Dreams
Psychic Center
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Dreams are hard to remember because during the physiological sleep the superior centers of the brain only work on the absolutely necessary functions.
These superior centers are located on the brain cortex, the gray matter that wraps the brain. This is the last portion of the brain that is developed in the evolutionary scale on animals that are subordinate to man, the last that is developed during the child growth and the first one that suffers the ailing due to aging. |
During short periods of time throughout the day, brain cortex operates at its maximum rate of conscience, receiving signals that come from sensitive organs, analyzing them, comparing them with the data resulting from past experiences, acting if it is needed, and saving some new information for the future.
When individual is working on routine tasks like wash the dishes or drive a car, less analysis is required. At night, at sleep time, the flow of incoming signals decreases more, the muscles get relaxed, breathing process becomes more regular and much deeper, and the conscience goes down. Mental activity is developed at low speed.
This state has much in common with unsuitable intellectual proceedings and the brief memory lapses that are very common in young or very old people, and also in drunken people. On each one of these cases the brain cortex operates with a diminished effectiveness.