How to distinguish a dream from reality. The human brain does not distinguish between dreams and reality. What are lucid dreams?

Dr. Robert Stickgold, one of the experts in the field of dreams, believes that such dreams are the brain's attempt to sort through various memories in search of connections between them. Thus, the memory of a dog is compared with memories of a trainer and a trip to a restaurant. The brain looks for cross connections that sometimes coincide with reality, sometimes not.

At the same time, other studies have shown that "strange" dreams occur when increased activity in the right amygdala, which is also responsible for the formation of memories. Apparently, the more difficult it is for the brain to find connections between different memories, the more bizarre the content of our dreams.

In the 1960s Medical Center Maimonides in New York decided to test whether dreams could predict the future. During the experiment, participants were divided into two groups: members of one of them were awake, concentrating on a specific image, and members of the second were asleep at that time.

After waking up volunteers from the second group while they were in REM sleep, the researchers asked them to report the content of their dreams. It turned out that the majority saw in their dreams the images that the subjects from the first group contemplated!

According to some researchers, so-called “prophetic” dreams are nothing more than coincidences. We simply see a combination of different images in our dreams, they say, and sometimes this coincides with reality.

But, on the other hand, very often the number of such coincidences exceeds the probability percentage. For example, people often see in their dreams various tragic events that are about to happen.

On October 21, 1966, a coal mudflow hit the mountain village of Aberfan in Great Britain, burying and destroying many houses and public buildings, including a school. The day before, nine-year-old Eril Jones dreamed that she was going to school, and instead of the school building there was some kind of black mass. Eryl died along with other children who came to class that fateful day...

But other people hundreds of kilometers from these places also had dreams predicting a terrible catastrophe in Aberfan. One woman dreamed that a child was running along an unfamiliar street, and a black stream was rolling behind him, another dreamed of a child screaming in horror in a telephone booth, which was being overwhelmed by an avalanche of dirt. To some person - a herd of black horses racing from the mountains to the village. Another simply heard the word “Aberfan” in a dream, although at the time he did not even know what it meant. A certain Miss Milden watched in a dream as diggers pulled out the bodies of dead children from under the rubble. Three days later she saw the episode on TV. A resident of Kent received information about the date of the upcoming terrible disaster. True, he did not know what exactly was going to happen...

In some cases, it is possible to give such phenomena a rational explanation. According to psychologists, our subconscious is capable of capturing and “accumulating” various factors that are not recorded by consciousness. Thus, our brain is able to subconsciously record visual or auditory information and draw conclusions. In a dream, they can transform into “ready-made” events. Let's say we can subconsciously detect a malfunction in a car, say, a change in the sound of the engine, but this does not reach our consciousness. But at night we dream that the car has broken down, and soon there will actually be a breakdown or an accident...

Various natural Disasters there are signs, such as atmospheric changes, animal behavior, etc. Especially sensitive people again they are perceived on a subconscious level...

Although, of course, the content of “prophetic” dreams cannot always be explained by the work of the subconscious. Still, there are still many mysteries in our psyche that are still inaccessible to scientific understanding.

Tell us what you dream about at night and we will tell you who you are. This is how we can roughly describe the meaning of dreams. Because dreams are significant part our life. By the way, they can heal and show you the right path. In a dream, the transmission of subtle matters occurs. "God created dreams to show the way to the sleeper whose eyes are in darkness."

The turn of the millennium became a turning point in the history of the world. Collapse of the USSR, Internet, computers, mobile connection... Nowadays the virtual component of life (dreams, daydreams, memories, projects) is 80 percent, and the real component - actions, actions - 20 percent. Time hid in dreams. They are like street cleaners, sweeping the streets of our soul so that it is cleaner in the morning.

Dreams are as familiar as breathing, so we do not value them, although in the structure of human wealth they occupy special place. “It is not surprising that in dreams everything happens to people that they do in life, that they think about, care about, and see and do and plan while they are awake.” (Cicero, “On Divination” I, 22). Alexander Pushkin wrote down his dreams in which he composed poetry. Mendeleev “saw” his famous table of elements in a dream.

