Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, 43, was in orbit from March 2, 2023 to September 4, 2023, almost 186 days, as part of the crew of the SpaceX Crew-6 mission and the ISS-68 expedition. /ISS-69.
Recently, at the “VNaUke” 2.0 festival, Fedyaev revealed that many people in orbit experience the same dream: they meet acquaintances on Earth, and those acquaintances are surprised to see them. “Often a cosmonaut dreams as if he is walking on Earth, he meets some acquaintance and the acquaintance says, ‘Hello! What are you doing here? You should be in space,'” Fedyaev is quoted as saying in Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Fedyaev explained that this recurring dream seems to spread among the cosmonauts themselves. “Someone dreamed it, told it, and then it spread, like some kind of contagion, maybe,” he said, according to Gazeta.ru. He suggested that the cosmonauts, by sharing these dreams with each other, might be programming themselves to have such dreams.
Despite the prevalence of this dream among his colleagues, Fedyaev himself has not experienced it.
Fedyaev’s account suggests that close surroundings and shared experiences can lead to common subconscious themes.
Komsomolskaya Pravda reported that Russian scientist Vladislav Vyazovsky’s research on how to put a person into a state of animal hibernation has intrigued space industry specialists. Vyazovsky suggested that people who make long flights in space should be put into hibernation, which means a state of complete stupor and slowdown of all vital processes.
He explained that when animals go into hibernation, they periodically come out of it for normal deep sleep, which is necessary for the nervous system. “Scientists still don’t know how to teach a person to do the same thing,” he said.
Fuentes: Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Gazeta.ru, RBC
This article was written in collaboration with generative AI company Alchemiq.
