I dreamed that a fortune teller said that husband and wife could not divorce.

Dream, English dream, also means dream. The ancients believed that there was always a reason for dreaming. Wang Fu once said: "Many people have gained something and done nothing when their husband dreamed of something strange." He thinks there is always a reason to dream. There are three main reasons for dreaming: physical factors, physiological factors and psychological factors. Dream belongs to the category of soul medicine, which is stimulated by internal and external messengers, causing a small number of nerve cell activities in the brain, which is manifested as the lowest level of consciousness of higher souls. Of course, it also follows the three laws of biological soul, but there is no clear perception and it cannot be controlled. Dream is an unconscious virtual consciousness.

Dream career

One of the reasons for dreams

The cause of dreams-dreams are inextricably linked with people's social environment, psychological factors and physical condition. Qian Zhongshu elaborated China's ancient dream interpretation theory in Liezi Zhang Zhan Zhou Muwang's Annotation, and proposed that dreams may be formed by thinking or by cause. Dreaming, the so-called "body-qi dream", becomes a dream because the feelings in the body are touched.

The second reason of the dream

There is another saying: during the day, in our left and right brains, the left brain is in charge of reason, while the right brain is quite imaginative and creative. When we sleep, especially when we sleep lightly, the right brain will still work, but without the rational control of the left brain, many strange things will be born, which is not in line with normal logic. This is also one of the reasons for the formation of strange dreams.

Information movement principle

All kinds of information stored in the brain are like many small pieces of paper on the ground. If these small pieces of paper coexist with some big forces, they will inevitably move; When people sleep, all kinds of emotions and other energy in the brain do not disappear (mainly to detect external dangers), which will naturally drive the information in the brain; And a lot of information in the brain is interrelated, so it is like a chain. When you lift one end, the other end will also be lifted, which produces dreams of various situations.

Trigger end principle

There are different triggers to trigger brain energy operation; Mainly divided into: external trigger and internal trigger.

(1) External trigger: mainly during sleep, the body feels all kinds of external information, thus triggering people to dream about relevant information.

For example, when the bed is hot, we are more likely to dream of "fire" or various "heat sources"; When there is a slight alarm bell nearby, we often dream of "fire truck", "ambulance" or "police car". When someone nearby plays the cry of "help", we are more likely to dream of "running for our lives"; All of them will dream of "fire" and will soon be awakened by nightmares, thus avoiding all kinds of "disasters".

(2) Intrinsic triggers: including physical illness or comfort, and psychological daily thinking, feelings, preferences, etc.

For example, when people have various diseases, they often have nightmares and dreams caused by various physiological factors; It is easy for people to have some related dreams when they are emotional or keep thinking before going to bed. The so-called "thinking day and night"; In many cases, these dreams are related to your daily preferences. The so-called "benevolent dreams of pines, cypresses, peaches and plums, benevolent dreams of swords and soldiers, generous dreams of baskets of beans, wise dreams of rivers and lakes, and good believers dreams of mountains and rivers and Yuan Ye".

Principle of consciousness

In fact, in dreams, people are conscious and can make some logical thinking and judgment (because it can better avoid danger).

For example, when we dream that our teeth have fallen out, you will repeatedly think about what to do after the teeth have fallen out, which shows that we still have "consciousness" and can do all kinds of "thinking" when dreaming; Finally, some people often find themselves dreaming in these thoughts and then waking up.

Physical factors

Physical Factors Ancient thinkers in China realized that human dreams were partly created by physical stimuli inside and outside themselves. Physical stimulation from the body, such as dreams caused by too much or not enough food in the abdomen. The so-called "full dream, hungry dream" or "full dream, hungry dream". There are external physical stimuli. For example, people dream of snakes when they sleep, and birds dream of flying when they catch their hair; When they are cold, they dream of water; When they are hot, they dream of fire; When they dream of water, they dream of fire; When snakes bother me, I also tie them up, and the impact of thunder seems to drum into my ears. In the classification of dreams, "feeling dreams" (dreams caused by feeling wind, rain, cold and heat) and "time dreams" (dreams caused by seasonal changes) belong to dreams caused by external physical stimuli. Professor Zhang Yaoxiang, a famous modern psychologist in China, once commented: "Realizing that physical stimulation is the cause of dreams has broken countless superstitions about dreams.