On the Internet, when you click “Dreams of Philosophers, Poets, Artists,” “God Ex Machina” returns hundreds of thousands of pages. Dreams - concentration creativity personality. Magicians consider dreaming to be the art of hardening the human energy body. They are convinced that in a dream a certain volatile part leaves the body to travel in the noosphere, arosphere, and overcome time and space. One day I dreamed of England. They announced international competition dreams

They showed on special dream screens best dreams peace. Therefore, I propose organizing a dream competition among readers. This will also have therapeutic value. Even those who suffer from insomnia will be able to concentrate and remember their “sleepy series”. In the near future, sanatoriums in Russia will offer therapeutic dreams and “custom-made dreams.”

Mikhail Gorbachev once admitted that his wife Raisa Maksimovna dreamed about such things every night vivid dreams, each of which could become a story or novel. You cannot know yourself without knowing your dreams, for they are God’s pointers.

Creativity, as Marina Tsvetaeva said, is a controlled dream, and poets differ from each other only in the plots of their dreams and their verbal embodiment... For her, sleep was one of the embodiments of life and at the same time a mystical connection between life and death. The dream opened the door to the other world, to immortality. A dream is a fulfillment of desires.

Imitating Marina Tsvetaeva, I write down many “flights in dreams and in reality” in a diary called PM - “Paradoxical Muse”. Dozens of PM notebooks, written over fifty years, store dreams-tests, dreams-construction, dreams-roads, erotic dreams... PM are my cosmodromes for launching rockets into “parallel space”. Sometimes I see “from there” invisible connections between people and phenomena. God created dreams to show the way to the sleeper whose eyes are in darkness (ancient Egyptian text).

Dreams keep the secret of time! They burn years in a minute. The world survived because he fell asleep on time and dreamed. Philosophical dream: During a snowstorm, the prophet speaks to me mysterious words: “The time that has passed is coming, and the time that is coming has already passed.” I wanted to know the truth. I found out, but forgot - I woke up and can’t remember. It's a pity! Sleep is a builder, teacher and doctor human soul. In our dreams we “repair the roof” and restore Time. Dreams are excursions into the Past, which we transform into the Present and the Future.

The "movies" that people watch while they sleep are sometimes called virtual reality, a parallel world, entertainment for the brain, mini-death But the questions remain: where does consciousness get plots for dreams and why does it need these inventions? Moreover, if this is not just fiction, but something more? What other tasks are solved by the body during sleep, besides the obvious physical rest?

As it turns out, the simplest part of the answer is purely physiological. Experiments show that the need for sleep at this level is determined primarily by the higher part of the nervous system - the cortex cerebral hemispheres the brain, which controls all processes occurring in the body. Cortical cells get tired quite quickly. And inhibition acts as a means of self-defense, protecting them from exhaustion and destruction. nervous process, delaying their activities. When it spreads throughout the cerebral cortex, a state of sleep occurs. And during deep sleep, inhibition also descends on some underlying parts of the brain.

During seven to eight hours of sleep at night, the brain enters a state several times. deep sleep, each lasting between 30 and 90 minutes, with the ten to fifteen minute intervals between them called REM sleep episodes. By the end of the night, if the person is not disturbed, the duration slow sleep decreases, and the number of REM sleep episodes increases. Dreams during these episodes are accompanied by bursts of electrical impulses. This is where the actual anatomical details end. They don't tell us anything about the connection between dreams and reality.

The equation of dream and reality plays an important philosophical role in Taoism: life should be treated as a dream, but sleep should also be treated as reality.

