material desires, dreams will appear when sleeping. But it can only allude to things, or simply refer to dreams, combined with physical illness, past experiences and so on. , form a dream. The most obvious example, such as lovesickness of men and women, is easy to dream. All this is a dream.
Second, the dreamer: it is also close to thinking, but the role of memory and thinking is different. Thinker, consciousness plays an ideological role; Memorizers are used to what they see, smell, feel and know. They don't need to think consciously, but they are unexpected. For example, Lu Fangweng's poem said, "I didn't know everything was empty until I died, but I couldn't see Kyushu. Julian Waghann set the Central Plains Day in the north, and the family sacrifice did not forget to tell Nai Weng. " A poem in the Tang Dynasty said: "Crossing the fence to the small bridge, there is a red jiao in the shadow of Populus davidiana. There is no difference in vision, and I don't want to put my heart down. " Such a so-called unwilling person is also remembering. As Li Houzhu said, "If you keep cutting, you will be confused. It is parting, especially the general taste in your heart. " Everyone remembers the deep-seated phenomenon, so that dreamers also remember their dreams.
Third, dreamers: such as diet stagnation, physical obstacles and heavy dreams, or being chased and struggling. Another example is that blood can't be distinguished, and those who are wet dream of water. Those who are inflamed and full of fire dream of fire. If the blood circulation is too fast and the atmosphere is strong, then dreams will fly. For example, dreams of high blood pressure, low blood pressure, blue dreams of liver diseases, red and purple dreams of heart diseases, yellow dreams of spleen diseases, white dreams of lung diseases, black dreams of kidney diseases, even horrible dreams, happy and happy dreams can all be controlled by diseases. Can also be used in the first two.
Fourthly, people in MUBI: people who have dreamed in the previous three kinds of dreams, or who are involved in past experiences, or who relive the past in their dreams, so they rarely have more impressions than the usual knowledge and experience. If there is, it is not a dream that can explain it.
5. Dreamer: It is very unpredictable, just like a dream that has never been experienced, a stranger, an inexperienced thing, etc. But after a few days, the bodies are connected and the symbols of dreams are known, which shows that dreams have an effect. This kind of dream needs to learn from Buddhism and know that her husband is "idealistic in the three realms and only knows everything." "In the tenth century, from ancient times to the present, I have never been separated from my thoughts, nor have I been separated from him." If we understand this, we can know that the intimate consciousness and the hidden nature of the Tathagata have everything, including all parts of San Ji, including the ten directions.
If we know the causes of dreams, then we can know that auspicious dreams and horrible nightmares are the realization of consciousness, and there are clues to be found, and there is nothing strange. Looking around the world, people are often happy because of good dreams or worried because of nightmares. Actually, the same thing is the other way around. Zhuangzi also didn't say anything: "I really don't know Dream Butterfly Week? Suppress Zhou's dream butterfly? " Are you an idiot? Knowing that it is a dream is already a mirage. Which one is for testing? It's not the same as carving a boat for a sword. There is a way to cultivate dreams in Tibetan secrets, and dreams are the gateway to the Tao. Another example is a prisoner who is waiting for a sentence. All hope is gone, and he has no dreams after being sentenced. Buddhists often sleep at night without dreams; Or even in a dream, it is still vivid, and Gai has come to a rude awakening. There is a saying that Zhuangzi said that "the supreme person has no dreams", which means that all saints have no dreams; In fact, it's not dreamless, and the dream wakes up like an ear! If there is no dream at all, why does Sakyamuni dream of the golden drum and Xu Anni dream of the Duke of Zhou and drink two cups? Zhuang Zhou dreamed of butterflies, which is not a human dream! Its significance can be thought deeply. Ordinary so-called dreamers are in a sleep coma. Modern physiologists say that the function of dreams is caused by the incomplete rest of the cranial nerves. Idealism and materialism are indisputable. The so-called dreamer is that after waking up, the five senses are still in use, and when the consciousness is clear, he can remember yesterday's dream. Everything in a dream is unpredictable and uncontrollable, so it is called a dream. Who knows that in our daily life, the use of the six roots is constantly moving, such as the color of the eyes, which is fleeting when it turns, just like a dream; The smell of ears, nose, tongue, body movements and thoughts of the mind are impermanent and can be captured. What difference does it make if they don't have dreams? When the day's work is over, close your eyes and sleep, and everything is gone, then what you do during the day is not a dream! The dead no longer come, and the future has not yet arrived. Year and month, day and hour, minute and second, time changes, there is one thing and one method. The so-called realist is just a flash of fate, and fate is gone! If you can observe carefully, there is no difference between day and night.
