Do not jump to conclusions
So there's a dream coming true? Take your time. In all these dreams, there is nothing to tell in the sense of how it is interpreted by dreamers and fortune-tellers, no!
What happened to the paleontologist? After reflection, Sternberg himself found an explanation, who was not superstitious. He remembered that he had been hunting goats in that place shortly before the incident. When he sneaked up on them, he looked at them involuntarily, not paying much attention to what was growing here. His consciousness at that time was busy with another thought - how to get closer to the wild goats. However, what did not reach the consciousness of the person, the brain noted.
The fleeting gaze thrown at the plant, which was then requested by the museum workers, was enough for the brain to fix what it saw, and there were appropriate traces in it. These traces were brought to life in a dream after the scientist thought long and hard about where to find the right plant.
Dreams and medicine
We can argue that sleeping with a dog actually predicted the disease before it could be recognized.
This objection can only be accepted by half. Yes, of course, the dream predicted the disease. But, first of all, this disease could have been detected by the doctor if the patient had applied to him. Secondly - and this is the main thing - in this case, we face a cause-and-effect relationship between one phenomenon (a dreaming dream) and another (a disease.
Such a dream does not carry anything mystical. Moreover, doctors have paid attention to such a connection for a relatively long time. As early as 1935, Professor M.I. Astavatsaturov wrote: "One can, for example, admit that if disturbing dreams with elements of fear of death are combined with sudden awakening, accompanied by an indistinct fear of death, it may arouse suspicion of heart disease in a period when there are no other subjective complaints indicating such a disease.
The work of Doctor of Medical Sciences V.N. Kasatkin "Theory of Dreams, Some Laws of Origin and Structure". The authors, based on the richest material (he analyzed thousands of dreams) expresses the view that dreams can predict many diseases: Botkin's disease (jaundice) - about a week, neuroses - from a week to several months, chronic gastritis - about a month, lung tuberculosis - for one or two months, hypertension - for two or three months, and swollen brain - sometimes a year.
When a person dreams that he wants to come out of the water, or that he climbes into a narrow gap and gets stuck in it, or rises into the mountains, or his chest is squeezed by heavy clothes, such dreams may cause pneumonia, pleurisy, tuberculosis.
One day, an elderly woman came to see Dr. Kasatkin, who had been chasing a dream for a month: she herself or someone she knew eats raw or spoiled fish. The doctor sent her to the gastrointestinal examination and did not make a mistake - the woman was found to have acute gastritis.
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