Several questions are left unanswered from this topic, it’s
quite fascinating that there’s a lot to study about dreams. Previous research
answered our question “Why people
dream?”, “How do we benefit from dreams?” or “What are the kinds of dreams?”
as we continue on studying “The biggest
myth about dream is that they are frivolous manifestations reflecting basic occurrences
of our daily experiences.” said Chicago psychotherapist Jeffrey Sumber.
But dreams are actually an important part of self-discovery,
Later on three fascinating facts and finding about dreams will be discussed.
People with
disabilities dream as though they don’t have them
An article from “Psychcentral.com” shows some “Facts about dreams” and one of the fact
is that people with disabilities are perfectly normal in their dreams. “I was supposed to and wanted to sing in the
choir. I see a stage on which some singers, male and female, are standing… I am
asked if I want to sing with them. ‘Me?’ I ask, ‘I don’t know if I am good
enough.’ And already I am standing on the stage with the choir. In front row, I
see my mother, she is smiling at me… It is nice feeling to be on stage and able
to chant.”
The dreamer of this dream was born deaf and doesn't speak.
Two studies published in the journal Consciousness
and Cognition have found that people
with disabilities still dream as though their impairments don’t exist.
Other deaf participants gave no indication of their
impairment: many spoke in their dreams, while others could head and understand
spoken language. People born or recently paralyzed revealed something similar:
they often walked, ran or swam, none of which they had ever done in their
waking lives.
Dream mimics the current life situation and gives us freedom
to link our unconscious mind to our conscious waking life, as it was a total
different life situation which helps to make our waking life situations be
better than what it currently is.
Studies suggest that
our brain has genetically determined ability to generate experiences that mimic
life, including fully functioning limbs and senses, and that people who are
born deaf or paralyzed are likely tapping into these parts of the brain when
they dream about things they cannot do while awake.
Younger people report
dreaming in color more often that older adults
Researchers found that about 80 percent of participants
younger than 30 years old dreamed in color, but by 60 years old, only about 20
percent said they did. The researchers speculated that color TV might play a
role in the generational difference.
Since the researchers started the study by
2009 and managed to continue until 2012 which indicates the difference of the
generation as younger children now a days had colored television compared to
older ones that had a black and white television since they were born, however
most young dreamers only indicates that they only remember few imagery of the
dream as black and white or they are not sure at all since most of it is 100
percent colored.
“Older people have more
black and white dreams” from “digest.blogspot.com”, said that If you dream in colour, you’re not
alone” majority of the people today claim to have colourful dreams. According
to Eva Murzyn at the University of Dundee there are at least two possible explanations
for this strange anomaly. The first is methodological, The early studies tended
to use questionnaires, whereas more modern studies use dream diaries (filled in
upon rising in the morning) which involves interrupting people’s dream=filled
periods of sleep to find out what they were dreaming about. People’s memories
of their dreams are likely to be less accurate using the questionnaire approach
and more likely to reflect lay beliefs about the form dreams generally take.
Most of the time “REM-awakening” are vivid dreams that you only remember,
usually it’s the most crucial part of your dream could be a nightmare that you
remember from that vivid dream.
The second explanation has to do with black and white
television and film. It’s possible that the boom in black and white film and
television during the first half of the last century either affected the form
of people’s dreams at that time, or affected their beliefs about the form
dreams generally take.
According to Murzyn’s findings, it’s the explanation based
on the media exposure that carries more weight. She used both questionnaire and
diary methods to study the dreams of the younger and older one’s. Younger
generation is most likely exposed to media and as their generation comes
coloured television is there that most of the time catches with our memory and
runs through imagination because of the things that we watched, unlike on the
older ones what they most likely remember is the war happenings and most of the
time the colour in real life by that time are just plain colours like black,
gray, white, and a little bit of coulours on to it.
Several questions are left unanswered by this study. It’s
not clear if the older participants really are experiencing more black and
white dreams or if their memories or beliefs about dream that is influencing
their reports. What’s fascinating about the study was about the impaired
subjects that still give them opportunity to have a simple and regular life in
their dreams which really helps them lessen their emotional feelings when it
comes to their impairments, there’s a lot worth searching for with this topic
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