Nightmares or Night Terrors

Nightmares or Night Terrors

A nightmare is an unpleasant dream that causes strong negative emotions from the mind. The dream may contain situations from physical terror, danger, discomfort and psychological terror. Everyone gets nightmares once in a while, from kids to adults.

When a person sleeps his/her brain does not just switch off. It goes through several stages of sleep including the Rapid Eye Movement sleep. People may wonder why they call it Rapid Eye Movement. The reason is that, during this stage, the eyes move forth and back while under the closed eyelids. During the stage of REM, a person dreams and those dreams can be very upsetting or scary.

It has been researched that every 90 minutes the brain switches between REM sleep stage and non-REM sleep. Towards the morning, the amount of REM sleep increases. If a person awoke during this stage, there is a possibility of remembering what he/she was dreaming about. Most vivid dreams happen in the early hours of the morning.

Why do you get nightmares?

Stressful things that occurred during the day can cause dreams to turn into nightmares. Nightmares can be a way of dealing with events that happen the previous day. A parent or guardian should help children deal with things that kids have had to face during the day such as problems at school, stress from schoolwork, and also problems that they face at home. Changes in a person’s life such as moving, illness or death of loved one might stress a person which may cause nightmares.

Another major cause of nightmares is: watching horror/scary movies, or reading scary books just before you sleep, a high fever or certain medications.

Nightmares may also happen for no reason at all.

Prevention of nightmares

It is normal to have nightmares once in a while. Techniques that parents can use  to reduce nightmares:

• Getting into a healthy sleep routine.
• Sleeping with a favourite blanket or a stuffed toy, it may help kids feel more secure.
• Keeping the door open or a light on can help a child remember that his/her family is close by.

Natural Treatment for Nightmares

OrionRemedies has a natural remedy that deals with Nightmares or Night Terrors called BadDream Twinkles. It’s a granular based Homeopathic Remedy which has a pleasant taste (so no reason for children to turn their noses up at it) and is generally quite palatable and easier to administer. The Homeopathic formulation means it’s safe for all ages and doesn’t work to stop creativity but rather reduces the intensity that some creative imaginings can progress too.

Website: http://www.orionremedies.com/
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Don’t leave your little-one Frightened with “Halloweenly” Ghosts and Ghouls Lurking around every Street Corner

With Halloween just around the corner, who knows what kind of creatures will make their way out of the woodwork! Ooooohhhh, I can’t personally wait but I know quite a couple of small people that will be screaming in fear come the 31^st of October…

Children are often thought to have one of the most creative and yet influential minds with vivid imaginings an adult could only dream of… then there’s the intensity a child attaches to that vision; even a tiny ant isn’t freed from being a potential 12 legged, scissor mouthed, carnivorous 20 foot monster hiding in our closets waiting to pounce…

Wow, now I’m having nightmares but not for myself, rather for the damage that kind of monster would inflict on my shoe collection in my closet….

So is there any help I would recommend for the hallow season? Yes, there is, a product recently produced by OrionRemedies called BadDream Twinkles. It’s a granular based Homeopathic Remedy which has a pleasant taste (so no more turning up of noses) and is generally quite palatable and easier to administer. The Homeopathic formulation means it’s safe for all ages and doesn’t work to stop creativity but rather reduces the intensity that some creative imaginings can progress too.

This awesome remedy can be found online at http://www.orionremedies.com/remedies/BadDream_Twinkles.aspx

So if I don’t post before the fateful all-hallows-eve, a very ghostly and fun fill night I wish for all and of course, a peaceful and pleasant night for the young ones.