“Wake up! Wake up! You are late!”
“Just… five… more… minutes”
Poof! It’s all gone! It felt as if it was real. I was in
that moment. I was doing this and that. I saw things that I wanted to see and
more. It felt so real that I was so tired of the activities that I had. First
off, I was doing something and I saw something. Wait, what was it again? What
did I just do? Oh well. Remembering what I have dreamt about will only give me
headaches.
Does this ever happen to you? Finding it hard to recall what
you have dreamed about? Or not even remembering that you had a dream? This
happens to me all the time. Apparently, I am one of the “low dream recallers”.
From the name itself, it means that I have hard times in recalling what my
dreams are. Now, if you remember what your dreams are, you are in the “high
dream recallers” club.
It is not like I don’t remember any of my dreams. I
sometimes do enter the “high dream recallers” club but, that’s when it felt as
if I was awake the whole time.
According to a research by a team led by Perrine Ruby,
Inserm researcher at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, “high dream
recallers” are more “awake” while they are dreaming than the “low dream
recallers”. The former wakes up twice as much as the latter, research says and
they are more sensitive to auditory stimuli while asleep. With these activities
of the brain, the high dream recallers often wake up in the middle of the
night, but for shorter periods of time, and thus, easily remember piece by
piece what their dream is.
The research by the team was conducted using a Positron
Emission Tomography (PET) and was conducted with some volunteers who were
classified as “high dream recallers” and “low dream recallers” beforehand. The
main results of the research showed that the “high dream recallers” experience
more activity in the part of their brain that is involved in the attention to
external stimuli or the surroundings.
"This may explain why high dream recallers are more reactive to environmental stimuli, awaken more during sleep, and thus better encode dreams in memory than low dream recallers. Indeed the sleeping brain is not capable of memorizing new information; it needs to awaken to be able to do that," explains Perrine Ruby, Inserm Research Fellow.
How about sleepwalkers? Why do most of them don’t remember
that they walked and did something during their sleep?
According to an article on kids’ health, sleepwalking occurs
during the stage where the sleepwalker is in deep sleep. That is right! When
someone is sleepwalking, it is very hard to wake them up. Inferring from the
statement given by Perrine Ruby and for the case of sleepwalkers, you would say
that since they don’t wake up for a time, they won’t be able to encode that
they sleepwalked. Well, if that’s your answer, you may be wrong.
According to another research by Antonio Zadra of the
University of Montreal, there are a proportion of sleepwalkers that actually
remember what they did and the reason for their actions. It’s just that it is
different from reality. An example of that is the case of the man who walked
and sprayed water on his dog in the bathroom. He remembered the event clearly,
it’s just that the dog was on fire; thus, the reason for him to spray water on
his dog.
Now, just a friendly advice from the doctors, professionals,
bloggers on the net and from the people who have experienced doing this: DO NOT
WAKE UP SLEEPWALKERS WHILE THEY WERE SLEEPWALKING!
Why? You may shock them since they are from a deep sleep and
who knows, you might get a bruise or two.
Hence, the case of the sleepwalkers is somehow different to
that of the dream recallers.
Are you a high dream recaller? Or are you a low dream
recaller? Do you sleepwalk? Find out now and get back to sleep and when you
wake up, tell me, do you still rememb—
“Wake up! Wake up!”
“Five… more… minutes… please… I was about to tell the reader
something”
“Uhm.. Great! What was I about to tell them?”
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