Why do you dream? Do dreams really give us any hints? Should we use metaphysics to narrate dreams, or should we use science to explain dreams? Do you think dreams arise because of parallel events, or the human psyche or an unknown prophecy? Was the first person to define the dream Freud or Zhou Gong? Today we are going to talk about dreams.
In fact, when it comes to dreams, about Chinese, the first ancient book that comes to mind is "Zhou Gong Interpreting Dreams", but in fact, the historical Zhou Gong may not interpret dreams. Born in the late Shang Dynasty and early Zhou Dynasty, the Duke of Zhou, whose full name was Zhou Gongdan, was the younger brother of Ji Fa, the King of Zhou Wu, and his deeds are generally recorded in the Book of Shang.
Judging from the records, his life's achievements are not in the matter of dream interpretation. But in the midst of the war, it can be summed up as one year to save the world, two years to conquer yin merchants, three years to build a state, four years to establish a Marquis Wei, five years to set up the Zhou Dynasty, six years to make ceremonial music, and seven years to become a prime minister. According to history, Zhou Gong and Jiang Ziya are people in the same file position, and they are a hero who has both culture and martial arts.
So why do so many people think that Zhou Gong is good at dream interpretation? The reason for this is that during the Spring and Autumn Period, people in the Spring and Autumn Period believed that there were two saints in history, one was the Xuanyuan Emperor and the other was Zhou Gongdan. Confucius, as the founder of Confucianism, pursued the path of the saints and often saw Zhou Gong in his dreams, and over time, with the development of Confucianism in later generations, the dream of Zhou Gong became well known. It was also during this period that a book called "Zhou Gong Interpreting Dreams" appeared, and it is obvious that this book is the work of posterity. The author of "Zhou Gong's Interpretation of Dreams" is unknown, and the date of creation is unknown. In the book, it is believed that dreams are a kind of prophecy, because people in ancient times could not understand the structure of consciousness, so they thought that the consciousness in the human brain was a kind of god, and this god resided in the human body, giving people all kinds of hints, in order to clarify this hint, Zhou Gong interpreted the dream into nine types:
The first is straight dreams, which are called day and night dreams.
The second type of dream is because the human organs have an impact on people when they are operating at night, resulting in dreams, such as children dreaming of seawater, most of them wetting the bed.
The third is called jing dream, this dream is very well analyzed by the ancients, I don't know if you have heard of the Qingming Dream, this is a topic that Westerners are studying, to the effect that people can control their dreams, our own dreams are another world, and the self in our dreams is the protagonist of another world.
The fourth is called a dream, which is a dream that appears because climatic reasons have an impact on people's dreams.
The fifth is called anti-dreaming, as the name suggests, the scene in the dream is the opposite of our real life, and the bad luck in the dream will be lucky in real life.
The sixth type is called the dream of the book, which is also the dream. This kind of dream has a large number of records in ancient books, and the ancients believed that the gods and ancestors would tell us good luck and bad luck through dreams.
The seventh type is called sending dreams, which is very special, referring to two people who have mutual induction have the same dream, and both people see each other in the dream.
The eighth is called sick dreams, and from the perspective of Chinese medicine, this is a dream caused by the imbalance of the five elements of yin and yang in the human body, indicating diseases in the body.
The last one is called a ghost dream, because the sleeping position is incorrect or because of a body lesion that causes a dream.
"Zhou Gong Interprets Dreams" analyzes the auspicious and evil behind these nine dreams according to the causes of their occurrence. So can dreams really foreshadow good fortune?
To understand this problem, the first thing we need to know is the root cause of dreams. Do you know how blind people dream? In the eyes of blind people, dreams will only appear in the objects and fantasy scenes that they come into contact with in ordinary life, and there are no visual scenes in their dreams, only perceptual scenes such as hearing and touch. According to the survey, the dreams of congenital blind people are all without visual information, even in the dream can not see the various scenes in reality, and the dreams of the day after tomorrow are the same as the dreams of ordinary people. That is to say, dreams are actually the reactions of the organs and consciousness in our bodies, and what they reflect is the fluctuations brought about by our consciousness, in fact, this statement is exactly the same as what the ancients said.
There is an old saying in ancient China called "no dreams to people", the so-called no dreams, that is to say, the real saints will not dream without distractions, that is to say, consciousness promotes dreams, and it is distractions that promote dreams, so many people often regard the books of the ancients to analyze dreams as superstitious products.
So what is the modern comparative science term? At present, the more scientific exposition of dreams is Freud's "Analysis of Dreams". Freud's full name is Freud, an Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist in the 1980s, who published a book called "The Analysis of Dreams" in 1899, in which the analysis of dreams is a kind of analysis that is currently recognized by the scientific community.