Physiological factors

The process of dreaming is the residual memory of biological nervous system in the process of entering or exiting dormancy, which is a complex biological nervous system and naturally controls the sleep activities of biological individuals. Or because of different age groups, different sexes and different hormone levels, there are residual dream memories of sexual activities; Or because the residue of cell metabolism level in a certain part of the body is extremely tired or loosely accumulated, the nervous system feels different; Or because of the different feelings of environmental noise, noise light, temperature change and bed vibration during sleep, the memory residue of nervous system is also different; Most people have dreams and forget them. It is a natural physiological activity, and the dream itself has no meaning.

Ancient thinkers in China realized that dreaming may also be caused by physiological factors. There are four physiological factors involved by ancient scholars in China:

(1) Deficiency of Yin and Yang in the body. As mentioned above, dreams are an unstable state in sleep. Sleeping restlessly is often caused by insufficient or excessive yin and yang in the body. Ancient thinkers and medical scientists in China believed that the lack of certain "Qi" during sleep made sleep unstable, which led to dreams. Huangdi Neijing holds that it is the lack of qi that makes people dream. Ancient thinkers and medical scientists in China also believed that the excess of Yin and Yang during sleep could also make people dream. Huangdi Neijing also thinks: "When yin is abundant, the dream fears the flood; when yang is abundant, the dream burns; when both yin and yang are abundant, they kill each other;" If you are rich, you will dream of flying. If you are not prosperous, you will dream. " This view in Huangdi Neijing was widely inherited by later thinkers. For example, there is a similar saying in Liezi: "Therefore, if the yin is strong, the dream will fear the flood; When the yang is strong, there is a fire burning in the dream; If yin and yang are strong, they will dream and kill. " Xiong Bolong, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, believed that women's dreams during pregnancy were related to giving birth to boys or girls: "When giving birth to boys, the yang is strong and the intestines are hot, so the dreams are solid; The daughter is full of yin and the yin is full of cold intestines, so the dream is soft. "

(2) Excessive qi of the five internal organs. In ancient China, thinkers and physicians believed that excessive qi in the five internal organs was also a physiological factor that caused dreams. The so-called "excess of liver qi leads to anger in dreams, excess of lung qi leads to fear of crying and flying in dreams, excess of heart qi leads to fear of dreams, excess of temper leads to happiness in dreams, and excess of kidney qi leads to two solutions in dreams." The above two factors had considerable influence and authority in ancient times. We believe that if these two factors contribute to the discussion or analysis of the causes of dreams, this contribution is that they have made a tentative discussion on the physiological mechanism of dreams and given some enlightenment to future generations. However, this discussion only stays in the stage of subjective speculation and lacks scientific basis, so these theories that have had a great influence in history lose their significance with the development of modern science.

(3) Visceral sensation leads to dreams. For example, Cheng said, "When you dream, you can not only smell your thoughts, but also feel your internal organs." They think that dreams are caused by "visceral feelings" or "inner feelings". Thirsty people dream of water and hungry people dream of food, which proves that inner feelings can lead to dreams.

(4) Too much qi and blood leads to more dreams. Closely related to the above viewpoints, there was another viewpoint in ancient China that dreams were caused by excess of qi and blood in the body. For example, Wang Fuzhi thinks: "Dream when you are prosperous, and stop dreaming when you are in decline; Dream or not, but don't move with time; Blood gas drops, and the region is not rich. However, the dreamer is born of blood, not temperament. " He also said: "shape, the feeling of blood and gas is also." Dreamer, the spirit of flesh and blood. "

I think the subjective speculation of this view is more important than the above three views, and there is no scientific basis. If we want to be sure, we can only say that it has contributed to adhering to the monism of physical materialism and treating dreams as the product of physiological activities.

