How is the nightmare of people sleeping? How did the nightmare come about?

Nightmares

The dream experience, which is dominated by anxiety and fear, often appears repeatedly and has detailed memories of the dream content. This kind of dream experience is very vivid, often involving the content that threatens survival, safety or self-esteem. During the attack, there is autonomic nerve excitement, but there is no obvious voice or body movement. Once he wakes up, his alertness and orientation quickly recover.

a nightmare is a nightmare. As far as the word "Yan" is concerned, Xu Shen said in "Shuo Wen Jie Zi": "Yan is also a dream." Word Garden is interpreted as "ominous in sleep." Guang Yun is simply interpreted as a "nightmare". I often scream and groan because I seem to see or encounter terrible things in my dreams. This kind of dream is very exciting to people, and the dreamer can clearly recall the content of the dream after waking up. These dreams make people feel very frightened, and make people in extreme anxiety, or play with monsters and ghosts, playing at the palm of their hands; Or be pursued by vicious people and hungry animals; Or your relatives and friends are on the verge of some kind of disaster ... When you want to shout, your throat seems to be blocked by something and you can't shout it out; When I want to escape, my legs seem to be tied back by someone's hand, and I can't escape, so I am helpless, breathless and almost suffocated. When I was about to wake up, I often felt that my body and limbs were hard to move, as if I had been tied by something. After many twists and turns, I finally woke up. At this time, I was already in a cold sweat, and my three souls had been scared away. Some dreamers believe that this is caused by the oppression of the dreamer's soul.

Nightmares occur in REM sleep with dreams. Because REM sleep accounts for a high proportion in the latter half of the night, nightmares occur more often in the latter half of the night. At that time, the heartbeat and breathing may increase, but there will be no significant autonomic response. When children wake up from nightmares, they often cry and say they are afraid. Parents' comfort can calm them down and go back to sleep.

Causes of Nightmares

Nightmares have both external physical stimulation and internal psychological trauma. In terms of external causes, nightmares are mostly caused by sleeping with a quilt covering your mouth and nose, or by pressing your hand on your chest. When people sleep, the activity ability of the heart and lungs is relatively weakened, so when the mouth and nostrils are blocked by quilts or the chest is oppressed, they feel that the heart activity is hindered and it is difficult to breathe. This kind of stimulation from the outside quickly spread to the cerebral cortex, causing incorrect reactions, so nightmares came into being. Some people see ghosts pouncing on themselves in their dreams, bared their teeth and trying to eat themselves, so they want to struggle and shout, but the part of the brain that commands the muscle movement and voice of hands and feet is still in a state of inhibition, so they want to struggle in their dreams, but their hands and feet can't move; I want to make a hullabaloo about, but I can't make a sound. In addition, some people suffer from some chronic diseases, such as chronic tonsillitis, chronic rhinitis, chronic bronchitis, etc. These diseases often have the problem of poor breathing, so they are prone to nightmares in their sleep.

From the internal causes of nightmares, the dreamer must have been mentally stimulated before having nightmares, leaving an incurable psychological trauma. When people are awake, they rely on reason to dominate their lives. Therefore, the psychological trauma left in their early years is suppressed by reason, and it is difficult to "talk" heartily. When people fall asleep, reason loses its authoritative role and consciousness is weakened. The subconscious mind appeared, and the psychological trauma left by the dreamer in his early years was "expressed" with the help of nightmares. Han Yu said in the poem "Visiting Xiangxi Temple": "Hesitation is in the waves, and it becomes a nightmare." It can be seen that nightmares are indeed associated with fear and vigilance.

Modern psychologists believe that the reason why people have nightmares is usually related to something that the dreamer was afraid of in childhood, which can be traced back to the childhood when people were unable to help themselves. Children aged three to six are most likely to have nightmares. An adult may also have nightmares once he feels that his safety is not guaranteed, or when he thinks of some frightening and disturbing things in the past.

Is the nightmare really a ghost?

Nightmares feel very bad. When they are awake, they can't make a sound or move their limbs, just like the soul is attached to a corpse. Not only that, at this time, the brain will be eager to fall asleep, and people will fall asleep irresistibly, and their eyes will gradually turn black and their consciousness will be blurred. But at this time, out of the instinct of longing for consciousness and fear of nightmares, people tried to get rid of nightmares and wake up immediately, but they couldn't get up because they couldn't move. At this time, if someone touches you or calls your name, you can wake up immediately.

