Named for several reasons.
Scientists have identified several reasons why people at night having nightmares.
The researchers identified several main reasons for bad dreams.
Cause nightmares can various medications, quite common and often prescribed by doctors. They affect chemical reactions in the brain, which causes frightening visions. The “culprits” bad dreams can be antidepressants, blood pressure medication, Parkinson’s disease and even antibiotics.
To provoke vivid images in dreams and even hallucinations capable of temperature changes, which occur in cases such as flu or colds. During REM sleep the body can not control body temperature, as a result of her leap becomes the “author” of a nightmare.
To influence body temperature and, consequently, REM sleep capable and spicy foods. Psychiatrists confirm that the sleep cycles are being violated because of heavy or spicy food that the body is difficult to digest. Among the influencing sleep are also called dairy products, fat and chemical components.
Nightmares are waiting and those who have not calculated with alcohol. It is known that, for example, a small glass of wine or mug of beer can improve night sleep. But if one night you drink several types of alcoholic beverages, he faces frequent awakenings and reduced sleep time. Because of these violations lose sleep phase and shortens the transition from one to the other, which causes vivid, sometimes frightening dreams. Also alcohol can cause fluctuations in body temperature.
Among the causes of nightmares — diabetes and hypoglycemia, that is low in sugar, or rather glucose, in the blood. It would seem that these reasons are mutually exclusive, but in fact they are connected. Directly nightmares causing hypoglycemia. Diabetics, blood sugar levels are promoted, struggling with it with the help of insulin. And unreasonably high dose it leads to a dangerous decrease in sugar level, and hence the night season.
Closes the list of pregnancy. Vivid and disturbing dreams, some women see in the last stages of pregnancy. According to scientists, this method uses their subconscious mind to deal with increasing anxiety and fear of childbirth. There is also a view that the strange dreams during pregnancy are one of the types of mental process that helps expectant mother to deal with the upcoming parenthood and to prepare for future changes.