(5) Disease causes dreams. Ancient thinkers and medical scientists in China generally believed that physical illness was one of the reasons why people dreamed. As mentioned earlier, Wang Fu's "Meng Han due to yin disease, dreaminess due to yang disease, dreaminess due to internal diseases and dreaminess due to external diseases" is. The most typical and detailed exposition of dreams caused by diseases is Sui Fang's Treatise on the Sources of Diseases. He said: "people who are exhausted by their husbands are weak in qi and blood, weak in viscera and vulnerable to evil injuries." Good and evil come from outside, but they don't precipitate. On the contrary, it is too dirty to settle down. They walked with Wei Rong, but they flew with the soul, which made people restless and dreamy. " In modern science, dreams caused by diseases have sufficient scientific basis. As can be seen from the above, among the above physiological factors, the disease-induced dream is the easiest to "test", so its reliability is the greatest.

psychologic factor

Ancient thinkers and physicians in China not only realized that physical factors and physiological factors can lead to dreams, but also realized that psychological factors can lead to dreams. What psychological factors can cause people's dreams? Judging from the comments of ancient thinkers and physicians in China, perception, memory, thinking, emotion and personality will all affect the generation and content of dreams. But more discussion is about the influence of thinking, emotion and personality on dreams.

Thinking leads to dreams.

Almost without exception, ancient thinkers in China believed that the day was full of thoughts and the night was full of dreams. Wang Fu of the Eastern Han Dynasty said: "People dream when they think; If you are worried, you will dream about it. " He added, "I think about it day and night, but I dream about it at night." He also gave an example: "Confucius was born in troubled times, thinking about the virtue of Zhou Gong every day, and night is a dream." Liezi also thinks that "daydreaming" and "dreaming at night" are closely related. Xiong Bolong of the Ming Dynasty also thought that "as for dreams, they are more caused by' missing and thinking'. Think every day and dream at night. " Wang Tingxiang, a contemporary thinker, also said: "The feeling of dream, thinking, fate and heart." In other words, dreams can be caused by thinking, perception and memory. In other words, Wang Tingxiang thinks that the whole cognitive process will cause dreams. As mentioned above, he regards dreaming at night as an extension and continuation of "thinking" during the day. The so-called "thinking before waking up, dreaming after waking up, thinking after dreaming, thinking after dreaming". He added, "Thinking is disturbing the day, and dreams are disturbing the night."

Emotion leads to dreams.

The dream of temperament mentioned by Wang Fu in the Eastern Han Dynasty and the dream of joy, fear and nightmare mentioned in Liezi are all dreams caused by emotions. Zhang Zhan of the Jin Dynasty also said, "I miss you mercilessly during the day and have no dreams at night." Xiong Bolong in Ming Dynasty acknowledged that thinking led to dreams, but he also had a very deep understanding of emotion leading to dreams. For example, he said, "Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty prayed for the altar and dreamed of Emperor Xuanyuan; Song Yezi indulged in erotic drama and dreamed that women scolded each other. Xie Tiao's dream sentence and Li Bai's dream pen gives birth to flowers are all caused by sadness and joy. "

Personality brings dreams.

Ancient thinkers in China believed that people's personality had a great influence on the content of dreams. As the saying goes, "The benevolent dreams of pines, cypresses, peaches and plums, the righteous dreams of swords and soldiers of gold and iron, the virtuous dreams of baskets of beans, the wise dreams of rivers and lakes, and the good believers dream of Shan Ye Yuanye". This passage not only shows that dreams must rely on experience, but also shows that dreams depend on people's personality. Wang Tingxiang believes that people who are "arrogant and stingy" will strive for strength and victory in their dreams; And people who have a "longing heart" will also pursue goods and profits in their dreams. In short, different personalities have different effects on the content of dreams.

