Saturday, November 26, 2011

Dream Can Eliminate many Traumatic Memories

Dream Can Eliminate many Traumatic Memories of events that people woke up in the middle of the night due to often have nightmares. Dream proved to be not just a flower bed. According to a study recently dreamt is a natural mechanism that the body can remove our memories are the events displeased and considered bad or commonly referred to as traumatic.Of some test results obtained that the 20 per cent of sleep we dream or can contain also the phase of sleep REM. Dream is something very important in every human memory functions.In a process of scanning the brains of 35 participants revealed that there are people who sleep with a good quality had the amygdala brain activity is much lower. Amygdala is associated with emotions, while the front portion of the brain associated with rational thought.Before going to sleep volunteers of this research for its views of 150 images that are deliberately designed in such a way that can be used to provoke an emotional response. Then half the volunteers are allowed to sleep soundly night. The results obtained from it are apparently those who sleep well is not too bad considering the images before.From the results of this research scientists take a conclusion that chemical changes in the brain when a person is going through a phase of sleep REM (dreaming) can affect the human memory."During a sleep REM case decreasing norepinephrine is a brain chemicals related to stress," said Dr. Matthew Walker, who conducted the study.He added, while the brain is processing the repeated human emotional experiences with the condition of a substances norephinephrine, then the next day we can wake up with a much lighter emotions against unpleasant events earlier."So we can feel much more comfortable and capable of a little forgotten and face the unpleasant experience of it," he said.

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