Table of contents:
- The 5 most common dream characteristics and traits
- 1. Dreams are difficult to remember
- 2. Dreams often cause strange sensations
- 3. Dreams usually make no sense
- 4. Dreams often display strong emotions
- 5. Strange dreams are always acceptable
Everyone generally has dreams while sleeping, be it a beautiful dream or a nightmare. Dreams or what is often called the flower of sleep, have various unique characteristics that often raise questions about their truth. Of the various uniqueness and characteristic dream characteristics, have you ever experienced one of them?
The 5 most common dream characteristics and traits
1. Dreams are difficult to remember
Even though dreams almost often occur while you are sleeping, are you always able to remember what dreams you had last night? Yes, most people have difficulty remembering dreams after waking up - even if they are classified as beautiful dreams.
Even sometimes, although you can still feel the plot of the dream, usually only a few fragments of the dream or only certain parts that you can remember.
Researchers also estimate that there are about 95 percent of the parts of dreams that are difficult to remember when you wake up. That means, only a small part of the dream that you can realize.
2. Dreams often cause strange sensations
It seems that not a few people complain about the strange sensation that appears while dreaming. For example, when you start falling asleep until you get closer to dreamland, suddenly there is a danger that appears so that you feel yourself falling from a height without realizing it. Instantly you wake up in shock and do not know the continuation of the dream.
Or in another dream "episode", you are depicted as being trapped in a frightening condition, and the worst at that time is that you are unable to control your body movements to walk, run, or do other self-defense. What is this?
Basically, the characteristics of this dream are common and harmless. This condition can sometimes be triggered by fatigue, stress, and lack of sleep. But even healthy people experience this a lot. When you experience it again, just take a deep breath, relax, and try to get back to sleep.
3. Dreams usually make no sense
Dreams are generally filled with a variety of feelings, whether happy, sad, afraid, sometimes causing strange and ambiguous things. According to J. Allan Hobson, a sleep researcher and author of the book The Dreaming Brain, argues that one of the advantages of dreams is that dreams often don't make sense, and don't always comply with natural laws involving time, place, or people.
Take for example, some story content from dreams usually doesn't make sense, for example someone can fly, fall unharmed, travel time, have conversations with animals, people who have died can come back to life, various kinds of people can be present in your dream , change into a different person, or other unique things that may not happen in your conscious mind.
4. Dreams often display strong emotions
One of the characteristics of dreams that you may not be aware of is that the emotions that appear in your dreams can be very strong, acute, or even very real. Have you ever felt like you were experiencing something that made you think about it all the time so that later that feeling was present in your dream?
According to Sigmund Freud, a psychoanalyst and author of The Interpretation of Dreams, said that the content of dreams is often related to the dreamer's desires. That is why dreams that feel so real or imagined events that appear in dreams play a role in expressing desires that are unconsciously owned by the dreamer.
5. Strange dreams are always acceptable
In fact, regardless of the storyline presented in the dream, we can always accept the dream. Yes, even though it is strange and absurd, in fact our minds are never able to resist the presence of dreams.
How did it happen? According to Hobson, the cause is due to the power of emotions and perceptions that are generated within you. During a dream, there may be strange, illogical events, as well as people and objects that look unusual.
If you then remember the dream when you wake up, you may think that the dream tends to be strange. But still, while sleeping you will always accept whatever the storyline of the dream is.