As we all know, nightmares have a high probability of appearing in ghost novels and are often regarded as ghosts in rumors. This is because the probability of hallucinations during nightmares is also high.

tell a story first. An authoritative research institution in the United States investigated people who claimed to have met aliens and communicated with them, used lie detectors when they told that experience, and eliminated 7% of the rumors. In the survey of the remaining hundreds of people, the researchers found that their experiences had amazing acquaintances-almost all claimed to wake up in the middle of the night and find aliens visiting their homes. Some said that they disappeared after seeing aliens strolling around the bedroom, and some claimed to have been invited to an alien flying saucer for a talk.

There are two questions here: whether their experience is true or not, and why the polygraph can't detect that they are lying. Since they didn't lie, why did they all have contact with aliens while sleeping?

because they had nightmares and hallucinations. Researchers say that the hallucinations during nightmares, that is, when you are half asleep, are extremely real and very real, and usually you can't tell the truth when you wake up. Moreover, the survey found that these people believed in the existence of aliens long ago, paid more attention to the information about the third kind of contact in their daily lives, and were eager to get in touch with aliens. The content of alien hair occupies a large proportion in their thoughts, so it is normal to have hallucinations related to aliens in nightmares, which is also called thinking day by day and dreaming night. Some people have hallucinations in nightmares, and then go back to sleep and start dreaming. The content of dreams is probably information related to that hallucination. For example, if you have the illusion of a ghost, the ghost finds out that you are awake, leans towards you, and then what happens, starts a nightmare. Those surveyed dreamed of coming to an alien spaceship, and a series of stories happened ...

Through this story, we can understand why some people claimed to have seen ghosts when they were overwhelmed by ghosts, because there has always been a deep ghost culture in our China tradition. The ancients interpreted the fear of unknown things as ghosts, and modern people learned about ghosts through stories they heard when they were young, books and movies, and ghosts in these contents are usually even more horrible. Over time, I get used to associating things I fear with ghosts. So I get scared in nightmares, and then I have the illusion of ghosts.

The so-called "ghost pressing the body" is just a superstition among the people. It is definitely not really a ghost pressing the bed, let alone being haunted by ghosts. In fact, it is a disease with sleep disorder. The phenomenon of "ghost crushing the body" belongs to a kind of symptom of sleep paralysis in sleep neurology. At that time, patients are half awake and half asleep, and brain waves are awake amplitude. Some people also have visual hallucinations, but the muscle tension of the whole body is reduced to a minimum, which is similar to the "paralysis" state, and the whole body can't move, just like being covered with a golden bell, which is what most people call it.

since ghosts have nothing to do with ghosts, how can we explain nightmares?

when people are sleeping, their brains are in a dormant state, and they dream halfway. As many people know, during sleep, deep sleep and light sleep in the brain alternate constantly. When the brain is light asleep, people will dream; When you sleep deeply, you are completely unconscious and feel like you are in the deep sea without light. Under normal circumstances, people wake up from a shallow sleep. When you unfortunately wake up from a deep sleep, the possibility of nightmares is very high. At this time, if you wake up but can't move, it's because the center responsible for receiving information in the brain is awake, while the center responsible for exercise is still asleep. At this time, you can only blink and vent, but you can't move, even if you want to bite your tongue to wake yourself up. The explanation of nightmare is as simple as that, but it is no different from a stroke patient. Because a part of the brain is still asleep, and the waking part continues to sleep under the influence, it will produce irresistible drowsiness. In this half-dreaming and half-waking process, what the human brain thinks at this time is very easy to be projected into hallucinations, which are combined with the information transmitted by the retina and transmitted to the signal processing center of people. Because the degree of truth is extremely high, even the brain is usually deceived.

After learning about nightmares, I hope you don't feel too afraid of them, and don't have any shadows in your heart because of the hallucinations you had in previous nightmares.

How to prevent and solve nightmares

The main thing is to develop a healthy lifestyle and ensure enough sleep.

and drink less water before going to bed, and don't force yourself when you don't want to sleep. Because there may be nightmares when you fall asleep, but the probability of hallucinations is relatively low.

