Scientists have learned the value of nightmares

Scientists believe that bad dreams help psyche to cope with negative emotions, while nightmares indicate that processing has failed.

As you know, we sleep about a third of his life, that is more than twenty years. 5 years of the twenty we dream. And there, you see, sometimes things happen much more interesting than real life.

People have long tried to unravel the purpose of bad dreams. The latest research in the field of psychology and physiology of the brain helped to open the door a little to the mysterious world of dreams.

Scientists believe that bad dreams help psyche to cope with negative emotions, while nightmares indicate that processing has failed.

In the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science , scientists Ross Levin and Tore Nielsen wrote that terrible dreams - one of the methods that the brain uses to process negative emotions.

Emotional regulation may be the main purpose of sleep, which occurs in the majority of dreams.

Nightmares, which scientists define as bad dreams that lead to awakening, by contrast, arise when the process emotion regulation is violated.

The researchers note that the bad dreams - quite normal. From observations, most of our dreams are difficult to attribute to the happy.

See all dreams. With that hardly anyone would argue - at least a couple of dreams in my life be able to remember each. Much more surprising - we see them every night, but still not one but five pieces.

Certainly not everyone will agree, and for good reason. In fact, we just did not remember. It does not depend on memory, and the attitude to dreams, or rather to the fact that they show us. If a person believes their complete nonsense, then his dreams with the onset of the morning, most likely, delicately hidden somewhere in the depths of the subconscious.

Lots of running and physically tired people usually sleep, "like the dead" and their dreams too little remembered.

Dreams are the same for us every night, without asking permission, and not interested in our relationship, because it is a physiological process, like everyone else.

Nightmares, forcing the person to wake up, according to scientists, disrupts the normal recycling process emotions. Waking up in the midst of a nightmare seems to rescue the man, but he woke up, he was only strengthened by the feeling that the danger is real.

Nightmares are a lot of people, especially in a period of strong stress . Approximately 85% of people might be at least one nightmare a year.

Nightmares become a problem if they begin to affect the day well-being.

Scientists also write that new ideas about the nature of nightmares helped create a new, more effective treatments for this problem.

For example, its effectiveness has been proven method replay images when the patient while awake recalls his nightmares and consciously change their story.