Januari 11, 2017
10. causes and meanings it is thought that guilt, sadness, and confusionare the causes of nightmares, rather than fear. quite a few nightmares are also linkedto feelings of anxiety. when your teeth fall out, it could represent the fact that youare anxious about how others judge your personal appearance. storms show a feeling of a lackof control, and if you miss a big event in a dream, it could mean that you are anxiousabout failing in something. dreams tend to be more negative than positive in nature.this is thought to be an evolutionary trait that allows our brains to work through negativeemotions or problems that we face, helping us build psychological defenses.
09. hallucinations hypnagogic hallucinations happen in the momentsbetween wakefulness and sleep. they cause you to hear voices, feel phantom sensations,or even see strange people in the room. people have often reported seeing animals or insectscrawling up their walls. even though they are technically dreams, these hallucinationshave a profound effect on people, as they are indistinguishable from reality. many artists,writers, and scientists have stated that hypnagogia increased their creativity. salvador dali,isaac newton, nikola tesla, and beethoven mentioned it. even some alien close encounterexperiences have stemmed from the hallucinatory lights and sleep paralysis experienced inthis state.
08. sleep paralysis how scared would you be if you woke up inyour room to feel something beside you, or had it on top of you, crushing the breathfrom your body? and when you try to move you realize your whole body is paralyzed, everymuscle lifeless. the panic that sleep paralysis causes cannot be underestimated. it occurswhen your brain wakes up, aware of the rem cycle of sleep being over, but your musclesremain asleep and unresponsive to your brain’s commands. the choking presence common in sleepparalysis was called the ‘mare’ in northern european folklore. linked to the succubus[suck-you-bus] and incubus [in-kew-bus], she was known for riding people in their sleep,crushing their chests and trying to strangle
them. and this is where we get the word ‘nightmare’from. 07. night terrors night terrors cause a dreaming person to sitbolt upright, with their eyes wide open, yelling and screaming, as they are still trapped intheir nightmare. the person will sometimes act out their dream, kicking and punching,or trying to run away as if being attacked by something. people have caused injury tothemselves and others through their actions in this state. in 1943 joan kiger began fendingoff ‘shadowy figures’ during a night terror, and while sleepwalking she shot and killedher father and 6-year-old brother. william pollard, a known sleepwalker, dreamed he wasbeing attacked, only to awake and see that
he had bludgeoned his daughter to death witha flashlight. 06. a nightmarish warning it has been found that certain people, whoact out their nightmares by kicking and screaming, could be suffering from the early stages ofbrain disorders. the violent dreams are a form of warning from the brain. in a studyof 27 people suffering from a disorder that caused strong violent nightmares, 13 developeddementia, 12 parkinson’s disease, 1 parkinson’s dementia, and 1 person multiple system atrophy,a similar disease to parkinson’s. so if you suffer from bad dreams often, then itmay be a worrying sign. 05. sudden unexpected nocturnal death
when members of the hmong [mong] people inlaos suddenly started dying in their sleep, they started their own mythology of ‘dabtsuam’ [da cho]: a jealous hag-like woman that would sit on their chests, stopping themfrom breathing. it is now known that a genetic irregular heartbeat that couldn’t be detectedearlier was responsible for their deaths. however, it is also thought that because thehmong believed so fiercely in the dab tsuam, this would cause them to have night terrorsabout the woman, which would put such a strain on their heart that it would set off theirgenetic defect. this would kill them in their sleep, seemingly without explanation. theseevents inspired the classic horror film “a nightmare on elm streetâ€.
04. deadly premonitions imagine you had a dream in which you died.now imagine if the next day’s events around you started to follow those of your nightmare.there are numerous unexplained cases of nightmare premonitions. abraham lincoln dreamed of walkinginto a room in the white house where a corpse was being guarded, and the guards told himit was the president, who had been assassinated. this was just days before he was shot andkilled. 9/11 victims spoke out about nightmares of a terrorist attack, and there were 19 precognitivedreams about the titanic sinking. one titanic ticket-holder, mr. middleton, had recurringdreams of a huge vapor eaten by the waves, with the sea around full of struggling people.
03. inspirational nightmares it is not unknown for nightmares to inspirepeople. elias howe had a nightmare in which he was chased by cannibals carrying spears.these spears became the basis for the design of the needle in the first sewing machinethat he invented. mary shelley's ‘frankenstein’ and robert louis stevenson's jekyll and hydewere both based on the respective authors’ nightmares. sharon carr, britain’s youngestfemale murderer, was inspired by violent dreams. she stated “every night i see the devilin my dreams - sometimes even in my mirror, but i realise it was just me.†at the ageof 12 she stabbed a hairdresser 29 times. 02. video game dreamers
it has been found that gamers are more likelyto take control of their nightmares. a study has shown that the huge amount of time somegamers spend in virtual reality trains their brains to respond differently in nightmares.they are more likely to have lucid dreams, turning scary situations into fun ones. ithas also been shown that gamers are less likely to have aggressive dreams, but when put ina fight or flight scenario they will often stand and fight. while gamers may dream aggressivelyless often, when they do so, they will often have hyper-violence way beyond that of a non-gamer’snightmare. 01. false awakenings a false awakening is when in your dream youthink you have woken up. you get out of bed,
brush your teeth, and go about your businessuntil you realize you are still asleep, or you wake up properly. one false awakeningis nothing scary, however they can happen multiple times. the famous philosopher bertrandrussell claimed to have gone through around a hundred false awakenings when coming outof the sleep following a general anesthetic. it’s a disturbing thought that you couldexperience the feeling of waking up again and again until you are no longer sure thatwhat you are experiencing is real.
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