The secret of nightmares

Nightmares are becoming the subject of scientific research to understand the mechanism and find ways to eliminate bad dreams.

Everyone has a certain fear, someone shows, someone always conceals. But when our bodies are relaxed and reasonably relaxed when we go to sleep, that fear starts to rise and haunt the dreams.

The new study by the University of Montreal (Canada) sought to study the parts of the brain that were activated during horrifying nights, and noted the emotional impact of people. In the first large-scale study on the subject, scientists tracked and recorded over 10,000 dreams from 572 volunteers. Those experiences have now become part of the 'dream store' , only the database system saved by the university for further research.

Nightmare often appears from childhood - (Photo: Shutterstock)

What is a nightmare ? According to the scientific definition, these are dreams that make a person awake in fear. Dreams only leave a vague feeling when you wake up not listed as a nightmare but just a 'bad dream'. Until now, the existence of nightmares remains a mystery, according to Professor Antonio Zadra, who studies sleep disorders for the past 20 years. One hypothesis is that dreaming is a state of liberation of residual pressures in daily life, while another hypothesis suspects that they reflect the collapse of the central nervous system. Nightmares tend to start from childhood. They gradually increase in number and intensity until they reach their peak in adulthood. After this period, people dream less and less when they grow older. Women often dream about nightmares more than men, according to dreamscience.com.

Professor Zadra said many people often have nightmares to fear sleep.'Deaths, health problems and threats are the subject of constant nightmares,' said research team leader Geneviève Robert, but it would be a mistake to assume that they occur in every attack. nightmare. Sometimes a person dreams of an owl and suddenly becomes so frightened that he wakes up awake. Men tend to dream about natural disasters, such as floods, fires, earthquakes and wars, while women are often obsessed with their own safety, such as accidents and falls. . According to calculations, most people forget their dreams when they wake up, but there are also people, who account for 5-6% of the world's population, severely affected by late-night dreams.

The University of Montreal researchers reported the good news that it was possible to treat dreams and nightmares, but the subjects had to know how to cope with their fears and practice in their heads.'Through imaginary methods, patients learn to change the layout of nightmares, and replace it with a different perspective, thanks to the ability to self-hypnosis' , according to the report. For example, the dreamer thinks of his image against an attacker, or there is a hero who suddenly rescues a rescue, possibly a superman from heaven falling, in a way that takes illusions of illusion.