The meaning of dreams
What is the "dream" in Buddhism? Buddhism says that all living beings have eight kinds of knowledge: first, eye knowledge, second, ear knowledge, third, nose knowledge, fourth, tongue knowledge, fifth, body knowledge, sixth, consciousness, seventh, last knowledge and eighth, Aryan knowledge.
Dreams are neither the first five senses nor the second sense of Araya, but the corresponding activities of the sixth consciousness during sleep, which is a dream. So dreams are the heart of the sixth consciousness corresponding to sleep, and have nothing to do with other consciousness.
There is no leakage in the sixth consciousness, the consciousness of Buddha and sage, and the consciousness of ordinary people. There is a sense of leakage, five things and loneliness; The five senses are one of the five senses of eye knowledge and even body knowledge, which play the same role as the sixth sense. The sixth sense only exists when you are awake, such as seeing colors and hearing sounds. The consciousness of walking alone is formed separately after leaving the senses such as eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body. However, the scope of loneliness consciousness is also very wide, which is divided into three parts:
First, when awake, the mind is scattered rather than centralized and unified into a sense of loneliness;
Second, after the revision, a lot of transcendental power has been added, and the consciousness of being alone has been positioned;
Third, the first five kinds can't recognize the current situation when dreaming, but the sixth kind of consciousness is recalled separately, which is the dream-walking consciousness. Those who are not called sleep consciousness, because the so-called sleep usually refers to the static state of blood, and dreams are the activities of consciousness during sleep, indicating that dreams are the sixth consciousness in sleep. With the dream consciousness, you have a dream when you see the same time.
Sleeping heart
Dreams are born in sleep. Know what dreams are and sleep at the same time. Usually called sleep, but physiological; The so-called sleeping place in Buddhism is psychological.
Cheng Weizhi said: "Sleep is sleep, which makes the body uncomfortable and ignorant, and the concept of obstacles is a career." "Sleep the body uncomfortable, the heart is extremely-bad, a turn. In the final stage, when you say goodbye, you feel that sleep is not useless, and you have not deliberately set this name, such as the entanglement of Yugai. "
The sleeping place is one of the functions of the sixth consciousness, that is, the psychological function of consciousness cooperates with the middle place to become the positioning consciousness; The activity of the sleeping heart becomes a dream.
What's the use of dreaming?
First, the influence of sleeping and dreaming on the body.
1. Sleeping and dreaming have positive effects on health. Studies have proved that dreaming can exercise the thinking ability of the brain and make the connection between cerebral cortex enter a more reasonable stage.
Some scientists have proved that sleeping and dreaming also has a very good effect on people's mental health. Some patients with chronic depression adjust their brain waves by computer, and all of them have improved in different degrees after sleep treatment.
3. Sleeping and dreaming can also exercise the brain. Dreaming is a working procedure of the human brain. Some scientists have done experiments. When people sleep and dream, they will detect rapid and disordered brain waves, and the intensity sometimes even exceeds the intensity of work during the day. This experiment can fully prove that people who sleep and dream have their own needs for brain function.
It is normal to sleep and dream, but some people dream too often, which seriously affects sleep, which is abnormal.
Second, what harm does dreaming do to the body when sleeping?
1, Chinese medicine believes that deficiency of qi and blood, deficiency of yin and blood, overwork, phlegm-heat disorder, improper diet and other reasons can cause dreaminess and insomnia.
Western medicine believes that neurasthenia, excessive brain use, incorrect sleeping posture and insomnia will all cause dreaminess, and dreaminess and insomnia are interrelated.
Sleeping and dreaming is a common disease in life. Insomnia and dreaminess will increase the incidence of many diseases, such as coronary heart disease, menopausal syndrome and digestive system diseases.
2. Studies have proved that protein, who is involved in regulating gastrointestinal function during sleep, is very active. Therefore, lack of sleep will inhibit the activity of protein, leading to gastritis, colitis and other diseases.
3, sleeping and dreaming insomnia can also induce mental illness such as depression and anxiety. The study found that the incidence of depression in people with long-term insomnia and dreaminess is three times higher than that in people with normal sleep. At the same time, people who suffer from insomnia and dreaminess for a long time are prone to fear and anxiety. If they are not improved for a long time, they will have anxiety.
In fact, everyone dreams when they sleep. A period of time before entering the sleep stage, the body relaxes, and brain waves show that people's eyeballs are basically "fixed", which is called "slow wave sleep"; After a period of time, you fall into a relatively deep sleep. At this time, if the eye of the sleeper is observed, it is in a relatively fast "rotating" state, and the activity of brain waves fluctuates greatly, entering a fast wave state. This is called "fast wave sleep".
Because people's brains receive a lot of information when they are awake, they make corresponding reactions and actions when all parts of the body are "coordinated" with each other to complete all the actions we need, and a lot of information is stored by the brain (memory, if the received information is "irritating", it is possible to remember it more firmly); After people go to sleep, many parts of the body begin to rest, and some parts of the brain also begin to rest, but some of them are still "sorting out" the information they received when they were awake, so they began to "dream".