Cognitive psychology research shows that when people sleep, the cerebral cortex does not fall into a dormant state, but remains active.
It will process and reorganize the information we receive during the day and present it in various ways, which is our dream.
Freud, a psychoanalytic psychologist, believes that dreams are the reflection of people's subconscious mind and the satisfaction of desire. Our desires or thoughts hidden in our hearts during the day will be revealed through dreams.
Each of us will have our own unforgettable dreams, but the general content will be similar, such as dreaming about the death of relatives, dreaming about exams, and dreaming about losing teeth.
In our understanding, special dreams usually have special meanings and hints, so what are the meanings of these common dreams?
Dreaming about the exam means that you are in a state of anxiety for a long time.
This kind of dream usually has three situations.
The first is that you failed the exam, which implies that you have been in inner anxiety.
Before the exam, we will make intensive preparations, and a lot of knowledge points will be put into our minds. We hope to remember all the knowledge points in a short time, which will increase the burden on the brain and feel more stress stimulation.
In review, our worries about whether we can pass the exam and our nervousness about the exam will remain in our subconscious.
When you take on too much load during the day, your brain will show up in your dreams at night. For example, dreaming that the test paper can't be done and hasn't been finished within the specified time is the performance of cognitive deviation and psychological suggestion.
The second is to dream of passing the exam, which is consistent with Freud's view that dreams are the satisfaction of desire. We all hope to get in. This desire is so strong that it even becomes a voice in our hearts, which is reflected in our dreams.
The third situation is an accident during the exam.
For example, you can't find a class in the exam, you have already started the exam without a pen and an admission ticket, or the test paper is damaged. This reflects our inner nervousness about the arrival of the exam, our great concern about the potential crisis and our great fear.
And if an accident happens in the real exam, which affects our grades, we will attribute the final result to external factors, which is a manifestation of our fear of exam pressure and avoidance of accepting the fact of failure.
Dream of losing a tooth, suggesting separation.
When we were young, we all had interesting experiences of changing our teeth. Tooth changing is a normal physiological phenomenon, but when we were young, we were always concerned and afraid because of the lack of common sense in life.
In psychoanalysis, teeth are an aggressive hint.
In the human body, the hardest part is the tooth. Losing the tooth may be a hint of losing the attack power, which means that we have restrained ourselves and become gentle.
This may be influenced by our own surroundings.
When people arrive in a new and unfamiliar environment, in order to get along well with others and show their excellent side, we will be gentle, because a less aggressive way of getting along will make people feel comfortable and make more people willing to associate with you.
Dreaming of tooth loss may also be a sign of increased anxiety in our hearts. Teeth leaving gums is a sign of separation. Probably in real life, we are experiencing separation, such as breaking up and leaving home to go to school in different places.
Having such dreams also implies that we have problems to solve.
Separation can make people feel insecure and anxious. It is these emotions that urge us to realize the problems that need to be solved and deal with them quickly.
Dreaming of dead relatives
The deceased relatives bear many complicated emotions in our memory. When our relatives were alive, we had close feelings and close ties with them.
When the other person disappears into our world forever, we can only miss each other through past memories, and we will inevitably feel lonely and sad inside. This kind of emotion will remain in our subconscious and will not be easily displayed to others.
When we encounter elements related to relatives in real life, our subconscious mind will be stimulated, its memory and reaction will be faster than that of the brain, and it will be presented in our sleep.
The relatives who died in the dream are our emotional gatherings.
Relatives are the carrier for our hearts to find a sense of belonging. By talking with our relatives, we can feel warmth and security.
When we encounter anxiety and injustice in life, we will yearn for a sense of security in our hearts, and the information received by our subconscious will be presented in our dreams, which is also a manifestation of satisfying our wishes.
When the family encounters irreconcilable crisis, we will choose to ask for help from our relatives. As the head of the family, the elderly have the experience and wisdom that we lack, and can unite the family well and let relatives trust and rely on each other.
From a psychological point of view, dreams are illusory expressions of inner thoughts.
In dreams, we experience the satisfaction of our wishes, which can eliminate the psychological stimulation that interferes with sleep.
The original materials of dreams are low-level, single and distorted by different phenomena.
In the dream, perhaps a tiny detail is the embodiment of our long-standing psychological problems, and those details that move us deserve our consideration. It is a hint to our subconscious thinking, which may have no deep meaning.
Generally speaking, not all dreams can be completely interpreted according to their own situation.
Elements with symbolic and suggestive functions in dreams usually make you remember deeply. When you encounter such a dream, you can properly interpret and reflect on yourself.