Beautiful philosophical illustrations to the problem of the relationship between reality and dreams were invented by the founders of philosophical voluntarism, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) and Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900). The first called history a boring and incoherent dream of humanity, and the second considered sleep a rest from the cruel clarity of reality. Schopenhauer is the author of many vivid aphorisms that illustrate both his attitude towards dreams and his attitude towards life: “A dream is a piece of death that we occupy in advance, preserving and renewing with it the life that has been exhausted during the day” or “Life and dreams - pages of one book” , reading them in order means living, flipping through them at random means dreaming.” That is, daydreaming (and therefore imaginative thinking itself) is something like a waking dream, with open eyes.

Sigmund Freud (Sigismund Schlomo Freud, 1856–1939) not only began to view dreams as something directly related to the functioning of the brain during wakefulness, he suspected that dreams are some kind of encrypted messages from the subconscious to the conscious. However, the methods used by the father of psychoanalysis for such decoding seemed to many, and not without reason, to be completely arbitrary and worthy of little trust. It may seem that Carl Jung (Carl Gustav Jung, 1875-1961) went even further in the interpretation of dreams, but the role that he attributed to them is completely different. For him, sleep is not an individual, but a collective unconscious experience, that is, using the usual Marxist-Leninist dichotomy of the subjective and objective, a dream, subjective in Freud, turns out to be objective in Jung.

Psychedelic Hobbies late XIX centuries are reflected not only in the teachings of philosophers and psychologists. The meaning of images born in the imagination when consciousness is asleep has become increasingly interesting and ordinary people. The English writers of the sixties, Colin Wilson and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), called for stepping beyond the boundaries of everyday experience and plunging into the wrong game of hallucinations. And with the advent of Carlos Castaneda in literature, a new motive arose: this line can be made thin and insignificant. To do this, it is enough to first learn to carry some small objects from reality with you into your dreams - at least coins clenched in your fists. The whole point is simply to remember them in a dream, unclench your fists and look at the coins

In Buddhism, the question of true existence is resolved ambiguously, by many different ways. Thus, according to Satprem (Bernard Enginger, 19232007), Buddhism presupposes an endless ladder of mutually intersecting and simultaneously existing realities. This idea, surprisingly, finds quite unexpected support in modern physics. In one interpretation of the equations of quantum mechanics, proposed in 1956 by Hugh Everett III (1930–1982), quantum effects are explained by the presence of different layers of reality and interference between them. Its main idea can be formulated as follows: the present is determined not only by the past that really was, but also by the one that could have been. This means that the possible past is also, in a certain sense, real.

Everett expressed these ideas in his dissertation work, which was sharply negatively received by the physicists of his time. He went into military engineering and never studied physics again. However, the idea did not die: over time it was picked up and acquired many more modern variations. In one of them, proposed relatively recently by the Moscow physicist Mikhail Borisovich Mensky, true existence is the complete wave function of the Universe, in which there is no difference between what actually happened and what could have happened. This division is produced by consciousness. When consciousness sleeps, this distinction is erased. Psychology merges with physics, and dreams with reality.

The main problem of this virtual life, in his opinion, is its separation from the one that takes place consciously. He, like Castaneda forty years earlier, needs to learn not to forget, when falling asleep, what he wanted to do in a dream, and when waking up, not to forget what he dreamed. The proposed recipe is quite simple: you need to train your mind to ask yourself more often, “Is this really happening?” “The most surprising thing,” writes Zealand, “is that such a simple method works.” Sooner or later, a person will be able to “catch” the moment of sleep by asking a key question out of habit.

It is very important to learn not to forget about safety precautions. According to the author of “The Rustle of Morning Stars”, it also exists here: a dream is a journey of the soul in the space of options, and having felt unlimited freedom, the soul can lose caution and “fly to God knows where.” In case of “non-return”, death is stated in a dream.

Another adherent of the practice of lucid dreams, also a graduate of the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute Gennady Yakovlevich Troshchenko, considers the belief that you can do anything in a dream to be naive. A dream leaves an imprint on real life, because as a result of a person’s actions in the dream world, the physical and biochemical structure of his brain can change only in real life. Therefore, if we are to explore the Multiverse through lucid dreams, then do not forget about prudence and the possibility of waking up in a completely different reality from which the dream began.

