Around dreams we ask ourselves many questions and it is not strange, since the dream world still keeps many unknowns. Generally, we wonder why we dream, why sometimes we have nightmares and other times happy dreams and, especially, we wonder about the meaning of our dreams. But we still have another issue to clarify and it is the place of the brain where dreams originate. Do you want to know how and where a dream is manufactured? In the Female Diario we tell you.
It is clear that dreams originate in the brain, which are mental products but is there a specific place of the brain where they are created? There is and is the hippocampus. This is the place where a dream originates and does so at a given time, during the ReM phase. The hippocampus is also the place where memories are formed, although so that they remain in our memory they have to move on to neocortex.
What happens when we sleep? That this synchronization between the hippocampus and the neocortex does not occur so easily because we are not aware, so sometimes we cannot remember what we dream of, because they have not reached the neocortex. And memories have a lot to do in the process of manufacturing a dream, since they are the materials of which dreams are formed.
Indeed, it seems that our dreams are recent memories, although most of the time we cannot relate what we dream of an experience. This occurs because our brain transforms those real memories by associating them with concepts and symbols. It is a complex process in which imagination and creativity take the reins, hence sometimes they surprise us and we cannot find any apparent relationship with our reality.
We continue to pull the thread with which our dreams are woven and we have to clarify that we deactivate when sleeping to obtain that rest that is the real goal when we sleep. They are also less active, as if they were asleep, the frontal lobes of the brain, which are the ones that deal with reasoning. This would explain those surreal or meaningless dreams to which we cannot find any logic.
But if we are little active when we fall asleep and the frontal lobes too, the same does not happen to the limbic system, which is the one that regulates emotions. If you follow our Dream Dictionary, surely you know that most dreams are not premonitory, but that their meaning and their interpretation are based on our emotions. Surely you already know that everything we dream responds to a specific emotional state.
This is concluded by the doctoral thesis of Carlos Calvo Gómez (approximation to the meaning of dreams) for the Complutense University of Madrid: “During the vigil the cognitive aspects predominate while in dreams the affectionate-emotive situations predominate. It is true that sometimes in dreams there is also creation, new combinatorial, (there are some famous historical examples of scientific and artistic creativity) species of osmosis between the posterior area of the brain (emotional) and the anterior (creative) “.
Therefore, emotions also participate in the dream factory of our brain. To our misfortune, the amygdala, who is responsible for anxiety and fear, remains very awake when we sleep and that is why he throws scary images, nightmares or dreamlike experiences that we can suffer as if we were awake.
Our dream factory has a lot of staff and we are the directors, although we have lost command because we are asleep. Memories work in this factory, so makeup that we can barely recognize them. Recent and childhood experiences also work, sometimes in the form of traumas or fears.
In the emotions section they work with fear, concerns and anxiety and create fabulous nightmares from which we find it hard to recover. Luckily, joy, happiness and, especially, illusions, which are actually the ones that maintain this standing dream factory, also make extra hours.
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