Are there prophetic dreams? Detailed answer

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Are there prophetic dreams?

If we tried to collect descriptions of all the superstitions associated with dreams that existed among different peoples at different times, we would fill an entire library with them! Most of these superstitions attribute a certain "meaning" to dreams, including the meaning of prophecy. And not only primitive people believed that dreams predict the future.

In Europe, there were soothsayers who claimed that they could predict the future of a person from his dreams. Moreover, the definition of the future by dreams was a special kind of science in ancient times and was called "oneiromancy". This name is derived from the Greek word "oneiros", which means "sleep".

Of course, we all know the story from the Old Testament about how Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dreams. And we know that even today there are people who buy more "dream books" that are supposed to help them determine their future on the basis of dreams. What does science think about the content of dreams? Why do we dream what we dream, and what does it mean? First of all, it must be said that science rejects the assumption that our dreams are a "message" from above, according to which our future can be predicted.

The content of our dreams comes from different sources. Images can arise under the influence of some external stimuli that act on you during sleep, for example, extraneous sounds or the feeling that your feet are frozen or a breeze is blowing on you. In addition, dream images may have their source in our memories, or our interests, or some strong passions that we experience. Sometimes our dreams repeat almost exactly what has happened to us in the past.

In other cases, real events in a dream undergo changes. But the content of our dreams is the result of our memories of the past, not the shadows cast by the future.

Author: Likum A.

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Why, in September 1945, on the eve of the arrival in the French capital of the English microbiologist Alexander Fleming, the Parisian newspapers wrote that he made more whole divisions to defeat fascism and liberate France?

Such a high appreciation of the merits of Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) by the Parisians was due to the fact that he discovered penicillin, the use of which during the Second World War saved the lives of a huge number of wounded who were considered hopeless a few years ago.

In the late 1920s, Fleming grew some cultures of staphylococci (bacteria that cause purulent inflammation) for bacteriological experiments. One day, he discovered that small circles appeared on the surface of the medium where the cultures were grown - areas on which staphylococci were destroyed. Bread mold (Penicillum notatum), which accidentally fell on an uncovered cup in which a culture of staphylococci was grown, turned out to be the cause of the bacteria's death. Fleming suggested that the mold produces a certain substance (penicillin - as he called it), which causes the death of staphylococci.

In 1929, Fleming published the results of his research, but they did not receive due attention from the scientific community. Yes, and Fleming himself, even in 1940, said that "penicillin is not worth doing." However, already in 1941, the British biochemist Howard Walter Flory (1898-1968) and his colleague Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979), a native of Germany, obtained an extract from bread mold, which, in clinical trials, proved to be effective against a number of bacteria. Flory traveled to the United States, where he helped develop a program to develop methods for purifying penicillin and accelerating its formation of mold.

By the end of the war, large-scale industrial production of penicillin and its use in the clinic had been established. In 1945, Fleming, Flory and Cheyne were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery and preparation of penicillin.

They say that many years after his discovery, Fleming visited some modern microbiological laboratory, equipped with the latest science and technology. He inspected with interest the latest equipment, the sterile room with filtered air and the sparkling clean tables. “What a pity that you didn’t have such a laboratory in your time!” the director of the institute who accompanied Fleming remarked. “Who knows what you could open in such conditions!” "At least not penicillin," Fleming replied with a smile.

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