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The dream experience, which is dominated by anxiety and fear, often appears repeatedly and has a detailed memory of the dream content. This dream experience is very vivid, and often involves content that threatens survival, safety or self-esteem. There is autonomic nerve excitement during the attack, but there is no obvious sound or limb movement. Once he wakes up, his alertness and sense of direction will soon recover.
Nightmares are nightmares. As far as the word "Yan" is concerned, Xu Shen said in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Yan is also a dream." The word garden is interpreted as "an ominous sign in sleep" and Guang Yun simply interpreted it as "a nightmare". I often scream and moan because I seem to see or encounter terrible things in my dreams. This kind of dream is very exciting for 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, playing in the palm of their hands; Or chased 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 tried to escape, my legs seemed to be tied behind someone's hands. I couldn't escape, so I was helpless, breathless and almost suffocated. When I am about to wake up, I often feel that my body and limbs are hard to move, as if I were tied up by something. After many twists and turns, I finally woke up. By this time, I was already in a cold sweat, and my three souls had been scared away. Some dreamers think that this is caused by the oppression of the dreamer's soul.
Nightmares occur in rem sleep with dreams. Because rapid eye movement sleep accounts for a high proportion in the second half of the night, the frequency of nightmares is higher in the second half of the night. At that time, the heartbeat and breathing may be accelerated, but there will be no obvious spontaneous 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.
The cause of nightmares
Nightmares have both external physical stimulation and internal psychological trauma. External factors, nightmares are mostly covered with a quilt to sleep, or hand pressure on the chest. When people sleep, the activity ability of heart and lungs is relatively weakened, so when the mouth and nostrils are blocked by quilts or the chest is compressed, they will feel that their heart activity is blocked and they have difficulty breathing. This kind of stimulation from the outside quickly spread to the cerebral cortex, causing incorrect reactions, so nightmares were born. Some people see ghosts pouncing on themselves in their dreams, trying to eat themselves, so they want to struggle and shout, but the part of the brain that commands muscle movements and sounds 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 shout, but I can't make a sound. In addition, some people suffer from some chronic diseases, such as chronic tonsillitis, chronic rhinitis and chronic bronchitis. These diseases often have the problem of poor breathing, so it is easy to have nightmares during sleep.
Judging 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 by them in their early years is suppressed by reason, and it is difficult to "talk" freely. When people fall asleep, reason loses its authoritative role and consciousness weakens. The subconscious 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 "Youxi Temple": "Wandering in the waves has become 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 some things that dreamers are afraid of in childhood, which can be traced back to the childhood when people can't help themselves. Children aged three to six are most likely to have nightmares. Once an adult feels that his safety is not guaranteed, or remembers some frightening and disturbing things in the past, he may also have nightmares.
Are nightmares really ghosts?
Nightmares are hard, but when you are awake, you can't make a sound, and you can't move your limbs, just like a soul is attached to a corpse. Not only that, at this time, the brain will be eager to fall asleep, people will fall asleep irresistibly, their eyes will gradually turn black and their consciousness will be blurred. But at this time, out of the desire for consciousness and the instinct of fear of nightmares, people try to get rid of nightmares and wake up immediately, but they can't get up because they can'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 seen aliens and communicated with them, and used a lie detector when telling that experience, eliminating 70% rumors. In the survey of hundreds of other 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 in the bedroom, while others claimed that they were invited to talk in a alien ufo.
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 have nightmares and hallucinations. Researchers say that the hallucinations in nightmares, that is, when you are half asleep and half awake, are extremely real, 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 close encounters of the third kind's information in their daily lives, and longed for contact 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, that is, thinking during the day and dreaming at night. Some people have nightmares and hallucinate, then go back to sleep and start dreaming. The content of the dream is probably information related to that illusion. For example, you have a ghost illusion, and the ghost finds you awake and leans over to you, and then what happens and 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 claim to have seen ghosts when they are overwhelmed by ghosts, because there has always been a deep ghost culture in our China tradition. The ancients interpreted the fear of the unknown as a ghost. Modern people understand ghosts through stories, books and movies they heard as children, and ghosts in these contents are usually more horrible. Over time, I am used to associating what I am afraid of with ghosts. So you will be afraid when you have nightmares, and then you will have ghost hallucinations.
The so-called "ghost pressure" is just a folk superstition. There is definitely no real ghost on the bed, nor is it haunted. In fact, it suffers from sleep disorder. The phenomenon of "ghost crushing the body" belongs to a symptom of sleep paralysis in sleep neurology. At this time, the patient is half awake and half asleep, and the amplitude of brain waves is also awake. Some people will also have 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 put on a golden bell jar, which is what most people call it.
Since ghosts have nothing to do with ghosts, how do you explain nightmares?