The correct sleeping posture is also very important. Generally, people with nightmares like to sleep upside down, that is, chest down, and they like to sleep with their heads covered. Lying on your back, being covered with a thick quilt or putting your hands on your chest, being overly nervous during the day and having a full dinner are all the causes of nightmares. If you sleep on your side and avoid the above causes, you will not have nightmares.

there are several ways to wake yourself up when you have a nightmare. It is almost impossible to do things with your hands and feet in a nightmare, but you can try to shake your head.

and don't sleep there after waking yourself up, which is very likely to cause nightmares again. It's best to turn on the light and get up at once, drink some water, sit down, and go back to sleep when your mind is clear.

TCM diagnosis

Nightmare refers to screaming or hallucinating in sleep, with a heavy body pressed, unable to move, unable to breathe out, terrified, chest tightness like suffocation, which is a common clinical symptom. Its occurrence is related to physical weakness, fatigue, anemia, low blood pressure and emotional factors such as depression, anger and anger. < P > Because the blood pressure is further reduced when people fall asleep, which leads to cardiac and cerebral ischemia and reduced oxygen supply, the motor center of cerebral cortex enters the inhibition state before the sensory center; Or because the peripheral nerve enters the inhibition state faster than the central nerve, it causes the nightmare of lucidity and motor paralysis.

Chinese medicine believes that nightmare is caused by deficiency of both qi and blood, poor circulation of qi, stagnation of qi and blood stasis, and obstruction of meridians. Therefore, for the prevention and treatment of nightmare, we should first pay attention to strengthening nutrition, strengthening physique, preventing excessive fatigue, treating anemia, and avoiding depression, anger, anger and other negative emotions. For patients with hypotension, 2 grams of Radix Astragali, Radix Codonopsis, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Radix Glycyrrhizae can be decocted in water and taken orally for half a month. Most patients can recover their blood pressure within one course.

In addition, the prevention and treatment of nightmare can still adopt the guidance method. The specific method is to bend the thumb and hold the thumb inward with the other four fingers. Especially when falling asleep, you should get into the habit and do it constantly, so that the onset of nightmare can be gradually reduced.

Children's Nightmares

Nightmares are very common among children, most of whom are 3-7 years old. "Nightmare" refers to the content that can be vividly recalled after waking up from a nightmare. These dreams are always terrible, which makes the dreaming children in extreme anxiety, or played by monsters, or chased by bad guys and beasts, or they and their relatives are on the verge of some kind of disaster, etc. At that time, they couldn't think about it, and they couldn't escape, and they were often helpless and breathless. When I am about to wake up, I often feel that my body and limbs are hard to move, as if I were pinned down by something. It takes several struggles to fully awake.

Nightmares occur in REM sleep with dreams. Because REM sleep accounts for a high proportion in the latter half of the night, nightmares occur more often in the latter half of the night. At that time, the heartbeat and breathing may increase, but there will be no significant autonomic response. When children wake up from nightmares, they often cry and say they are afraid. Parents' comfort can calm them down and go back to sleep.

there are five reasons: first, I was unhappy before going to bed that night. The second is watching horror movies or listening to horror stories such as ghosts and gods and detectives. Third, sleep posture is not good, such as hands on the chest. Fourth, poor breathing caused by respiratory diseases or intestinal parasitic diseases. Fifth, overeating and stomach fullness.

The correction method is to eliminate the above related factors, correct bad sleep habits, and pay attention to the regularity of life at ordinary times. Don't use intimidation and other means to educate children, restrict them from watching exciting movies and TV, and don't tell children ghosts and gods and scary novels to avoid their emotional tension. Treat his physical illness in time. Frequent nightmares can be controlled by using a small dose of diazepam (diazepam) in a short period of time.

The difference between nightmares and night terrors

Night terrors have obvious frightened expressions, strange noises and autonomic symptoms, such as rapid heartbeat and breathing, sweating profusely, dilated pupils and pale face, which shocked the parents of children, but I didn't know anything and had no memory afterwards. Nightmare is that children who are dreaming wake up from their dreams and feel very scared, but others can't see any obvious movement. The night scares others, and the nightmare scares yourself.

When a child has a nightmare, you can wake him up as soon as possible and comfort him by saying, "This is a dream, it's not true, don't be afraid." Let him sleep until his mood is stable. Generally, medication is not needed. Frequent attacks can be taken orally at bedtime for several nights. Usually, you should avoid watching scary movies and listening to scary stories. Those who have psychological pressure and physical incentives should be treated symptomatically. After removing all kinds of factors that induce nightmares, they will generally not recur frequently. In addition, with the growth of age, the onset of nightmares will naturally decrease or stop.