The study revealed three stories that occur in our dreams and report an increased level of anxiety. For example, these include the appearance in dreams of former partners.
Since ancient times, mankind has been trying to figure out what certain dreams mean. There are entire dream books that decipher the appearance in a dream of any characters and objects from cats and dogs to old cabinets and crows in the sky. However, all of them are not based on a serious scientific basis. And now scientists from the University of Düsseldorf have published the results of a study that shows that the content of the dreams of people suffering from anxiety disorders can already be assumed to have these mental problems.
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The study identified three plots that are much more common in major patients with anxiety disorders. For example, the appearance in these dreams of former partners with whom you have already parted. Also, in people with anxiety disorders, dreams have a more powerful emotional coloring, and the images in these dreams change at a much faster rate than in people who have everything in order with the psyche. The authors of the study decided to establish specific characteristics that are more common in people with anxiety disorders, and this could only be done by comparing their dreams with what healthy volunteers saw at night.
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So, the first group included 38 people with anxiety disorders, and the control group included 38 people without them. They were all asked to keep dream diaries, fill out questionnaires, and go through sleep analyzes one-on-one with a psychotherapist. Subsequently, the results obtained were compared. Note that not all people remember what they dreamed about at night, and many people think that they do not dream of anything. This is due to the fact that the brain quickly discards this information, as it does not consider it important and prefers not to clutter up memory with it. But if you manage to write down the plot of the dream immediately after waking up, then it will remain fixed. Otherwise, you will literally forget about what you dreamed about in a matter of minutes. (READ MORE) 
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public university in German city of Düsseldorf. In the university, opened in 1965, in the 2010-2011 academic year, 17.002 students study at 5 faculties