So how do you think dreams arise in this book? In simple terms, Freud's view of the essence of dreams is a tortuous expression of your subconscious desires, the symbolic satisfaction of the repressed subconscious through the various operations of dreams. In other words, the reason you dream is because the subconscious mind is at work. And the book also draws a classification of the causes of different dreams, for example, because natural causes have an impact on dreams or because the body senses feel something and then affect their dreams, or because what they see and hear during the day has a deeper impression in their minds, and then they encounter the same dream at night. In fact, these statements are consistent with the records of the ancients. That said, dream interpretation may not be so unrealistic.
It should be noted that although Freud explained the emergence of dreams, and although humans have a complete analysis of dreams, these are actually only speculations, and at best they are a reasonable guess.
In medicine, it is believed that dreams are produced by the functions of people's nervous system such as perceptual memory storage, and contain people's subconscious wishes and emotions.
In psychology, it is believed that when people enter a state of sleep or relaxation, some desires will avoid the examination role of the subconscious, secretly surface the level of consciousness, and express themselves in various forms, so dreams are formed.
However, there is a very key factor involved in this, and if we want to prove these two statements, then we need to systematically study human consciousness, but we currently know nothing about the formation of consciousness. Therefore, at present, there is no special scientific analysis of dreams. Therefore, there are many mystical scholars who believe that dreams are related to parallel worlds, and that the dream self is another self in parallel worlds, to be honest, this statement is more magical, but there is really no way to refute it, unless we can prove consciousness.
Why dreams can no longer be explained physically and psychologically, in addition to the cause of consciousness, there is a key question. Many people have had such a dream, in the dream to go to a strange and familiar place, or see strange and familiar people, what is going on? Medically, our perceptions and memories contribute to dreams, but our perceptions and memories are completely alien to this place. How can such dreams arise without this part of perception and memory? Is this the subconscious mind doing? It is possible, but unfortunately even if the subconscious mind is at work, we do not understand its mechanism of generation, because at present we have little research on consciousness.
So there are many statements here, there is such a statement is very interesting, although it is more ridiculous, but the angle is novel, to reiterate, the following statement is completely unconfirmed, you can listen to it as a story. Some people think that human consciousness is divided into out-of-body consciousness and retention consciousness, and after humans fall asleep, out-of-body consciousness will produce a kind of induction similar to quantum entanglement with body consciousness, so in many experiments, there will be a rather mysterious scene, obviously humans do not have any action, but the sensory system of the brain can still receive many designations. Unfortunately, although this statement explains many difficult problems, it still seems that there is no way to confirm it.
To sum up, the mainstream scientific community believes that what people see and hear in their daily lives and ideologies form a certain situation, which is caused by spirit or consciousness, although there is no way to confirm it, but at least it is not so mysterious. As for the occultists, they believe that such dreams belong to the Clear Ming Dream, which can be regarded as a hint and consistent with the records in the ancient books. Another type of dream that some of us have described above sees as a special kind of quantum entanglement phenomenon.
I often hear people ask, why is there anyone who believes in dream interpretation after the technology is so developed? This is because despite the development of science and technology, we still know nothing about dreams. So let's look at the most important question next, is the dream interpretation reliable?
First of all, dream interpretation is unreliable, not only that, Freud's psychological dream interpretation and medical understanding of dreams are also unreliable, because whether it is ancient book records, modern science, or more mysterious quantum mechanics, fundamentally do not explain the mechanism of dreams. That is to say, there is no more systematic exposition of dreams, and I believe that the dream interpretation that everyone looks at, whether it is psychological or ancient books, must be formatted content, and divination is the same. Note that only the content that forms the system and does not have any barriers can form a format, and then we use it. Otherwise, it is all unreliable, but unreliable does not mean not to study, on the contrary, it is precisely because of the existence of this thing and there is no way to explain, so we have to study more deeply.
Secondly, is it reliable to interpret dreams? Do dreams have the power to prophesy? These are two problems. I did a survey before, and some people think that dreams are prophetic, and that he has real experiences. Some people think that dreams are simple physiological causes, but in fact, these two statements are not wrong. The only mistake is that we do not have the ability to confirm it at present, so as to whether the dream has the ability to predict, it is absolutely the benevolent, the wise see the wise, please trust your own judgment.
However, interested friends can experience Lucid Dreaming and try to control their dreams. The specific operation method is to suggest that you want to dream before going to bed, and then use some methods to prove that you are dreaming in the dream. For example, reality differentiation, such as before going to bed, you obviously take off your shoes but put them on in your dreams. Take advantage of this, let the sleeping self know that you are dreaming, after these two points passed, you entered the world of clear dreams. It is said that in this world, your consciousness is the absolute king, and it is not certain that you can find the real answer to the dream in this, depending on whether you believe it or not...