Dreaming is an abnormal mental state with periodic characteristics, which occurs during sleep. Dream is a psychological and physiological phenomenon, and the mechanism of dreaming is still an unsolved problem. It is generally believed that not all cerebral cortex is inactive during sleep, and some cerebral cortex cells are still active, and sometimes they are influenced by memory traces and emotional fluctuations (such as anxiety, fear and surprise) during daytime activities, resulting in dreams.

Psychological characteristics of dreams A typical dream narrative often includes hallucinations, delusions, cognitive abnormalities, emotional reinforcement and memory loss. Dreams are characterized by vivid and fully formed illusion imagination, which is absolutely dominant in the field of vision. In most dreams, narratives of hearing, touch and movement are also common, while hallucinations of taste and smell are less, while hallucinations of pain are very rare. Dreams are characterized by obvious inaccuracy, discontinuity, impossibility and disharmony.

In dreams, people, images and events from a long time ago may be recalled intensively, and concerns are often woven into grotesque and fleeting dream structures. Therefore, the dream itself can be regarded as memory enhancement, which is in sharp contrast to the scene where the dream cannot be restored after the dream is over. It shows that dreams that enhance memory have amnesia. When the subjects are awakened in their dreams, most of their psychological activities are forgotten.

The relationship between dreams and REM sleep dreams mainly occurs in active sleep. Wake up children or adults in rem sleep, and about 60 ~ 90% of them complain that they are dreaming before waking up. This is much higher than that of people who are not awakened by active sleep (1 ~ 74%), and the distribution is more concentrated. Changes in organ function during REM sleep (such as changes in REM period, heart rate and respiration) can be understood as the physiological relationship between REM sleep and dreams, or dreaming in active sleep has more psychological and physiological basis.

psychoanalysis

Austrian psychoanalyst Freud

From the viewpoint of subconscious activity and sexual determinism, it is pointed out that dreams are the satisfaction of desire, not accidental association, that is, thinking during the day and dreaming at night. He explained that dreams are subconscious desires. Because of the lax inspection function during sleep, they take the opportunity to bypass resistance in disguise, break into consciousness and become dreams. The content of dreams is not the true nature of repressed desires and must be analyzed or explained. Interpretation of dreams is to find the true source of dreams.

The author divides dreams into explicit meaning and implicit meaning. Appearance is a mask to hide meaning, covering up desire (hiding meaning). The repressed desire during the day is deceived and tested by the operation of dreams to satisfy the desire.

Unexplained Phenomenon

Some dreams in daily life can indeed be explained by known science, and sometimes this explanation seems far-fetched.

I have to say that many people have dead relatives in their lives who hold dreams or predict what will happen through dreams. Although it seems incredible, it does exist. It is worth mentioning that dreaming about what will happen is also a part of ESP (Sixth Sense).

The true meaning of science lies in objectively revealing the essence and truth of things, rather than sticking to dogma.

So far, there is no strong scientific evidence to prove the non-existence of supernatural power and soul, and the scope of scientific explanation is limited, which increases with the increase of understanding.

It is wrong to think that only science is orthodox and everything else is heresy. Simply put, we can't think that the existing science is completely correct, or even the magic weapon to solve everything. In fact, it is unscientific to unilaterally assume that there is no supernatural power and soul if there is something unproven.

For these unexplained phenomena, we should realize: 1. Science only dominates the development of things within a certain range. 2. Science develops through acceptance and criticism, and it can't get rid of one-sidedness and dogmatism in a certain period of time, that is to say, the conclusion drawn by science may not be the ultimate essence of this thing.

Psychological interpretation of dreams

Dreams are the embodiment of thoughts and wishes.