Foreign scientific interpretation
Why do people dream, what is the meaning of dreams, and what effect do dreams have on people? For thousands of years, dreamers, psychologists and neurobiologists have been looking for this, but so far they have failed to find the answer to this mystery.
More rigorous scientific research on dreaming began in17th century. 1886 Robert, an expert on dreams, believes that people are exposed to countless information intentionally or unintentionally in their daily activities, and they must release some of these information through dreams. This is the famous theory that "dreaming is to forget", which began to be popular again in the1980s one hundred years later. Shortly after Robert, Freud's theory of psychological dream interpretation appeared again. Freud believed that people constantly have desires and desires, which are expressed and released through various disguises and deformations in dreams, so that they will not break into people's consciousness and wake people up. That is to say, dreams can help people eliminate those desires and desires that are unacceptable to the conscious system and are the guardians of sleep protection. Freud's theory was popular from the beginning of this century to the 1960s. Later, the study of dreams in the world slowly left the field of psychology and entered the biological laboratory. Since then, dreaming has been regarded as a biological phenomenon. Michel Jouvet, a neurobiologist at the Dream Research Laboratory in Lyon, France, is an internationally renowned expert in dream research. Jouvet defined dreaming as "parasomnia" in 1959. He found through EEG test that people have 5 ~ 20 minutes of dreamy sleep every 90 minutes, and the signals reflected on the instrument screen are different, showing the changes of brain activity during sleep. If the subject is awakened when the EEG shows dreamless sleep, he will say that there is no dream; If you wake him up when he shows dreamy sleep, he will remember the dream he just had. In addition, the researchers used X-ray tomography technology to test and found that the image of the brain in dreamy sleep stage is close to that in waking state. Interestingly, the researchers found that dreaming is not unique to human beings, and birds and all mammals also dream. In the late 1970s, a scientist discovered through experiments on mice that dreamy sleep was also related to memory. Dreamy mice can remember their experiences better than those deprived of dream sleep, but the results of this study are not applicable to humans, because doctors use an inhibitor called monoamine oxidase when treating patients with mental depression, which can completely cancel people's dream sleep, but will not cause memory impairment. Wei Ru, a French expert on dreams, believes that dreams are determined by genetic factors. He compared the letters and numbers that mice emit when they sleep in dreams, and found that mice with the same genetic system have similar letters and numbers. A recent experiment by Bulga, a researcher at the University of Colorado in the United States, confirmed this theory. Bulga studied identical twins and found that twins who were raised by two different families in different places after birth actually had similar dream experiences, which proved that human dream performance is genetic memory.
In addition, there is a recent report on dreaming research in the just published American Science Weekly. The author of this report, a cooperative team of the Washington Institute of Neuroscience and the National Institute of Health in Bocaistar, Maryland, tested more than a dozen people who accepted the experiment with a high-performance neural tomography camera and found that the blood circulation in this specific area of their cerebral cortex was abnormally accelerated during the dream sleep stage. The researchers found that the visual nervous system responsible for seeing dream scenes and external visual scenes in the brain originally existed independently. According to the report, after seeing that the internal visual system of dreams has been proved to exist independently, it can explain why we have inflated emotions in dreams and why we can accept unreasonable eccentric plots and chaotic concepts of time and space.
Dreaming is a normal and indispensable physiological and psychological phenomenon of human body. After people fall asleep, a small number of brain cells are still active, which is the basis of dreaming. Why do people dream and what happens if they don't dream?
Normal dream activity is one of the important factors to ensure the normal vitality of the body.
