Unsere Träume, insbesondere die lebhafteren und eindringlicheren, könnten uns helfen, das Gefühl zu haben, dass unser Schlaf tiefer und erholsamer sei. Anstatt uns zu ermüden, können wir uns durch all das Träumen ausgeruhter fühlen, so eine neue Studie.

Vivid dreams trick your brain into thinking you slept well

Even though our brains are more active, those hyper detailed dreams may make us feel more rested.

**Our dreams—particularly the more vivid and immersive ones—could help us feel like our sleep was deeper and restorative. Instead of tiring us out, all of that dreaming may make us feel more rested, according to a study** published today in the journal PLOS Biology.

Deep sleep is often thought of as the brain being more “switched off,” with slower brain waves, little activity, and no awareness of the outside world. In this school of thought, the deeper the sleep, the less active the brain.

By comparison, dreaming has been associated with Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep and partial awakenings of the brain during sleep. We also experience the REM stage-–marked by intense dreaming and brain activity similar to when we are awake—as relatively deep sleep.

The team found that the participants reported the deepest subjective sleep after more vivid and immersive dreams. By comparison, minimal or fragmentary sleep experiences, like a vague sense of being present somewhere without clearly understanding what was going on in a dream, were associated with the shallowest perceived sleep.

For those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003683

I wish it was true for me. When I have very vivid dreams I feel like I wasted more energy in having those dreams and I usually have very vivid dreams.

But it’s a very interesting study.