Dreams Can Foretell Diseases
Why can dreams reflect diseases when there are no clinical symptoms during the latent period? From a pathological perspective, many physical and mental illnesses are not obvious during the latent period. Modern physiological psychologists believe that when people are awake or during the day, they are bombarded with external stimuli, leaving the brain no time to pay attention to subtle signals of an early-stage disease.
In addition, the brain can regulate and suppress these signals, causing them to disappear. However, during sleep, the input of external information significantly reduces, and many brain cells enter a "resting" state. So, when abnormal stimulating signals of latent lesions enter the brain, the corresponding brain cells can become active. Once the excitation spreads to the cerebral cortex, the brain cells react, resulting in various dreams.
According to research by American scientists, depriving oneself of dream sleep for several consecutive days can lead to tension, anxiety, scattered attention, irritability, hallucinations, and abnormal behavior. A study from the University of Edinburgh found that during dream sleep, there are highly active chemical reactions inside the brain, with peak protein synthesis and renewal of brain cells, accelerating metabolism. This gives the brain cells that cannot be replaced an opportunity to rapidly update their protein composition in preparation for intensive work.
If you consistently experience dreamless sleep every night, your brain cells may not receive the necessary protein updates, leading to prolonged sleep and difficulty waking up. It is evident that dreams are closely related to life. Different diseases are associated with different types of dreams, although dreams related to the same disease are usually similar.
Coronary heart disease and heart patients often dream of being chased, feeling fear in their hearts, and being unable to shout, leading to sudden awakening. Some may even dream of falling from a height but not reaching the ground, causing them to wake up abruptly. People with angina often dream of their bodies being twisted or subjected to torture, as well as a sense of impending death. If they undergo medical examination, the likelihood of a diagnosed coronary heart attack with impaired coronary artery blood flow is high.
Patients with lung diseases such as pneumonia, pleurisy, tuberculosis, and lung cancer often dream of chest compression, carrying a heavy burden, or experiencing dreams of their airways being blocked, breathing difficulties, or suffocation.
Febrile patients often dream of flying in the air, being engulfed in flames, fighting monsters, tearing things apart, or screaming and running.
People with brain tumors and neurological disorders may dream of someone or monsters hitting their heads or having substances poured into their senses. Those who hear strange sounds in their dreams may have certain lesions in their auditory center or nearby blood vessels undergoing hardening.
Dreams involving water scenes such as floods, swamps, or drowning suggest possible abnormalities in the liver, gallbladder, and kidneys. If you dream of being beaten and wake up feeling pain in the corresponding body part, it may indicate possible lesions in the corresponding organs. Therefore, experts believe that if similar dream scenarios as described above occur repeatedly during sleep, it should be a cause for concern.