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Disturbing dreams

"Recently, I often have dreams nightmares. I wake up and then long I can not get rid of bad feelings. Does it mean anything? " Elena Zhukova, Moscow Advises professor, deputy director of Moscow's Institute of Psychiatry, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in Moscow, Alexey Bobrov. It is understandable that people are afraid of bad dreams. After all, being a very impressive remembered best, and leave an unpleasant sensation. During the night people can see a couple of dreams, the most different. And as far as bright and emotional will be a dream, and partly depends on the so-called sleep phase in which the person resides at the time of the dream. Among all the stages of sleep is especially important are two: REM and slow wave sleep. In the slow phase of the brain is almost not working. Metabolism is minimal, breathing slowly and deeply. Awakened in this state, people rarely remember dreams. The transition from slow wave sleep to rapid rather otchetliv. During REM sleep pupils under serried centuries make active movements, almost as during wakefulness. Breathing becomes more frequent and intermittent. The brain consumes as much energy as in the daytime. Dreams and nightmares more often than it is in this phase. And after ten minutes of REM sleep a person can wake up, remembering the dream and move to the slow phase. During the night a man going through about six sleep cycles, each of which can last up to two hours. Often people think that dreamed a bad dream necessarily portend trouble. In fact, it's not quite true. Disturbed sleep - is primarily a signal of some kind of personal anxiety person, while the existing one. This may be some emotional experience associated with an unresolved problem. There may be anxiety caused by waiting for some changes. Moving an exam, changing jobs, new relationships, troubles in the family - all because of what people can survive, can cause unpleasant dreams. By the way, excessive tiredness or fatigue may also cause such a dream. On this dream man is always wakes up and feels very real fear. In psychiatry, such dreams are classified as "domestic." There are other categories of nightmares. They may be accompanied by shouting or weeping. From such a dream a person can not wake up and do not even remember it. Special significance have recurring dreams. You can often hear the complaint: "I am tormented by the same nightmare." The problem here, too, in personal experiences. The most difficult category disturbing dreams - is Poststress sleep disorder. They arise after previous heavy events. In the dream float pictures of real incidents, which considerably amazed man. There are nightmares, which are a consequence of an illness such as depression. But here, of course, cause a deeper and more complicated. And to overcome this fear a person can not, without calling upon the methods of psychotherapy.