Some common objects and actions never appear in our dreams. Why?
Humans still don't understand the purpose of our dreams, but that doesn't stop our brains from creating wonderful but strange concepts in alternate worlds that leave us absolutely dazed in the morning. Flying elephants, fighting aliens or riding a motorcycle may be a common part of our dream repertoire, but things like smartphones, mirrors or food are rare guests.
So why in a dream? we are unable to see or do something that we can easily do in waking life? Here are some presentable explanations!
Smart phones
According to the research only about 3.55 percent of women and 2.69 percent of men see smartphones in their dreams. Maybe that's it related to the fact, that we are recently acquired a smartphone or other modern device and our brains haven't quite gotten used to them yet.
It exists theory, that we dream so that our brain can process our worries and fears and help us manage stressful situations. So dreams are supposed to act as a kind of defense mechanism, and the things we dream about often come from that from older parts of the human mind. They are more related to problems that our ancestors might have faced, such as warfare and survival.
However, certain circumstances can trigger the appearance of a smartphone in our dreams. Alice Robb, author of The Book of Dreams Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey he says it's easier for people to see smartphones in their dreams if they pass through more intense life situations, such as bereavement and the loss of a loved one.
Writing, reading, actually speaking
The areas of our brain responsible for interpreting language are, while we sleep, much less active. Therefore, the formation and expression of language is a considerable task.
So, for example, some people they notice that they are not quite sure that they or other people are speaking in dreams, khowever, the communication between them seems more like telepathy. So we can understand concepts and ideas while we sleep and can express ourselves, but we don't hear the actual sound of speaking, nor do we see anyone actually speaking.
The same applies to reading, writing or predicting the time. We can have general idea about all this, a we can rarely make out individual words or tell what time it is. However, people who use their language a lot in their daily lives, such as writers or poets, are said to actually understand the language in their dreams and come up with new ideas that are still useful when they wake up.
Meeting complete strangers
It exists theory, Yes our brain is not capable of "inventing" new people and that all the strangers we see in our dreams are people we have already met somewhere, or their faces are a combination of features we have seen before. While the researchers point out, that so far this theory cannot be tested due to the nature of our dreams, they say that the hypothesis is nonetheless true.
Most of our dreams are supposed to be foundations on everyday life elements, that's why we have already seen all these "strangers" from dreams. We may not consciously remember them because the interaction was brief and meaningless, such as when we see someone in a crowd or in an advertisement on television.
However, despite this, there is almost no obstacle for our brain not to "invent" new faces, which, in all probability, are based on facial features that we have already seen.
Carrying out physical activities
We've probably all experienced this - in our dreams we try to run, fight or jump high, but it seems as if all of these we do in slow motion, no matter how hard we try. Researchers hypothesize that this is because it is supposed to be during sleep perceived time differently, both slower and faster.
In addition, we dream in the REM phase, when our muscles are relaxed and immobilized. This is how our brain makes sure not to act according to what we dream about. So the feeling of slow motion can occur due to lack of feedback from muscles or because of slower neural processes during this stage of sleep.
Looking in the mirror
Mirrors and reflections are a very interesting concept of our dreams. In the real world, reflection obeys the laws of physics, but dreams are driven by our subconscious expectations and memories, so the rules of "real life" don't apply there. Therefore, we will usually be in the mirror see something blurred or blurred, or we will see our face transformed in a strange way.
Some people they believe that, given that dreams are supposed to somehow help us process our waking lives, our reflection in the mirror might be a look at ourselves from a psychological point of view. So the things we see in the mirror could have some correlations with events in our daily lives, with our self-esteem, and with the struggles we may be experiencing.
Tasting food
Experts they say, that people rarely feel the "full experience of eating" in their dreams, and usually we only remember that we are in a dream were going to eat or that we had just finished eating. However, if we manage to remember the whole process, we may have trouble recognizing the flavors.
But sometimes people just they manage to feel the taste of food also in dreams, which is especially common among lucid dreamers. In our dreams to us the brain creates an experience based either on real events that have already happened to us, or it comes up with its own idea of how something might feel. The food could therefore have an "imaginary taste" or something completely unusual, which could be based on our expectations and memories.
