How we fall asleep
At night the human body experiences 5-6 cycles of sleep, each of them consists of several phases. When a person falls asleep, he is in the first - the transition from wakefulness to sleep, drowsiness. Consciousness gradually fades, you can see snatches of daytime impressions. In the second phase, muscle relaxation begins and the person falls asleep. Insomnia is a state where we are stuck in a slumber phase and can not really fall asleep. The second phase stalled, and the problem is that the body is not relaxed. It seems that the thoughts are swarming in my head. But it's not in them, but in the tension that they create. The second phase is very important for a full sleep, it takes more than half of its time.
Remember everything is impossible
The third and fourth are the quietest stages - a deep sleep: during this period the body is completely relaxed and resting. If you watch the sleeper, you will see almost no movement. And, at last, the fifth phase gives us a rich dream world. Frequent eye movements are noted, which is why it is called the phase of fast sleep. At this time the activity of the brain is the highest: the accumulation of information is being processed. This phase lasts from 5 to 40 minutes: the closer to the morning, the longer the period of rapid sleep. Night cycles are repeated every half hour, and during the night we see 5-6 dreams, but we remember, as a rule, the last 1-2.
What are the dreams made of?
Sleep develops on the basis of the experiences of the next few days. Something hurt you for living things, you might not have noticed it, but the psyche has picked up an exciting topic. These images have settled on the border of consciousness and subconsciousness. Here are accumulated actual experiences, thoughts, impressions that have not yet forgotten. The largest repository is our personal unconscious, deeper layer of the psyche. This is a kind of house book, in which there are records of every event in life, all joys and sorrows, desires and thoughts, traumas and complexes - from birth until today. As a rule, this is information that we either forgot or do not realize. Recent impressions cling to the past and connect with them in one dream story.
Collective image
The dream is created, like a rebus: elements are superimposed on each other, a collective image is being built, the minor details become the main ones. Such conspiracy is connected with the fact that the psyche seeks to protect the person from traumatic episodes of life and provides all information in the form of symbols and riddles. Overnight you can see several different dreams, with a variety of characters and stories. Nevertheless, all these pictures reflect the same theme, presenting it from different angles, and the same dramatic knot lies at the heart.
The first counselor of the emperors
It was not just a dream book: whole churches were built for the gods of sleep. The emperors made decisions based on the dream book.