Nicron #12 20 декабря 1996

Psychology - Dreams, part two.

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Prepared by Olga Minaev.
Obrabotka in Word-mdf hacker


             Healing nightmares

70 years of the American Psychotherapy added. In America
returning veterans of the Vietnam War. Many of them could not
normally live and work not because of injuries, but because of 
mental injuries. At night, they tortured nightmares. This 
phenomenon was widespread. To find the way out, American 
scientists have begun to Research. What did they find? 
Veterans, as a rule, dreaming is not the most life-threatening 
situation, and those in which they behaved properly: instead of 
running, buried in trench or retreating instead to shoot ... 
Dreams have their dynamics. All as one ex-soldiers from their 
sleep for the night started see all of the larger picture of 
hostilities. If at first they saw only himself, then eventually 
could see already the whole episode - and his comrades and the 
enemy, and the environment situation. From sleep for the night 
they started to act all accurately and correctly, are not 
completely mastered the situation. In this case, sleep less and 
less like a nightmare, and eventually have was not repeated, 
and people stopped anxiety and tension improving performance 
and family relationships. It would seem a paradox: veterans of 
the Vietnam War will never be sent to war, to Why do they 
retroactively correct their mistakes on the battlefield? Such 
work is in the dream was psychotherapy value. Thanks to the man 
regained a traumatic situation and corrected her. Intellectual 
and emotional understanding Actually, not only injuring her 
sides - yet One of the main functions of dreams.


The Role of Dreams for mental health proved conclusively
interesting experiment, also conducted by the Americans.
It is known that sleep corresponds to the so-called REM
eye movements. That is, when sleep is dreaming, his eye
apple quivering. This happens about 2 - 3 times per night to 15
minutes. (All night long nobody dreams do not see how he could 
this be desirable.)


U.S. scientists have taken a healthy, able-bodied individuals 
and divided them into two groups. Since the need for sleep is

individual, each of the participants, their sleep
required time. In both groups, the researchers disrupted sleep
twice per night on 15 minutes. But in one group, they did it
during the phase of rapid eye movements, and the other outside 
it, that is during normal sleep without dreams. Six weeks later

experiments in humans in the first group began explicit
neurotic symptoms. The first symptom was confusion:
they are not allowed to complete an intelligent comprehension
experienced and emotionally react to it. It is curious that
This experiment was conducted psychological behaviorists who 
denied the existence of the unconscious. The experiment was 
conceived as refutation of Freud and his followers. But in

result, they were forced to recognize a brilliant confirmation
the role of dreams, and hence the role of the unconscious to 
the psyche. 

             Clever little sleep

A considerable number of experts believe that the dream has to 
rest generally irrelevant. For the rest would be enough simply

lie. Sleep only to, distracted by so
Our favorite reality rework impressions of her,
organize, synthesize and interpret our everyday experiences.
Known phenomenon, when people throughout their lives a little 
sleep No more than five hours a day. These people were studied, 
and it turned out that the only thing they are fundamentally 
different from "Dormice, a higher intelligence, and hence

higher capacity for comprehension. Much of the
work that others were doing in the dream, they carried out in 
reality. So if you doubt the intellectual abilities

interlocutor can ask the duration of his sleep.
True, the situation radically changes the availability of 
children's rights trauma: The more, the longer a dream. All this

does not apply to sick people.

Sigmund Freud laid the foundation for the understanding of 
dreams. Today scientists know about dreams is much more than 
was known Freud. Yet startling new discoveries in this

the field is still ahead. Indeed, to this day much of it seems
unfathomable mystery.

                Prepared by Olga Minaev.
                    Obrabotka in Word-mdf hacker

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