Dreams are the fulfillment of wishes.

In modern times, the famous psychologist Freud made a pioneering discovery on the answer to dreams. He pays special attention to dreams, because he finds that dream interpretation is a sharp weapon to understand people's innermost feelings-subconscious mind. Freud said that Ben only wants to be happy, while the ego emphasizes the principle of reality. He depends on whether a wish is realistic or not, and he should consider ways to satisfy it.

Dreams are the truth of nature.

In the study of dreams, another master figure is Swiss psychologist Jung. Jung explained thousands of dreams and had a deep understanding of dreams, but his views were different from Freud's. He doesn't think that dreams are just to satisfy wishes, and he doesn't think that dreams are disguised. Jung believed that "dreams are spontaneous and undistorted products of unconscious thinking ... and dreams show us the natural unadorned truth."

Dreams are symbolic language.

American psychologist Fromm believes that dreams are a symbolic language. He said: "All myths and dreams have one thing in common: they are written in the same language and symbolic language." Fromm divided symbols into three categories: conventional symbols, accidental symbols and universal symbols.

Dreams are self-hypnosis

Freud's disciple Adler later established his own psychological system. He thinks that dreams are self-deception and self-hypnosis. In his view, rational and scientific people seldom dream. The dreamer, on the other hand, tries to arouse an emotion with dreams, thus doing something irrational.

The difference between "dream" and "dream"

The objective factors of dreams account for a lot and are unconscious.

The subjective factors of dreams account for a lot, and they are conscious and sustainable.

Dream and health

First of all, dreams are a sign of health.

The latest research results of doctors confirm that there is no "sleep center" in the human brain as imagined in the past, and dreams are the result of the joint action of various central points in the human brain responsible for various functions. If a central point is destroyed, it will form a dream, or an incomplete dream. In dreams, characters have only words, but no images.

Second, daydreaming is good for body and mind.

In psychology, people's psychological activities with fantasy plots when they are awake are called "daydreaming" or "daydreaming".

From the psychological point of view, daydreaming is an effective way to relax psychological nerves.

Experts who study human mental health say that although the exact mechanism of daydreaming affecting human physical and mental health is still unclear, it is certain that this kind of brain activity has played a benign role in promoting the immune system. On the other hand, "daydreaming" can free the left brain from language activities, make it at rest, and make the right brain give full play to its visual thinking ability, thus eliminating the fatigue of right-handed workers who are good at language thinking.

Third, nightmares are the prediction of diseases.

Dreams are everyone's subconscious psychological reactions. Although dreams are absurd, some dreams often reveal clues of health, so they were widely circulated in ancient China.

Psychologists believe that dreams seem to be an instrument that will respond to some unknown physical changes. For example, some hepatitis patients will have anxious and fearful dreams a few days before the onset of the disease, and some patients complain that they feel the right rib injury in their dreams.

Fourth, the emergence of psychological conflicts.

Hao Bin, a famous psychologist, said in his book Hypnosis and Psychological Stress Release: "There will be various feelings such as desire and emotion in dreams. Although these are all produced by your nervous system, they do not fully represent you. You can't say that the needs in your dreams are your essence. Many times, rational needs and perceptual needs are contradictory. They don't exist in your consciousness. They fight for your life. The conflict between these needs may make you feel at a loss and lead to psychological obstacles. However, if you have strong self-function and coordinate these conflicts well, they will make you grow better. In fact, this is one of the main purposes for many people to receive psychotherapy such as dream interpretation and hypnosis to gain personal growth. "

Freud's Interpretation of Dreams

Many times, rational needs and subconscious needs are contradictory, fighting for each other. The conflict between these needs may make you feel at a loss and lead to psychological obstacles. However, if you have strong self-function and coordinate these conflicts well, they will make you grow better. In fact, this is one of the main purposes for many people to receive psychotherapy such as dream interpretation and hypnosis to gain personal growth.