Experts explain the three major health benefits of dreaming

Dreaming is a normal and necessary physiological and psychological phenomenon of the human body. Many people think that dreaming while sleeping deprives the brain of rest, which is a bad phenomenon, but in fact, proper dreaming is also good for the body.

First, relieve fatigue and rest your body

Fatigue is the depletion of energy after both physical and mental activities. The brain's energy mainly relies on glucose supplied by the blood. Physical and mental activities require a lot of glucose. If the glucose supplied from the blood cannot meet its needs, the body will use its reserves. Lactic acid is produced in the process of utilizing the body's reserves. Excessive accumulation of lactic acid is a physiological and biochemical manifestation of fatigue. Sleep can relieve this fatigue. When you fall asleep, all human activities stop, muscle consumption decreases, and body temperature also drops to save energy.

Another function of human beings when they sleep is to synthesize new proteins. Most of the new proteins needed by the human body are synthesized during sleep. Therefore, sleep is essential to relieve fatigue and rest the body.

Second, organize information and bring enlightenment

We experience a lot of things during the day, and our brains need to constantly record, monitor, and record everything that happens around you. Whether you are conscious or unconscious, especially when there is a large amount of visual information, as long as you glance at it, all the stimuli will go into your brain. When you sleep, your brain will replay and organize the information while replaying, and then put it into different functional circuits of the brain according to the different content.

In addition, the brain also has the function of learning at night. For example, there was a very famous strange case in the West. The detective was puzzled all day and couldn't figure out how the case happened. As a result, he dreamed about what happened at night, and the next day he solved the case according to the clues in his dream. Dreams like this during sleep at night sometimes bring sudden enlightenment and sometimes bring innovation.

Third, adjust your psychology

We know that if we have good dreams the night before, we will feel energetic and in a good mood the next day. But if you have a nightmare, you will be in a bad mood the next day. You will feel like you did not sleep well. You will feel anxious, irritable, and prone to temper tantrums, and you will not be able to concentrate on your work. It can be seen that dreaming is an indispensable part of maintaining a good mentality.

From the perspective of psychoanalytic psychology, the meaning of dreams lies in the satisfaction of desires. Whether you are a noble person or a humble person, deep in our hearts, there are too many desires that we are willing or able to express and those that we are unwilling or unable to express. Many of these almost endless desires cannot be satisfied immediately or at all in unrealistic life. Desires that fail or cannot be satisfied in real life can be psychologically satisfied in dreams and help regulate psychological balance.

If there were no dreams, desires big and small would prevent us from sleeping. Even though we sometimes feel uneasy and anxious in our dreams, we can still achieve both dreaming and sleeping.