Dream a natural physiological process stay

in a state with a minimum level of brain activity

and a reduced response to the world around
inherent mammals, birds, fish, and some other
animals, including insects.

For a long time believed that the

dream is a holiday, the energy
needed to restore brain cells after
active wakefulness. However, it
appeared that the activity of the
brain during sleep is often higher
than during wakefulness. It was
found that the neuronal activity
of some structures of the brain
during sleep significantly
increased, i.e. sleep - it is an
active physiological process.

During sleep, slowed

breathing movements and
heart rate. The sense organs
are also relaxing and feeling
dull. At first sight is disabled,
then the ear, and finally
touch. However, the nervous
system continues to operate.
For example, some people
wake up instantly if to say
their name, while fast asleep
at any great noise.
Physiologists investigate
sleep by measuring the
electrical discharges in the
brain. They found that sleep
can be identified several
phases which alternate
overnight.

Sleep phase
-slow sleep
(muscles relaxed,
smooth
breathing, slowed
heartbeat)
-REM sleep
(cardiac rhythm
increases eyeballs
under closed
eyelids in motion)

The science that studies dreams called Oneirology. Dreams are

considered to be associated with the phase of rapid eye
movement (REM). This stage occurs approximately every 1.5-2
hours of sleep, and its duration is gradually lengthened. It is
characterized by rapid eye movements, stimulation of the pons,
rapid breathing and heart rate and temporary relaxation of
skeletal muscles of the body. Recently proved that dreams and
dream during REM sleep. But these dreams are shorter and not as
emotional.
It is believed that all people are able to dream, but not all of them
can remember upon awakening. Some people remember the
dreams dull and discolored, while others - bright and vivid. The
assertion that people see in black and white dreams, due,
probably, to the fact that in the dream, they do not perceive
colors, including black and white, but only images of objects.
Colorful dreams are usually peculiar to children or people with a
developed imagination. Special kind of dreams are lucid dreaming,
in which a person is aware that he is asleep, and sometimes trying to control your dreams.

Noted that if a person lives emotionally rich life and its hormonal
system is working intensively and diversely, then after a rough
day, the dream can not be. In this case we say - "sleep like a log."
However, if human life is monotonous (for example, he is in a long
depression), in which over a long period of time produced the
same chemical substance, he begin to dream "vivid dreams." Thus,
the dream may be a protective measure psychophysiological
downtime endocrine system, compensating for the production of
similar substances in everyday life. Possible and feedback.

During a hypnosis session, a

person is immersed in a
deep sleep, but the
mechanisms of this
phenomenon are still
unknown. With the help of
hypnotic suggestion can be
made to remember what
they forgot to overcome
senseless fears (phobias)
and cure of bad habits such
as smoking.