[Curiosities] 15 curiosities that you did not know

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1.- Although we do not always remember dreams, whenever we sleep, we dream
Although the REM phase does not last a whole night, there is not a night we sleep that we do not dream.

 

2.- We were born to flee
Or this is what the experts who have measured the adrenaline levels of our brain assure us when we face a danger.

 

3.- Children grow while they sleep
The famous growth hormone works while we sleep. This makes sense since we are barely aware.

 

4.- The why of the phantom limb
When a person has a limb amputated, he feels that he is still mobile. This makes perfect sense if we take care of the reason since, they say, the area of the brain responsible for regulating touch and mobility is still active.

 

5.- An active principle of antidepressants causes uncontrolled orgasms
There are countless medications that are used to treat phobias or anxiety that have clomipramine as an active ingredient. This causes orgasms at the beginning of the treatment or so hundreds of patients, both women and men, attested it.

 

6.- Cognitive dissonance, the key to why we deceive ourselves
It is one of the main reasons why human beings have two contradictory thoughts or make decisions that are contrary to our principles. An example is the smoker who knows that tobacco is harmful and justifies himself by saying that "you have to die of something."

 

7.- We are all "a little" paranoid
In fact, it has been shown that all human beings at some point behave in a paranoid way to fill in information (cognitive bias). The difference between an average person and a schizophrenic is that in the latter the brain regions responsible for transmitting these messages are continuously activated. Or as a psychology professor that I had at the University of Valladolid would say with whom I was lucky enough to teach; «A neurotic creates a world according to him. A schizophrenic goes to that world to live ».

 

8.- We try to rationalize but we are guided by emotions
Or that's what emotional marketing lives on, in charge of selling us anything by appealing to our emotions.

 

9.- Fantasizing about success is not being successful (although we think so)
Another common cognitive bias that coaches and personal trainers appeal to is the belief that if you think you will be successful, you will have all the characteristics in the environment to succeed.

 

10.- The repression of emotions has nothing to do with suffering from diseases
Or, at least, there are no serious studies to corroborate these words.

 

11.- The halo effect or how to prejudge from incomplete information
If you know a person and they are pretty and friendly, it is very likely that you tend to attribute a whole bunch of positive characteristics (intelligence, generosity… etc). On the contrary, if a person is unattractive and unfriendly at first, it is also likely that you apply a rather unpleasant complete personality.

 

12.- We are programmed so that we do not like our brothers
This was stated by Edvard Westermarck, who laid the foundations for the homonymous effect, which is based on the proven premise that those people who have lived together since childhood were much less likely to be attracted to the other after puberty.

 

13.- If you want to achieve your goals, don't talk about them so much
According to a study carried out in the Department of Psychology of the University of New York, those people who spent too much time talking about their projects to others were less likely to carry out these projects since the communication of those objectives led them to obtain a immediate reward for being listened to and they were more likely not to carry out their plans.

 

14.- Gifting to others makes you happier than buying things
This was witnessed by an investigation by psychologists Michael Norton and Elizabeth Dunn. The degree of satisfaction was higher in those who gave a gift than in those who gave something to themselves.

 

15.- Are you in love? Maybe a little deranged
Donatella Marazziti, a professor of psychiatry and director of the Laboratory of Psychopharmacology at the University of Pisa, Italy, attested to this by equating romantic love to OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).