Nightmares are a fairly well-known phenomenon, both among children and among adults. They penetrate our dreams, inspire terror, make us break free from the embrace of morpheus in cold sweat, jump out of bed, and sometimes even scream. And such phenomena cannot pass without leaving a trace and affect health. The nervous system takes the first blow: a person becomes irritable, does not get enough sleep, the quality of life as a whole decreases sharply.
Terrible dreams are different: someone dreams of how he is late for the bus, someone - how a maniac kills him. And all these nightmares have the same effect: we feel horror and fear and remember these dreams down to the smallest detail. But can a person never get rid of this most unpleasant phenomenon?
Are all means useless? But no. Experts from various universities around the world have identified the causes of nightmares and ways to regain a full night's rest. So, let's begin
First, stress is the root cause of these dreams. Every day we are faced with external stimuli: a queue at the hospital, an angry boss, some kind of life change, divorce or relocation. And all this is reflected in our dreams. Also, the appearance of nightmares is also influenced by truly difficult events that happened to a person, for example, in childhood: for example, he was once subjected to violence, saw a murder with his own eyes, his parents abandoned him.
The second reason for nightmares is certain foods. Spicy and fatty foods especially affect the brain. Spicy food increases metabolism, activates the brain, and therefore, if you eat such food before bedtime, the brain will continue to work actively, which will ease the path of nightmares into your life. Fatty foods also negatively affect sleep.
The third cause of bad dreams is alcohol. In small doses, it promotes drowsiness, but if you overuse certain drinks, nightmares will take over your dreams again.
The fourth reason for the appearance of this unpleasant phenomenon is certain medications that somehow affect the brain. It can be all sorts of antidepressants, drugs, barbiturates. Such side effects have, for example, the drug Lariam against malaria and Ketamine, which is used as anesthesia.
And the final chord of the appearance of nightmares is illness, which is accompanied by fever and fever. Therefore, patients with acute respiratory viral infections or influenza most often have unpleasant dreams.
These are perhaps the most common causes of nightmares. Try to analyze the past day, after which you had a bad dream, and then you can determine what is the source of your bad dreams.
