Dreams...One of the most intriguing mysteries in humanity. Nowadays, as technology evolves rapidly, dreams are perhaps the most a...

THE MYSTERY OF DREAMS AND INCEPTION

1/11/2019 English 0 Comments

  Dreams...One of the most intriguing mysteries in humanity. Nowadays, as technology evolves rapidly, dreams are perhaps the most abstract reality. Do dreams really mean anything? Or is it a game of our subconscious? Are the clues of the future hidden in dreams? Why are we having nightmares? Why do we forget 90% of our dreams in the first 10 minutes? All these questions are the unanswered questions that humanity is curious about.

   In general terms, the dream is the sequence of images that occur during the sleep, but in fact, it is the totality of images that remain in the mind by the end of sleep. So why do people dream? The most prominent of the claims put forward in this regard is to distinguish what our brains need to keep and filter out the data they perceive during the day. At this point, dreams are the greatest helper of the brain at this stage of elimination. Making the subject more clear, objective and subjective situations (people, colors, events) that we see or encounter throughout the day are recorded in the brain. Recording everything is exhausting the brain. With dreams, the unnecessary parts of these data are cleaned. Therefore, dreaming is a sign of being a healthy individual. Professor Jonathan Winson, a researcher at Rockefeller University in New York, states that people who do not dream have difficulty learning and experience physical and psychological distortions.

     

   Dream research is as ancient as the history of mankind. Throughout history, people have tried to make sense of and interpret the dreams they see. The dreams have affected the decision-making process for many rulers and politicians at the point of the state's survival. One day Alexander the great dreamt of someone sitting on his shield. Alexander's dream commentator, after listening to the dream in detail, interpreted that the city called Tyros will be conquered. Alexander decided to make another campaign to the city where he had previously failed conquests. However, surprisingly, the city people surrendered in a short period of time and recognized the reign of Alexander.

  Throughout history, dreams have inspired people, scientific developments and inventions. Bohr, the father of mechanics, began to work on the structure of the atom after completing his doctorate in 1911, but could not achieve a result for a long time. Then one night, he dreamt that the electrons revolve around a nucleus as the planets revolve around the sun. He focused on the model he had dreamed of, proved the accuracy of this model and in 1922 he received a Nobel Prize for his studies. Albert Einstein had a dream one night that he was sliding down a mountain with almost the speed of light. It slides so fast that the stars around it almost change the look. After waking up, Einstein intensified his work on this dream and admitted that he developed the theory of relativity through the dream he had seen. Paul McCartney, a member of the Beatles group, started playing the piano immediately to remember the melody he heard in his dream, and as a result, a masterpiece such as 'Yesterday' appeared.

  Research on dream has shown differences between eastern and western philosophers and scientists. While Western thinkers saw the dream as a result of man's daily life and experience, Eastern thinkers took part in this vision and interpreted it as a divine message from God in the line of Destiny. However, despite the fact that many things have been written and discussed the mystery of dreams throughout history, no one has been able to find the secret behind this event with certain evidence.

DREAM MACHINES

  One of the most curious questions is whether the people will have the opportunity to see the dream they want. Dr. Shalini Paruthi, who sleep specialist in the Cardinal Glennon Health Center, claims that there is a method to see the desired dream even though it is not 100% effective. According to him, you need to focus on the dream you want to see as if you are meditating. The physical conditions of the focusing environment are important in this respect. The focus should be made at suitable room temperature in a quiet, dark environment and no other subject should be considered. Dr. Shalini Paruthi claims that if these conditions are met, you will be more likely to have the dream you want and you will be less likely to have the nightmare.

  The desire of people to dream what they want has led many technology companies to work on it. The Japanese company Takara invented a device as a result of his work on this subject. The operating system of the device is as follows; After you look at the picture about what you want to see in your dream and give the recorder information, this device lets you see the dream you want in REM period during your sleep with sound, light, music and smells. First, the sound of the device, which allows you to relax with the music played in the background, awakens you with the sound and light at the end of your eight-hour sleep. However, there is little information about the efficiency of this device.

THE CONCEPTION OF INCEPTION MOVIE  

 Most of us watched the Inception movie or should watch as soon as possible. The movie is considered to be the best film of the mysteries of the dream world. After the Film was released, it brought up many discussions. A scene of the film shows people who are connected to dream machines after taking heavily soothing pills to dream, and for these people dreams are reflected as real life. Sleeping in people's lives is seen as wasted time, the idea of having the dreams they want during sleep makes people excited already. Let's think about it. One night you can see yourself as the striker of your National Team in the final match or you can be near the person you love. You can spend time in dreams with your dead mother or father. This is very different from virtual reality because you will feel the dreams as real. Perhaps you will be disappointed when you wake up, but your pleasure will be priceless.

  When we think that we sleep 8 hours a day, one in three of our lives goes to sleep. From this point of view, the sleep process can be used more efficiently. Our brain is more active than normal during sleep. Therefore, dream processes also contribute to our learning process. For example, we learn new foreign language words. The dreams we see for the situations in which these words are used can provide great benefits in memorizing the words and taking place in our subconscious.

  There are also two different points in the movie of Inception, which create great excitement in people. The first is to enter the dreams of the target person to give up his or her decision on a subject or to convince him or her to do the opposite options. The second is to enter into dreams and steal secret and important ideas that people work on it. Even though it sounds crazy, in the future, especially on political issues, by entering into dreams, you can try to change the decision of leaders and decision-making mechanisms and you can make them behave or take a decision in line with your own country's interests. This can help you make moves before your opponent. In the same way, for fighting against crimes and the solving of important events you can benefit from dreams. Because individuals who commit a crime, even though they claim that they are innocent, they especially see dreams about the crimes they committed in parallel to their remorse, regret, and fear. Of course, based on the current developments in the subject of the dream today, reaching the points mentioned above is very imaginative and impossible to achieve. But as Arthur Clarke said, 

                'What human beings can do is limited to their imagination'