Scientists from the University of San Antonio in Texas believe that frequent dreams, accompanied by vivid pictures, are inherent in psychiatric patients, or men and women with borderline disorders
The head of the work, Bravin Stent, is sure that both the predisposition to schizophrenia and the presence of this disease change the achromatic balance, which can serve as an indicator of diagnosing mental disorders.
Usually, people see black and white images, but in some cases, for example, under the influence of nervous stress or brain traumatic disorders, they can experience colorful dreams during the night's rest. In fact, dreams are a reflection of our reality, however, a uniform and strong stimulus leads to the appearance of constant colored dreams. The study involved three equal groups of volunteers aged 25 to 47 years.
The first category included patients with schizophrenia, the second - representatives of the stronger and weaker sex with hereditary features of this pathology, and the third consisted of mentally healthy individuals. Over the course of a year, they were monitored by American specialists who, while the participants were sleeping, recorded electrical activity on a CT scanner, indicating vivid dreams.
It turned out that schizophrenics are 20 times more likely and more likely to see color nightmares than everyone else.