We are talking about lucid dreams when the dreamer knows that he is sleeping and what is more, he can affect the content of sleep. Deja vu is the feeling that this previously forgotten event was already experienced by me ...
More knowledge about lucid dreams
This phenomenon is experienced by almost all people in certain periods of their lives. It is intriguing that in dreams, which, however, are extremely rare - we can influence the content of a dream!
Can a lucid dreaming fight insomnia?
It can be assumed that skilful training of this form of dreaming could protect us from nightmares and unexpected arousals, and thus against some forms of insomnia. These rather controversial and not fully confirmed suggestions were made by Stephen LaBerge in his book entitled Lucid Dreaming. LaBerge taught his patients to interrupt the beginning of nightmares by controlling the course of sleep and turning on the time by the sleeping buzzer who woke him up completely and interrupted sleep. Whether it is possible to include lucid dreaming into standard therapies remains a matter of doubt.
The memory of Bolesław Leśmian from his rural sleep testifies to the fact that some dreams can be controlled and "forced" to assume a certain shape.
Sometimes I dream about the village, which is against the fate
I force the effort of dreams to last,
Feeling like coercion, refreshing her every moment
Disappear when the imaginary heavens
My eyes narrowed in a vacuum
A place to meet my dream with blue.
Trees attract me with eye flowering -
Sometimes, only a leaf will delay
Or a branch, not so visible, through gaps
Sleep into the darkness will go beyond dreaming intentions.
Deja vu, or the feeling that this event has been forgotten so far, was once experienced by me ...
This unusual phenomenon refers to observations, events, dreams and is undoubtedly an extraordinary experience based on the feeling that a new place, situation or experience has already been seen, experienced or already had before it. It comes from the French word "already seen" and was introduced to psychopathology by E. Letter Boirac in 1876.
The deja vu phenomenon is quite common
It can be said that almost everyone once experienced them. There are many theories for its explanation. None of them is fully satisfactory. Reincarnation speculations describing this phenomenon as proof of our existence in "previous incarnations" or also explaining them "experiences of the soul wandering periodically out of the body" are from the fantasy or beliefs from a different culture. There are equally vague attempts to explain this phenomenon by the existence of archetypical experiences of collective unconsciousness that manifest themselves in the individual experience of the individual.
In fact, usually such an event has never been!
The fact is that during the deja vu we experience only the illusion of "a place once seen or a person" or a dream in the past "already lived - dreamed". Once again, we find in it - seats and persons or even sequences of events seen in a dream previously. Currently, however, deja vu is the most frequently considered form of delusional memory in psychopathology.
From the author - a philosophical-literary motto on dream delusion
That this type of memory or sleep illumination is a common phenomenon
- Jan Lemański wrote at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries:
The most real being -
A work of epochs, centuries,
Destroys day by day,
Until it falls into oblivion.
But one eternity lasts:
Illusions are indestructible,
And indestructible power
This illusion is a reality.
Doctor of Medicine Janusz Krzyżowski
Psychiatrist
