The Day’s Events are Incorporated Into That Night’s Dreams

Published: September 6, 2010

THE FACTS In the world of sleep research, dreams are something of a black box. But one tidbit that scientists have discerned is the peculiar but predictable pattern in which dreams tend to occur.

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Christoph Niemann

Research suggests that much of what happens in a dream is unique to that dream. But some events from a person’s day can be incorporated into dreams in two stages.

First there is the “day residue” stage, in which emotional events may work their way into a person’s dreams that night. But that is followed by the more mysterious “dream lag” effect, in which those events disappear from the dream landscape — often to be reincorporated roughly a week later. This lag has been documented in studies dating to the 1980s.

A 2004 study in The Journal of Sleep Research began to shed some light on this cycle. Researchers reviewed the journals of 470 people who recorded their dreams over a week. The dream-lag effect was strongest among people who viewed their dreams as a chance for self-understanding; their dreams often involved the resolution of problems or emotions tied to relationships.

The researchers speculated that the delayed dreams were the mind’s way of working through interpersonal difficulties and even “reformulating” negative memories into more positive ones. Other studies have also shown a connection between dreams and this type of emotional memory processing.

THE BOTTOM LINE The dream cycle can be much longer than a single night.

ANAHAD O’CONNOR

THE GREATNESS OF RAMA
After killing Ravana,Lord Rama is resting on a rock.He notices a shadow approaching him .He realises that the shadow is that of a woman.He doesn't lift His eyes to see who it is,for Rama never looks at any woman other than sita .As the shadow nears Him,Lord  Rama pulls his feet up,&sits with his legs folded.This is to avoid even the shadow of the unknown woman.So careful is He that none other than His wife should touch Him.

 The shadow is then seen to recede.Lord Rama wonders who it is,who had come so close to Him & had yet retreated.So He enquires who the person is.

The shadow is that of Mandodari, and she discloses who she is. Rama asks her why she is there. she says she heard that Ravana is killed in the battle.Ravan had been a king who had struck fear in the hearts of his enemies.everyone believed him to be invincible . and yet he had been killed by someone. she had come to the battlefield to look at the man who killed her husband.she wanted to know what quality he had that her husband didnot have.Lord Rama then asks her whether she found what that quality was. Mandodari said yes. Lord Rama is particular that even the shadow of a woman other than his wife should not touch him.Ravana, on the othrhand, was willing to sacrifice so many lives in his attempt at making another man's wife his.There in lies the difference.

That one quality of Rama led to his victory, says Mandodary.

Ravana's sin had been so heinous that he had been slain. there was right on the side of Lord Rama and he was exeption among man.there may be men ou wardly loyal  to their wives, but there thoughts may go astray.

Lord Rama was the one whose thoughts and words never went astray. 

TO LORD RAMA , SITA IS IRREPLACEABLE.

                                                     source:-THE HINDU {RELIGION}
                                                    DATED:-27 JULY 2010