Scientists have done some experiments to stop people from dreaming. That is to say, when the sleeper has a dream brainwave, he is immediately awakened to stop his dream from continuing, and so on. The results show that deprivation of dreams will lead to a series of physiological abnormalities of human body, such as blood pressure, pulse, body temperature and skin electrical response ability, and the function of autonomic nervous system will be weakened. At the same time, it will also cause a series of adverse psychological reactions, such as anxiety, tension, irritability, perceptual hallucinations, memory disorders, irritability and so on. Obviously, normal dream activity is one of the important factors to ensure the normal vitality of the body.
Dreams are a way to coordinate the balance of human psychological world.
Because the right hemisphere is dominant when dreaming and the left hemisphere is dominant after awakening, the dynamic balance between nerve regulation and mental activity can be achieved by alternately waking up and dreaming during the 24-hour day and night activities of the body. Therefore, dreams are a way to balance people's psychological world, especially for people's attention, emotions and cognitive activities.
Dreamless sleep is not only of poor quality, but also a sign of brain injury or disease.
Recent research results also confirm this view, that is, dreams are the result of the brain's regulatory center balancing various functions of the body, and dreams are the need for the healthy development of the brain and maintaining normal thinking. If the brain's regulatory center is damaged, dreams will not form, or only some incomplete dream fragments will appear. If you sleep for a long time without dreams, it is worth people's vigilance. Of course, if you have nightmares for a long time, it is often a sign of weakness or some diseases.
2。 Why do you dream?
1 "What you care about, like, like and often watch in your daily life. It is normal to dream at night. As the saying goes, think every day and dream every day. If you think too much during the day, you will dream at night. You like watching zombie movies. It's normal to have zombie dreams.
But having this nightmare often is bad for your rest and sleep. Sleep should be able to relax and relieve fatigue. But often having nightmares will affect daily life. People have more than a dozen dreams in one night, and their eyes move quickly. More than a dozen dreamers often remember only one before waking up, so it is normal to be awakened and remember the content of the awakened dream.
2 "It is that your life is too stressful, you are depressed, you are often nervous, and you are prone to nightmares."
3。 What should I do? Solve it. I'll make some suggestions.
1 "Develop good living habits and laws. Can effectively reduce nightmares.
2. Strengthening physical exercise, running more (long-distance running, jogging) and taking a walk after meals are all conducive to relaxing mood and relieving stress. You can eat some fruit, milk, snacks and listen to some soothing music before going to bed, which is good for sleep. Experts believe that sleeping on an empty stomach is easy to dream. Distract your attention. You can recite English words before going to bed. It doesn't matter if you can't remember them. Sleeping when sleepy can promote sleep and prevent nightmares. On the other hand, it can improve your memory. Experts believe that the best time for people to remember is before going to bed. It's easy to remember when you review in the morning. Kill two birds with one stone It is forbidden to take sleeping pills, especially sleeping pills. As the so-called three poisons of drugs, drugs are prone to dependence. If you take sleeping pills, you won't be able to sleep without sleeping pills in the future, and people's stress will increase, so they will be nervous and irritable. Many stars have taken sleeping pills for a long time, and finally their hearts are full of twists and turns, and many have committed suicide.
3> Change your hobbies. In fact, people's hobbies can be changed, such as ghost movies, zombie movies, horror movies and bloody violence movies. This is definitely not a good hobby. Doing something for a long time will make them interested in it. Listening to more elegant music, piano music and symphonies will help to improve one's personal quality, and seeing more beautiful things, such as the animal world, will help to relax and have an optimistic attitude.
4>| Relax and relieve stress in normal life, go out more, travel when you have time, and go for a walk in the park to breathe fresh air.
4. The meaning of dreams
1. Personally, I think dreams are "dreaming to forget". People have a lot of useless information to forget every day, just like the garbage recycling bin of computers. You often think about these zombies every day, and at night, your brain will think these memories are useless and delete them. The process of deleting them is dreams, and dreams are these broken things that want to delete and remember memories. It's like screwing up.
2. The possibility of zombie problem is one in ten thousand. The so-called sky is falling, and there are experts to hold it, so don't worry too much. After all, the government, the army, the rich and the consortium control it. If there is a zombie, bite the Japanese dog first. If there are ghosts and gods, we must believe in them, and don't be superstitious. Stay away, respect and stay away are the best standards. It's no use saying that you don't do anything wrong and are not afraid of ghosts knocking at the door.
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