Have you ever had a dream that you were in a foreign country? For me: Yes, it happened to me certain times. Most recently, I had a dream last night, in which I found myself in Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭. But I also had other dreams, in which I found myself in other countries, such as in Spain 🇪🇸 (Madrid), Russia 🇷🇺 (Moscow), Myanmar 🇲🇲, Vietnam 🇻🇳, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼, India 🇮🇳, USA 🇺🇸, a country that was a mixture of Germany 🇩🇪 and Poland 🇵🇱. I also found myself once in North Korea 🇰🇵(Pyongyang + I even met Kim Jong Un there, don't ask me how it was possible 😬). However, whenever I had a dream, in which I was in a foreign country, the places I saw there and walked to were just distorted images of landscapes and cities, which had little or nothing to do with their actual appearance. In most of the cases, we usually find ourselves in hybrid landscapes in our dreams. The reason for this is because our brains don't store exact ,,pictures" of places. Instead, they store fragments - features, impressions and emotional associations. The dreaming brain — particularly during REM sleep — shows reduced activity in areas responsible for logic and spatial coherence (like the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex). As a result, your brain freely mixes unrelated memories and sensory impressions: a street from your hometown might blend with a building from a movie or a vacation photo.
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Have you ever had a dream that you were in a foreign country?
For me: Yes, it happened to me certain times. Most recently, I had a dream last night, in which I found myself in Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭. But I also had other dreams, in which I found myself in other countries, such as in Spain 🇪🇸 (Madrid), Russia 🇷🇺 (Moscow), Myanmar 🇲🇲, Vietnam 🇻🇳, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼, India 🇮🇳, USA 🇺🇸, a country that was a mixture of Germany 🇩🇪 and Poland 🇵🇱. I also found myself once in North Korea 🇰🇵(Pyongyang + I even met Kim Jong Un there, don't ask me how it was possible 😬).
However, whenever I had a dream, in which I was in a foreign country, the places I saw there and walked to were just distorted images of landscapes and cities, which had little or nothing to do with their actual appearance.
In most of the cases, we usually find ourselves in hybrid landscapes in our dreams.
The reason for this is because our brains don't store exact ,,pictures" of places. Instead, they store fragments - features, impressions and emotional associations. The dreaming brain — particularly during REM sleep — shows reduced activity in areas responsible for logic and spatial coherence (like the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex). As a result, your brain freely mixes unrelated memories and sensory impressions: a street from your hometown might blend with a building from a movie or a vacation photo.
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