Dreams have always exhausted, amazed researchers, and have many questions about them. What is the nervous purpose they serve, if any, and how does stress affect our dreams?
Under the heading "Your nightmares about the Corona Virus are Good for You", an article on the Bloomberg News website, by Sarah Green, says that disturbing dreams of stress may help a person cope with frightening circumstances, although many details of dreams fade as soon as they wake up from sleep, But its impact remains, it is a severe fear that everything is out of control and nothing to do is sufficient.
Green says these strange dreams are not just nightmares and that during difficult times even normal dreams can become unusually vivid. For example, her husband dreams of his favorite fishing river, because it is the place he misses most at the time of the complete closure, which many people live in.
The writer referred to the theory that dreams are a way for our brains to understand today's events, cleanse short-term memories and incorporate useful information. Comfortable sleep helps us solve problems and make better judgments, and dreams may help that process by gathering information and eliminating mental disorder.
Matthew Walker, professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of California Berkeley, says the dream is a unique condition that may allow us to "reprocess annoying memories in a safer, quieter environment", when we wake up we are less emotionally involved, and some difficult emotions may have lost their intensity.
Another idea is that dreams somehow help in solving problems. A Walker study found that people who were awakened during a dream were better able to solve puzzles than those who were awakened from other sleep cycles and were more likely to pronounce the solution immediately. This is one reason why friends who face a difficult decision to "sleep on it" are encouraged.
The author recommends steps that can be taken to get a more comfortable sleep, including setting a fixed sleep schedule for the person and the family. Many sleep experts suggest setting aside the last hour to unload the charge and use this time to listen to quiet music or read a novel that turns you away from reality rather than catching the latest nightmare news. And stay away from caffeine because it prolongs sleep and sleep.
If you work from home, try to keep working outside the bedroom as possible. Finally, remember if your dreams are bleak, it is just the mind's way of adjusting.