How to diagnose the disease through dreams

Not only is it astrologically significant, dreams are still being considered as a source of important clues about your health and even given early warning years before symptoms The disease manifests itself out.

Nightmare

Potential causes: beta inhibitors, heart disease, headache or lack of sleep

According to Professor Jim Horne, a sleep expert from Loughborough University (UK), beta blockers used to treat blood pressure have long been considered the culprits for scary dreams. These common drugs help expand blood vessels, but experts say they can also indirectly alter the balance of certain chemicals in the brain, triggering nightmares.

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Bad dreams may also be linked to heart instability, according to a study of more than 6,000 people published in the Dutch Journal of Medicine. This may be because people with heart disease are more likely to experience respiratory problems, lowering the amount of oxygen in the brain.

A study also found that nightmares may also be a warning sign of imminent migraine or a lack of sleep, which causes changes in our brains.

Dream more than usual

Potential causes: being too hot or too cold at night, hormones, chronic pain or stopping taking antidepressants

According to experts, most of us experience 4 to 6 dreams every night but can only remember about 2-3 dreams per week. However, overheating or cold feeling at night can make us dream more. Experts recommend that you set the bedroom temperature to about 21 degrees C.

For the same reason, abnormal fluctuations in hormones in women can also make women dream more often than usual, especially around the time of their periods.

Insomnia and chronic pain can make people constantly wake up in the night and that also means they remember more about their dreams.

This phenomenon can also occur when a patient stops taking antidepressant drugs. This is because many such drugs can significantly reduce the duration of a dream sleep.

Dream of being attacked

Potential causes: Alzheimer's or Parkinson's

Dr. Nicholas Oscroft, sleep specialist at Papworth Hospital (UK), said scary role-playing dreams in which you were attacked or chased, may be an early warning sign of a brain disease. or nerves like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.

This phenomenon is believed to stem from damage in the brain region that controls our dream's "safety switch" , which leads to dreams that are sometimes violent and cause anxiety and even make people sleep dreamy. kick or hurt yourself and your partner. In the case of Alzheimer's disease, this phenomenon even appears before other symptoms, such as dementia, occur up to 10 years.

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Sexual dream

Potential causes: enhance creativity

Dreams related to sex often occur at any age, but will increase as we get older and are especially popular at age over 60. Surprisingly, researchers discover In fact, this phenomenon does not actually express anything about the subject's sex life, but is related to the rising level of creativity.

Dream to wake you up early

Potential causes: A diet high in fat, Overweight, stress or depression.

Full, high-fat meals tend to stay in your stomach longer. This will increase the pressure on the valve between the stomach and esophagus, and may cause food and stomach acid to reflux, causing heartburn. This usually happens in the first few hours after you get very sleepy and is more likely to make you wake up early at night, during the dream period.

The above acid reflux phenomenon is also common in overweight people, because excess fat puts pressure on the valve between the stomach - esophagus and weakens it.

Statistics show that people who are stressed or depressed seem to be entering the dream phase much earlier and waking up earlier at night. So far, the scientific world has not yet explained the cause of this phenomenon.