This extreme “objectivist” point of view is not shared by everyone. Most psychologists are still inclined towards more traditional “subjectivist” theories. “I think that dreams are a movie for our consciousness,” explained British professor Jim Horne, who has been studying sleep for many years at the Loughborough Sleep Research Center, in his popular articles. They entertain our brains while we sleep.” He disputes any possibility of being cured in a dream or even receiving it in a dream. positive emotions: “Many of us believe that dreams are good for us. mental health, they help decide internal conflicts and in some way “heal the soul”. But no serious evidence can be given to support this attractive theory of Freud and others. In fact, dreams can even harm a person. For example, depressed people tend to see sad and scary dreams, which can only worsen the sufferer’s condition the next day.” So it’s better not to dream at all, or at least, try to forget them as quickly as possible.

Of course, anyone can object that sometimes people do things in their sleep. important discoveries, something like insight descends on them. Thus, Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev (18341907) saw his periodic table, and the German chemist Friedrich Kekule, having seen in a dream a snake biting its own tail, guessed the cyclic structure of the benzene molecule. And it’s impossible to count all the composers who saw this or that work of theirs in a dream, which all that remained was to be written down on paper when they woke up. But even in this case, Jim Horn and his associates have an objection: it is almost impossible to verify all these stories. Moreover, all of the listed heroes recalled a dream they had in their youth, already being very old people.

Needless to say: the prospect of building your own City of the Sun, visiting different parts of the world or living through the most varied, even unimaginable, situations without leaving the confines of your own bed is very tempting. Almost every person has managed to feel “controllable” at least once in their life. own sleep(or maybe this is just an illusion?), but you usually only hear about the fact that this process is “put on stream” from the authors of books and methods. In the meantime, there is a debate among philosophers and ordinary people about whether it is possible to fly in a dream and how often, others are trying to derive practical benefits from dreams.

In my opinion, one of the main tricks of psychological counseling is to see the client's problem as a type of dream- caused by confusion, which a third-party specialist helps to dispel. In this sense, the work of an intelligent psychologist is such an activity that “enlightens” the mind. It, by reducing the dope of illusions, sobers up, or in another sense, awakens from psychic sleep. I already started talking about what kind of dream this is in, and today I continue to reveal the topic from a slightly different angle. If your mind is confused by doubts about the real, you can perceive everything described below as an allegory.

Have you ever thought about the criteria of the real? What exactly distinguishes reality from illusion? How does reality become real in our eyes?

We can say that the reality of a dream is illusory because it is not what it seems. Unsteady and unstable, it seems to fool us, pretending to be the solid reality of the day, encouraging us to take a serious attitude with the entire arsenal of “adult” emotions, as long as we believe in it. In sleep, we confuse the reality of the physical world with the fragile picture of a dream.

And yet, while we sleep, the reality of the dream does not arouse suspicion; its image absorbs as all-encompassingly as the images of everyday life. And only upon awakening, the darkness dissipates - and all the problems that arose in the dream go away with it. But as long as the dream lasts, it seems real and is taken seriously.

The point that I want to emphasize here is the dreamer’s deep confidence in what is happening. Being in a dream, he seems to “know” that he is in real world. And here we have to admit that all his solid knowledge is nothing more than strong faith.

At night we believe in the reality of dreams, during the day - in the reality of everyday life. And this faith is essentially identical. We simply take what is happening for granted, as if everything is a priori clear with this world. Neither at night nor during the day do we have any questions about reality. Right up to awakening there is a similar drama and intensity of passions. One remains uncritically and selflessly absorbed in dreams.

That is, we “know” that the reality of the day is real in exactly the same way as we “know” that the reality of a dream is real while it is being dreamed. We have no objective criteria for what is “real.” We simply believe in this world. Deeply, unconsciously, with conviction. And we call our strong faith knowledge.

