1) One of MengMeng's contributions to creative thinking is that he can deal with the problems he faces and provide solutions. In dreams, people exclude external interference, are not bound by logic and various prejudices, have rich imagination, are particularly active in the subconscious, and are more likely to generate inspiration. The chemists, musicians and poets mentioned above are all examples of innovation in dreams. In addition, there are people who dream of painting. In the Five Dynasties, the monks who observed the repair were famous for painting arhats. The arhat he painted is different, with thick eyebrows, long ears and long nose. Asked where he got this expression, Guan Xiu said, "I saw it in my dream. Every time you draw a statue, you must pray that the dream will be true before you start writing. " People call the arhats he painted "arhats who should dream". There are also people who dream of dancing. Ulanova, a famous ballet dancer, often practices new dances in her dreams. She is quite complacent about this: "I dance new dances and rehearse new programs in my dreams, which is natural for ballerinas who have been engaged in ballet all their lives."
2) Dreams that regulate emotions need to be balanced from time to time. Just as physical activities need to be balanced, people's spiritual activities also need to be balanced and self-regulated. Dreams can play a balancing role in the extreme aspects of human spirit. People really need some relief in a stressful life, and the dream world provides this possibility. Literary masterpieces such as A Dream of Red Mansions, The Peony Pavilion and Dream of a Spring Girl all have examples of seeking spiritual sustenance through dreams. There is a joke that shows people's reluctance to dream. Feng Menglong's novel records the dream of a good drinker, saying that Li Kaixian (a native of Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, a scholar of Jiajing Dynasty, director of the official department, and his works include Sword, etc. ) There is good wine in my dream, and I don't drink it until I wake up. Li Kaixian wrote a poem to describe this dream: "In my dream, there was a guest of Kei Megumi wine, and I was told to take it to the fire to have a taste. Suddenly, I heard the cock crow and smelled the wine in my nose. " Feng Menglong added a note at the back of the poem, saying that Li Kaixian regretted it after waking up and said, "I hate eating cold food!" " Li Kai clearly knew that it was just a dream, but he was still dreaming seriously, blaming himself for not being flexible at that time and trying the ice wine first.
3) The MengMeng of physiological reaction is closely related to physiological needs, and "dreaming of marrying a wife" is often said to be a reflection of physiological needs. In addition, pathology can also be reflected in dreams. According to doctors, patients with hypertension often dream of climbing mountains and flying, and patients with tuberculosis often dream of walking fatigue. If a disease lurks in the human body, the information transmitted to the cerebral cortex at first is very weak. There are many activities during the day, and when the cerebral cortex receives strong external stimuli, it will cover up the weak signals of the disease and appear in dreams. There is a story that happened in the Qing Dynasty: someone dreamed that a monk praised his good hair and asked him for a braid. He agreed when he was proud. Who knows that a month later, his hair actually fell from the root. This story shows that when he was dreaming, his hair had changed slightly. This weak signal made up the monk's dream of borrowing braids.
As for sleepwalking, it should not be considered as a physiological reflection. Sleepwalking is a strange phenomenon, but it still has the basic feature of dreams-unconsciousness. Sleepwalking is an unconscious action, and it is impossible to realize how dangerous the surrounding environment is. Sleepwalkers don't know anything about the movement process after waking up. The possible explanation for the mechanism of sleepwalking is that some cells in the brain are still excited when people are asleep, which is the reason for the formation of dreams mentioned above. If it involves excited speech cell groups, there will be talk in a dream. If it involves an excited group of motor cells, sleepwalking will occur.
2. Meaningless Dreams Ancient people regarded dreams as sacred things, and mysterious dreams as gods' dreams as something more important than reality. The Shang and Zhou emperors always asked good or bad luck in their dreams. This superstition of dreams has been affecting the whole feudal era, and the harm is quite long. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Emperor Song Ming occasionally dreamed that the satrap Liu Kui rebelled. The awakened emperor immediately put the satrap to death, and the unlucky satrap died at the last minute, not knowing where he was wrong.
Western psychologists get rid of the superstitious color hanging over dreams and attribute dreams to the reflection of real life. The material of dreams comes from the spiritual life based on reality. No matter how strange a dream looks, it always looks for material from the external world we observe or existing thoughts. In other words, dreams must come from what people have experienced. After clarifying the scientific source of dreams, western psychologists have also fallen into some confusion. They think that dreams are always meaningful, but people can't understand its true meaning on the surface. Some people go to a psychologist for consultation with dreams that they don't understand. Masters can always get to the bottom of it and connect your dreams with your life experience, situation and life, which is as far-fetched as fortune-telling. This kind of dream interpretation is very common in books about dreams published today. We should clearly distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of western psychologists in the study of dreams, and we can't accept them all.
It can be considered that many dreams are meaningless. This truth can be clarified by the subconscious mind. Because the subconscious mind is very active in dreams, a large number of subconscious minds weave various stories in dreams. Remember, the subconscious is chaotic. Some subconsciousness is just what dream thinking needs, so it becomes a valuable "inspiration" to supplement thinking. There are also some subconscious minds that are contrary to the ongoing dream thinking, but their appearance destroys the ongoing thinking, so there will be incomprehensible strangeness in dreams, which makes people feel uneasy. There are more subconscious minds that have nothing to do with the ongoing dream thinking and cannot be connected to make up a story. Why do we dream a lot but remember very little is because the messy combination of the subconscious mind is meaningless. From this perspective, most people's dreams are meaningless. If you encounter inexplicable scenes in your dreams, you don't have to be depressed or afraid.