Now it's time to talk about the so-called prophetic dreams. Believe or not believe your dreams? Sociologists, having interviewed one and a half thousand of our compatriots, found that housewives, low-skilled workers, retirees and women in general (about twice as often as men), with a lower-middle education, low income and living outside cities, believe in prophetic dreams most of all. In a word, it is understandable that the research carried out by sociologists made them doubt the existence of prophetic dreams.
And yet, history knows many cases proving that prophetic (or prophetic) dreams are not at all the invention of impressionable and poorly educated people.
Dreams can affect the body in the strangest ways. Scientists have drawn attention to this since ancient times. For example, Galen was once approached by a patient who dreamed that his leg had become stone. And now, after a certain time, this person had paralysis of the leg. And the patient of the French neuropathologist Lermitte once in a dream felt how he was bitten in the leg by a snake. A few days later, it was in that place that he developed an ulcer. Stories also know vivid examples of how the subconscious mind helps to solve problems in a dream and make discoveries. Who does not know, for example, that Mendeleev discovered his periodic table of elements in a dream!
Dream specialists often cite this example of a prophetic dream. Ryleev, at a tender age, fell seriously ill. And now his mother had a dream in which a certain voice told her not to ask God for healing for the baby, because his life would be difficult, and death - terrible. The poor woman saw the fate of her son, including the gallows. And yet, she dreamed that her baby would recover, and asked the Almighty for this. The boy recovered, but his mother's dream turned out to be prophetic: Ryleev's fate was indeed very difficult, and his death was terrible: he, as a participant in the Decembrist uprising, was hanged in the Peter and Paul Fortress.
The dream of Mikhail Lermontov is also known. The poet loved to do mathematics at his leisure. Once he could not solve a difficult problem, and so he went to bed, unable to cope with it. In a dream, the poet saw a stranger who suggested a solution to the problem. Lermontov woke up, wrote it down, and at the same time painted a portrait of the stranger. Many years later, the drawing fell into the hands of specialists, and they saw that it depicts John Napier, the creator of logarithms, who lived in the 17th century. The poet's contemporaries argued that Lermontov knew nothing about Napier or his works. And here's something else interesting: John Napier was a Scot, and, as you know, one of the branches of the Lermontov family tree originates from George Lermont, a native of Scotland.
They say that American President Lincoln also had a prophetic dream. Shortly before his death, I saw in a dream the White House and in it a coffin under a white cover. Lincoln asked the soldier who was on guard at the coffin: "Who died?" The soldier replied: “President. He was killed in the theater. " Ten days later, Lincoln was killed in the theater.
There are many such examples of prophetic dreams. I wonder what the experts think about it? There are several theories on this score. For example, bioenergetics believe that a sleeping person takes material information from an external source - from the noosphere. It happens as follows. The organism, disconnected from reality, seems to turn into a device that scans the noospheric information and selects the necessary one. And not everyone is endowed with this property.
Neurologists compare the work of the human brain during sleep with a computer. In their opinion, the brain processes the information collected during the day and combines it with the information already in memory. Based on this hypothesis, dreams are a kind of window for the study of nervous processes that can help a person develop, improve and correct behavior strategies.
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However, this theory has opponents. They consider it inaccurate and argue that messages in a dream only at first glance seem to be ahead of events, but in fact reflect the meaning of already accomplished facts. Well, maybe they are right. Indeed, even Freud argued that a dream does not portend anything and does not have the slightest relation to the future. It contains only the past and the experienced. Sleep analysis makes it possible to understand the hidden aspirations and fears, the roots of which are very difficult to get to in other ways.
A person often has strong desires that contradict his upbringing and psychological attitudes. He is afraid to admit them even to himself. During the day, when a person is awake, these unattainable desires are sent to the region of the unconscious. But when he sleeps, his inner censor also falls asleep, and secret desires break free and manifest in dreams. A sleeping person does not have the ability to act and fulfill his desires, and therefore his hallucinations are completely harmless. Moreover, he forgets about them the next morning. Such a phenomenon can be taken for a kind of compromise: passions boil in a dream and forbidden scenarios are played, and after awakening they are forgotten or remembered in such a distorted form that they seem completely meaningless.
Probably, we will not be mistaken if we say that the secret of dreams has not been fully disclosed. No one can say exactly what our dreams actually tell us.
M. Kanovskaya