Nightmares are caused by transient cerebral ischemia during sleep (about 25% ~ 40% patients with transient cerebral ischemia will have severe cerebral infarction within 5 years). When people have transient cerebral ischemia during the day, they will have terrible symptoms such as dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness, black eyes, tinnitus and various neurological disorders. Therefore, people who are weak and prone to cerebral ischemia, people who have excessive fears, people who take quinidine and cause hypotension, and people who suffer from neck flexion and poor blood flow due to excessive pillows or improper sleeping posture during sleep will have a terrible nightmare called a nightmare in medicine when they sleep deeply at night. Shallow sleep can cause inexplicable panic, which is also commonly known as ghost pressure. Sometimes, people wake up from cerebral ischemia, and the visual and motor disorders that last for a few minutes are not over, which can also cause people to struggle to wake up, but they can't wake up. For example, there is a "haunted" bed in the countryside, which can make people have nightmares every night, which is caused by the high pillow. Because the nightmares or ghosts during sleep are mostly related to the neck flexion oppression caused by the high pillow or improper sleeping position during sleep. Therefore, when people have nightmares or ghost beds, they can lift the ghost's body by trying to move their necks, which has scientific basis and effective methods. Patients who often have nightmares or have ghosts may wish to have a try. When people are highly nervous during the day, they will be scared by very small sounds. People sometimes have nightmares because they suddenly seem to hear some kind of loud noise during the process of constantly changing their sleeping positions because of mental stress. This loud noise is obviously caused by the friction between the ear and the pillow when people change their sleeping positions. This kind of "loud noise" that has been neglected for a long time during sleep sometimes becomes very terrible when you are nervous. Abnormal heartbeat or cardiac function during the day can cause cerebral ischemia, and abnormal heartbeat or cardiac function at night can also cause cerebral ischemia. The specific dream is a simple palpitation nightmare of being chased or falling in the air, and then a nightmare (namely cerebral ischemia) occurs. For another example, sleeping pills can treat the nightmares of neurasthenia patients, because the nightmares of such patients are caused by tachycardia. Sleeping pills can slow down the heartbeat, but the slow heartbeat sometimes causes cerebral ischemia in people with low blood pressure. So sometimes using sleeping pills to treat nightmares is not only ineffective, but will aggravate the patient's condition (unfortunately, almost all doctors in China are still using sleeping pills to treat nightmare patients, regardless of the specific cause). Because the blood vessels around heaven and man expand more in summer than in winter, and the blood pressure of heaven and man is lower in summer, it is more prone to cerebral ischemia (for example, people who stand for too long or squat and suddenly stand up are prone to cerebral ischemia), so people are more likely to have nightmares or ghosts when they sleep in summer. In addition, people will have cerebral ischemic syncope due to strong fear during the day. When people are sleeping, they will also have nightmares or ghosts because of dreams of strong fear caused by simple palpitations. When people have transient cerebral ischemia during the day, they will only have terrible symptoms such as dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness, black eyes and various neurological disorders. In severe cases, there will be symptoms such as sweating, pallor, dilated pupils and even fainting due to loss of consciousness. When people have transient cerebral ischemia during sleep, the same mild symptoms will only produce terrible dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness, black eyes and various neurological disorders.
Ways to deal with nightmares
1. When a nightmare happens, you can hardly move your hands and feet, but you can try to shake your head. I have practiced shaking my head 90 degrees and moving my limbs slightly now. And don't sleep in the place where the nightmare happened just now after waking up, it is likely to happen again. It's best to turn on the light, get up, drink some water, sit down and go back to sleep when your mind is clear.
You can listen to music after waking up, and you will never have nightmares again. I still hope everyone will have a sweet dream at night!
When you have nightmares, you can't move all over, but one thing is possible, and that is grinding your teeth. As long as you grind your teeth, you will wake up immediately.
When a nightmare happens, you can wake up from it by breathing hard and breathing as fast as possible. Health is related to physical weakness, fatigue, anemia, low blood pressure 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.