Can Dreams Be A Part Of Real Life?

Daily life affects dreams, dreams affect daily life.

Dreams have always been a mysterious part of our ​​lives. Although scientists have different ideas about the function and meaning of dreams, new research on dreams can add a new dimension to the controversy. Here is why.

A new study at Roma Tre University reveals that dreams can be a continuation of our real life. The long and arduous process of dream analysis has led dream scientists to search for an algorithmic solution that would automate the analysis of dream reports. Scientists who succeeded in analyzing the meaning of more than 24 thousand dreams in the examinations made on dreams in the database they call “DreamBank”, discovered significant findings.

Alessandro Fogli, a computer scientist at Roma Tre University in Italy, emphasizes that how the day passed is important when you are having a dream. For example, you are more likely to have tension-filled dreams at the end of a tense day in which you had to go to a job interview. According to Fogli, dreams are more of a continuation rather than a symbol of what we going through in our daily life. If a dream is a continuation of our daily lives, it can also mean that it can help solve a problem in our daily life.

A specially designed language processing device played a key role in this research. In this way, the research team analyzed the dream reports and compared the data they obtained with the reports previously prepared by dream scientists. The 75 percent match rate between the two methods supports the assumption that dreams are a continuation of what we experience when we are awake. Because there were significant examples of ‘statistical indicators’ reflecting the experiences of dreaming people in their normal lives.

Research conducted on 24 thousand dreams has discovered other important findings as well. According to research, three main elements can be mentioned in the interpretation of a dream: social interaction, characters, and emotional words. Scientists believe that interpretations based on these factors may be sufficient to establish a connection between dreams and real life.

It’s hard to say that research is enough to understand exactly what dreams tell about our lives. However, experts consider the findings they have achieved so far to be overly promising. Scientists believe that with the development of new technologies, it will be possible to grasp the essence of the relationship between dreams and real life.

According to Fogli, while daily life affects dreams, dreams also affect daily life. Although this is a bold claim, future research on this subject will certainly draw my attention.

How about you? What do you think about the impact dreams have on our lives?