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.
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