5 Things That Can Make People's Nightmare

Nightmare can be experienced by anyone both children and adults. This condition can interfere with sleep quality and make it well. Here comes the 5 things that can make people have nightmares.

In the adult lifestyle factors can cause people to have nightmares and fear that appears to continue to survive so that makes it difficult to fall asleep again.

Experts advise if the nightmare that occurs continuously and threatening you should immediately seek medical help. Here are five things that can trigger nightmares, as quoted from Livestrong, Tuesday (03/07/2012), namely:

1. Anxiety and worry

Anxiety, anxiety, stress or tension in the family is the most common cause of people having nightmares as a report published in the Postgraduate Medical Journal, while in children is usually caused by anxiety or fear of sleeping alone can trigger nightmares.

2. Lack of sleep

An article published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry showed that the continuous lack of sleep can cause nightmares, hallucinations, sleep pre horrible to other sleep problems. To make sure that having a regular bedtime to avoid nightmares and healthy body.

3. Fever

Although the mechanism is not known, but when people are sick and fever can cause nightmares. Previously known fever can affect sleep quality and sleep-wake cycle change that does not directly contribute to cause nightmares. Therefore, make sure people are sick and emotional needs are met feel comfortable.

4. Sleeping in a strange place

Review of Mayoclinic find some people experience difficulty sleeping and nightmares when I have to sleep in a place that is not unusual or strange, such as staying with a friend, in a strange hotel room, jetlag and emotional exhaustion caused by long journeys.

5. Mental instability

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found that adults who have nightmares are more likely to have a history of mental problems or psychopathology. If nightmares occur infrequently should begin to notice physical and emotional health.

Beware asleep in front of the tv

TV stays on when the owner is asleep can increase the risk of depression. Not because the thought of a bloated electricity bills because the TV is on all night, but because light triggers changes in the brain.

The bright light emitted by the TV screen to give the same effect as sleeping in a bright room conditions. This condition is often associated with risk of breast cancer and obesity, but is still frequently associated with psychological health.

Recent research at Ohio State University indicate that bright light during sleep can lead to mental disorders, especially depression. The reason, one of the components of a biological clock that works on light dark difference in disorder because of the bright light during sleep.

Bright light during sleep also affect the brain, particularly in the hippocampus, which regulates emotions. In addition, the brain also produces more compounds Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) causes inflammation which is also associated with risk of depression.

These new findings are based on the results of experiments in hamsters, which are conditioned to sleeping in bright conditions because of the cage were given continuous light illumination. Compared to other hamsters were given an opportunity to sleep in a dark room, the hamster test more stress.

Signs of stress were observed, among others, to be less active than others, as well as loss of appetite for food or drinks that contain lots of sugar. In humans, this represents a loss of appetite, although there is good food.

"Observations on the hamster is very consistent with what we know as the symptoms of depression in humans," said Tracy Bedrosian who published the findings in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, as quoted from the Huffingtonpost,