About ropes and snakes

In fact, sleep differs from everyday life only in its instability. Dreams are temporary. But our life in the context of cosmic time frames is no more stable. Everything we know will pass. And if the stability of the world speaks of its authenticity, then our world is real to the same relative extent as the world of dreams.

I already voiced this idea on the site in an article about: “You can confidently “know” anything. But this belief itself has a mental structure. We really don’t know anything, because our confidence in anything is only a strong, unconditional faith.”

I often give my clients a well-known analogy, where a person sees a rope, mistakes it for a snake and experiences genuine fear. He “knows” as firmly as he can what is in front of him deadly danger. She is real to him.

The role of the psychologist is precisely to remove the client from his restless dreams awaken. This task is not easy because most dreams are shown to us in the “cinema” of the unconscious, from where only a certain background mood, some vague pain for oneself and one’s life, “echoes” to the surface of consciousness.

And here almost everything comes down to being able to see the root of the problem. If you have experience in exploring personal mental depths and are sensitive enough to listen to your own gut, you can be your own psychologist. In a sense, this is tantamount to becoming the object of your own research.

To focus attention on the source of experiences, questions such as “What am I feeling now?”, “What am I thinking about?”, “What do I now “know” about my life) may be appropriate? Projections dissipate with their direct awareness, and reality is freed from the drama with which it was covered by dreams inspired by the mind.

Where are all these “real” events?

Examples of dispersion psychic dreams there is plenty in everyone's life. In such a dream-inspired “reality,” separations become the end of the world, or an empty, meaningless future. Someone else's death is mistaken for one's own. Behind someone's uninvolved calm one dreams of cold, treacherous indifference. Small victories bring dreams of your own greatness. The fleeting encourages one to believe in hallucinations of personal inferiority. Etc.

In this vein, our entire everyday life is still the same illusion, because, like a dream, it is not what it seems. We mistake the chimeras of our mind for real events. We can make a reservation and say that only our attitude towards life is illusory, and life itself is real. But the fact is that we do not know life beyond our own relationship to it.

Upon awakening, we realize that the dream is an illusion, because we brought it to ourselves. What is different about everyday life? Where are all these “real” events? Here and now in this currently all our confidence in the events of current reality is still the same dreams. We sleep in reality and we dream about our lives - we dream about events, relationships, we dream about ourselves.

No one is obliged to expose life, as Buddhist monks and yogi hermits do, up to the stage of enlightenment. Everyone is free to choose the intensity of practice independently. Some people are destined to rush ahead of the locomotive, while others find it easier to “not bother” at all. But, as I see it, the current stage of elaboration for everyone is those very everyday events and experiences that are perceived as problematic.

And even a thousand sobering reliefs from hacked illusions are not enough for most of us to feel this glaring instability of personal conviction about what is real and what is not. We just change one dream for another - in best case scenario more or less realistic. Somehow this is how the “local” earthly path of spiritual maturation apparently runs. From childhood illusions we move to sophisticated ones, and then to “lucid dreams.”

A lucid dream (LD) is a special altered state of consciousness, which is radically different from ordinary sleep. In a lucid dream, the reality and clarity of perception of the surrounding space is not inferior to the objective one, and sometimes even seems even brighter than in the physical world. At the same time, the sleeper remembers that he is sleeping.

Remembering or entering the OS from an ordinary dream feels like passing through a pipe: as if something is being sucked into another, parallel world. This world is impermanent and changeable, unlike the earthly world, and therefore awareness can be maintained here only with full concentration of attention.

Attention management and lucid dreaming practice

Lack of concentration turns OS into normal sleep, therefore, many dreaming techniques are aimed at developing the ability to control one’s attention: through contemplation of objects or stopping internal dialogue. These techniques develop the habit of bringing yourself back to your goal, which increases awareness, which works both in reality and in dreams. One of the methods of entering a lucid dream is to develop the habit of checking reality for authenticity, asking yourself the question “am I dreaming?” or returning oneself to the state of presence - “I am.” This habit increases the chances of remembering yourself in a dream and going into the OS.