When people are sleeping, their brains are in a dormant state, and they will dream in half. Many people know that during sleep, deep sleep and shallow sleep alternate constantly. When the brain sleeps lightly, people will dream; When you are asleep, you are completely unconscious and feel that you are in the deep sea without light. Under normal circumstances, people wake up from a shallow sleep. When you wake up from a deep sleep, the possibility of having 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 to vent, but you can't move, even if you miss bite the tongue. The explanation of nightmares is as simple as that, but it is no different from stroke patients. Because a part of the brain is still asleep, and the awake part continues to sleep under the influence, it will produce irresistible drowsiness. In this process of half-dreaming and half-waking, what people think at this time is very easy to be projected into hallucinations, 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.
Knowing the nightmare, I hope you don't feel too afraid of it, and don't leave any shadow in your heart because of the hallucinations caused by previous nightmares.
How to prevent and solve nightmares
Mainly to develop a healthy lifestyle and ensure adequate sleep.
Also, drink less water before going to bed and don't force yourself when you don't want to sleep. Because you may have nightmares when you fall asleep, but the probability of hallucinations is relatively low.
The correct sleeping position is also very important. Generally, people who have nightmares like to sleep upside down, that is, with their chests down and their heads covered. Lying on your back, being covered with a thick quilt or putting your hands on your chest, being too nervous during the day and overeating at dinner are all the reasons for nightmares. Sleep on your side and avoid the above reasons, so you won't have nightmares.
There are several ways to wake yourself up when you have nightmares. It is almost impossible to do things with your hands and feet in a nightmare, but you can try shaking your head.
Also, don't sleep there motionless after waking up, you may have nightmares again. It's best to turn on the light and get up immediately, drink some water, sit down and go back to sleep when your mind is clear.
Traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis
Nightmare refers to screaming or hallucinations during sleep, and the body is heavily pressed, unable to move, unable to breathe, panic, chest tightness and suffocation, which are common clinical symptoms. Its occurrence is related to physical weakness, fatigue, anemia, hypotension and emotional factors such as depression, anger and anger.
Because people's blood pressure is further reduced during sleep, it leads to cardiac and cerebral ischemia and reduced oxygen supply, and the motor center of cerebral cortex enters the inhibitory state before the sensory center; Or it is because peripheral nerves enter a state of inhibition faster than central nerves, resulting in nightmares of wakefulness and motor paralysis.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that nightmares are caused by deficiency of both qi and blood, poor circulation of qi and blood, qi stagnation and blood stasis, and obstruction of meridians. Therefore, for the prevention and treatment of nightmares, we should first pay attention to strengthening nutrition, enhancing physical fitness, preventing excessive fatigue, treating anemia, and avoiding negative emotions such as depression, anger and anger. For patients with hypotension, 20 grams of Radix Astragali, Radix Codonopsis, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Radix Glycyrrhizae can be decocted in water for half a month. Most patients can recover their blood pressure within a course of treatment.
In addition, the prevention and treatment of nightmares can still be guided. The specific method is to bend your thumb and hold it with the other four fingers. Especially when you fall asleep, you should form a habit and make unremitting efforts to gradually reduce the onset of nightmares.
Children's nightmare
Nightmares are 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, and so on. At that time, they couldn't even think about it, and they couldn't escape. They were often helpless and out of breath. 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 rapid eye movement sleep accounts for a high proportion in the second half of the night, the frequency of nightmares is higher in the second half of the night. At that time, the heartbeat and breathing may be accelerated, but there will be no obvious spontaneous 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 to watch horror movies or listen to horror stories such as ghosts and gods and detectives. Third, sleeping posture is not good, such as putting your hands on your chest. Fourth, respiratory diseases or intestinal parasitic diseases caused by poor breathing. Fifth, overeating and bloating.
The correct way is to eliminate the above related factors, correct bad sleep habits and pay attention to the law of life at ordinary times. Don't use intimidation to educate children, restrict children from watching exciting movies and TV, and don't tell children ghosts and horror novels to avoid their emotional tension. Treat his physical illness in time. Frequent nightmares can be controlled by using a small dose of diazepam in a short time.
The difference between nightmares and night terrors
Night terrors have obvious frightened expressions, strange sounds and autonomic nervous symptoms, such as rapid heartbeat and breathing, sweating, dilated pupils and pallor, which shocked the parents of the children, but I know nothing and have no memory afterwards. A nightmare is when a dreaming child wakes up from a dream and feels very scared, but others can't see any obvious movement. The night scares others, and the nightmare scares yourself.
When a child has nightmares, you can wake him up as soon as possible and comfort him by saying, "This is a dream, not true, don't be afraid." Let him sleep until he is emotionally stable. Generally, medication is not required. Frequent attacks can be taken orally for several nights before going to bed. Avoid watching horror movies and listening to horror stories at ordinary times. Those with psychological pressure and physiological incentives should be treated symptomatically. After removing various factors that induce nightmares, they generally do not recur frequently. In addition, with the increase of age, the onset of nightmares will naturally decrease or stop.