Nightmares and Night Terrors
Most Montrealers complain they do not get enough sleep. Yet, sleep affects our physical and mental health. Not having enough sleep affects our mood, our stamina, our home-life and career, and our social relationships.
Sleep is an important human function which is essential for good physical health and good mental health. Even though sleep is so important many Montrealers take sleeping for granted. They either sleep too much or more often than not, sleep less than is recommended for good health. Montrealers will catnap rather than sleep, burn the midnight oil studying, play on the computer, or just insist that they are too busy too sleep.
Conditions that affect sleep, our health, and mental health include such topics as nightmares and bad dreams. For help in the Montreal area for sleep disorders in Montreal click here:
Mount Sinai Hospital Sleep Center
Contrary to popular belief nightmares and night terrors, also known as sleep terrors, are not the same thing. The symptoms may sound the same, but they actually occur during different phases of the sleep cycle. Nightmares occur during rem sleep or the dream stage of sleep, while night terrors occur during the 4th stage of the non-dream sleep cycle.
The sleep terrors occurs about an hour after an adult has gone to sleep.
Young children will generally have a night terror about 90 minutes into the sleeping process. Night terrors are most common in young children who are between the ages of three to six but adults can have night terrors as well.
Symptoms of night terrors in adults
The symptoms of night terrors include: rapid heart rate, sweating, screaming, kicking, thrashing, sweating, wide-eyed staring, vague images of scary things in the room, spiders, snakes, and other frightening shadows and images. They may also get a sense that someone is in the room, yet they are not fully awake Since they are wide-eyed, dreamers are often mistaken for being awake.
Dreamers are not easily woken from the night terror either. They are very scared and anxious during a night terror and are not easily comforted by a love one even afterward. Sufferers of night terrors have difficulty explaining the images and do not remember them the following day. However, they can remember parts of their dreams that night
People who have nightmares usually remember their nightmares the following day.
Source:
http://www.better-sleep-better-life.com/night-terrors.html
Published by Carol Roach
Carol Roach holds a masters in counselling psychology. She worked as a therapist at the Douglas Hospital in Montreal before becoming a professional writer.Carol is the author of the book Picking Up The Piece... View profile
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