Concentration in a lucid dream: capturing reality

Fixing attention on the hands is one of the effective methods, used by practitioners to maintain their attention in a lucid dream. After all, logging into the OS is only the first step. And it is also important to be able to not fall back into sleep immediately after entering. For these purposes, touching dream objects or examining them in detail will help.

Concentrating on the objects of a lucid dream helps maintain the relative stability of the dream reality, preventing it from constantly floating. The surrounding space in a lucid dream is held by consciousness, but it can also be a clue to which consciousness holds on, maintaining its awareness. Although, in the second case, hands are still a more universal object for fixation, because they are always with us. However, in OS it can also happen that there are no objects for fixing attention, although these are isolated cases.

From personal experience

One day I seemed to be in a very unusual lucid dream. Everything around was absolutely white. At first my consciousness decided that the space around was limited by white walls, but when I tried to feel for at least some solid foundation, it turned out that there was none: there were no walls, no floor, not even my own body.

If we draw parallels with the esoteric systems of the hierarchy of the cosmos, we can assume that I found myself at the zero point of Alva, which the ancients called the ultimate depth of the universe. There are no divisions or manifestations in this world. The walls, originally outlined by my consciousness, were probably the product of a mind that was not immediately able to accept such unusual condition. In that reality, the only thing I could cling to to maintain awareness was just the memory of my existence “I am,” because no other objects to fixate on simply existed there. Having mastered this state, for practice lucid dreams Fixation on visual objects will no longer be necessary, which significantly expands the horizons of possible experience.

Scientific view

The phenomenon of lucid dreams has been scientifically confirmed experimentally. During the experiment, dreamers were able to prove their awareness in a dream by transmitting a signal with a certain eye movement. At the same time, it turned out that entering OS is most likely during the rapid phase of sleep, lasting from 5 to 15 minutes. This stage is on the threshold of wakefulness, and it is during this period that a person dreams.

The rapid phase of sleep occurs approximately 90 minutes after falling asleep, after the main and longest phase of slow sleep has passed. The phase of slow or deep sleep is associated with restoration processes. During this phase, all processes in the body slow down, muscle activity, breathing and heart rate decrease.

Per night human body goes through several such sleep cycles - from slow to fast sleep. And with each new repetition, the duration of the slow-wave sleep phase becomes shorter, and the REM sleep phase, accordingly, becomes longer.

Severe energy depletion can lead to complete exclusion from the REM sleep cycle, because key point in the practice of lucid dreaming is to ensure good rest. Lack of sleep and chronic fatigue sharply reduce not only the possibility of entering the OS, but also the likelihood of seeing and remembering even unconscious dreams.

Lucid dreaming techniques

In fact, dreams visit us at threshold states of consciousness - the period of falling asleep or waking up. Based on this, there are two options for entering the OS:

Technique for directly entering a lucid dream

This option is most suitable for daytime practices. Sleep in the middle of the day, as a rule, is superficial and light, at the level of drowsiness, without immersion in deep phase, which makes direct exit to the OS more likely.

This technique of directly entering a lucid dream involves preserving the memory of the presence of your consciousness while maintaining complete stillness of the body. In this method, the main problem is precisely maintaining stillness, since the brain, checking consciousness for shutdown, can send various impulses to the body. You may suddenly feel a tingling, itching somewhere or a desire to change position. However, it turns out that the brain can be deceived: stopping the internal dialogue and physical movements leads to sleep within approximately 15 minutes.

This method is also used in morning practice, when the body has already managed to fully recover during the night, but has not yet fully awakened. This method will help with a short sound signal set at a certain time, earlier than the usual wake-up time. The most favorable time is considered to be starting from 5 am.

A short sound signal for consciousness will be enough to bring it out of unconscious sleep, but not enough for it to move into full wakefulness. Thus, you will find yourself in that very threshold state, which some practitioners call a phase. Next, your task will remain to maintain awareness of your stay in the OS, which will be helped by the concentration practices suggested at the beginning of the article.

