Researchers suggest that dreams are the continuations of everyday's reality after studying 24,000 dreams in massive research. People often ask about the origin of dreams, which is an age-old question.
A hypothesis stating that dreams reflect waking-life experiences is supported by studies investigating the dreams of psychiatric patients and patients with sleep disorders. In short, their daytime symptoms and problems are reflected in their dreams. pic.twitter.com/50K2jNS9Gx — Evie Mazzone (@Evie_Calling) December 10, 2018
People have been wondering and theorizing where do dreams come from and what are their purpose. Ancient civilizations believed that dreams have spiritual or supernatural sources. However, people in modern society interpret the brain's sleeping activity as "waking life."
Experts are currently looking for connections linking the dreams' content with lived experiences from a person's day-to-day activity.
"Research has repeatedly provided strong support for what sleep scientists refer to as the continuity hypothesis of dreams," explained the researchers, who were led by Alessandro Fogli, a computer scientist from Roma Tre University in Italy.
"Most dreams are a continuation of what is happening in everyday life," they added.
The scientists said that dreams are affected by people's everyday life, such as anxiety, which leads to dreams with adverse effects. They can also affect the ability of an individual, such as problem-solving.
The researchers developed a new tool to analyze dreams
Alessandro Fogli and the researchers created a new tool to analyze dreams. The new technology was used to observe people's sleeping brain activity on a vast scale.
It analyzed 24,000 dreams from "DreamBank," a giant public database of dream reports. The scientists explained that innovation could automatically score dream reports.
Massive Study of 24,000 Dreams Suggests They Really Are Continuations of Reality pic.twitter.com/1xetxntCUB — pet lovers (@rickygaram) August 26, 2020
The dream processing tool can simplify dream reports' text and only focus on social interactions, emotions, words, and characters. These three dimensions are the most important factors since it could aid the scientists' interpretation of dreams.
The researchers also explained that the new tool could define the dream plot's backbone, including the actions, people, and emotions expressed.
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Written by: Giuliano de Leon.