Technique for exiting into the OS from normal sleep

This technique of lucid dreaming involves remembering yourself directly in a dream. To do this, it is recommended that you perform a reality check from time to time while you are awake.

Reality check examples:

• Time check. If you look at the clock in a dream, look away, and look again, the time will be different. The same goes for inscriptions;
• Try flying, walking through a wall, or plunging your hand into a solid object. True, sometimes even in a dream this turns out to be impossible;
• Look at your hands. In the dream, the lines on the hands will be different;
• Thoughts about the past. Think about where you were before you got here or try to remember yesterday;
• Count your fingers. In a dream, their number may be more or less than ten;
• Try breathing with your nose closed;
• Reach for the ceiling;

There are still a whole host of options for testing reality for objectivity. You can use accessories: for example, wear a ring or bracelet without removing it, checking it tactilely or visually from time to time. You can set yourself sound signals for the period of sleep and wakefulness, associate awareness of yourself here and now with some action: for example, passing through doorways, or with checking Email, or reading SMS. For better effect worth using different methods, it’s even better to create your own.

An alternative technique for inducing lucid dreaming

Another, alternative technique for indirectly entering OS is setting an intention before falling asleep. Conventionally, this can be tied to the phrase “this night I will have a lucid dream.” However, the main point here is not in the words, but in the strong-willed message that is embedded in them. After the message has been formed, you should turn off the internal dialogue and fall asleep. Get rid of obsessive thoughts A preliminary recapitulation of the day and focusing your attention before going to bed, for example, on the heart chakra or on a pleasant image that you would like to meet during your upcoming dream practice will help.

My name is Anton, I'm 21 years old. Actually, I have little problem with dreams:
Every night (and Lately I started to have trouble sleeping, I can wake up in the middle of the night and if you look around me, in the dark, everything is foggy - not black, but transparent white) I have dreams, I didn’t really bother with this before, but now last weeks they have a very serious impact on my condition, both physical and moral.
The fact is that these dreams are very realistic... In fact, nothing happened in my life that could upset my psyche. I don’t like horror films and I don’t watch them; healthy image In my life, I don’t use nicotine or alcohol. And one more point that I want to immediately mention: a dream, as a rule, has nothing to do with events in life (similar situations from the past, for example), can last more than one day (next time there will be absolutely the same environment and events in the dream will follow the events in the previous one).
I feel kind of scared, but I can’t go anywhere personally, because they’ll think I’m crazy and prescribe some useless drugs..
So, in dreams I don’t just see, I feel, I used to think it was wonderful to be able to use a dream, to be able to realize everything in it, it’s not ghostly, it’s literal, built no worse than real life (more than one scene , but a complete environment). Lately, after sleep, I feel terrible devastation, the dream is so absorbed into my consciousness that the awareness that this is a dream is completely absent.
And in dreams nothing supernatural happens, everything is ordinary. And in addition to the devastation of the inner, I am weakening physically, as if everything that I do in a dream is reflected in the body, and if there were physical exercise- I have muscle pain, like after playing sports, and it’s hard for me to do anything, sometimes even leave the house..
How can this be explained and what is it connected with? You will probably definitely think I’m crazy, but since this is the Internet, it’s no longer scary here - besides the devastation and physical weakness - I can absolutely recreate everything that happened in the dream. If in a dream I was able to do something that didn’t work out in life (once there was a moment when in a dream I called a friend with whom I had quarreled and started a dialogue, after the dream I called him, because morally it was very difficult for me to ignore this scene, I I remembered everything and started the conversation in the same way, we made up in the same way, and he conducted the conversation almost the same way, not without exceptions, because the dream was mine), and this is very frightening, like everything described above in general. It’s scary not just because I’m afraid to realize this, but because I have no reason for such paradoxes, okay, this can happen to drug addicts or alcoholics (if it can), but to healthy person who is happy with life in principle and does not have any grudge against something or someone inside him - this is really not clear.
I apologize in advance for the poor text correction, I was confused.