We are so often talking in this column of dreams and that these dreams are us. Why not talk about the absence of sleep? And that insomnia is we?
Sleep is the key to the successful functioning of the psyche. And how it turns out that the body acts as if against herself. Insomnia isolating and depletes the psyche and body. Why we do not sleep.
This article focus on the biological aspects of this problem.
Many thousand years ago, our ancestors could fall asleep, making sure that the dream in this place would be safe. During sleep, no one will be attacked by enemies or predators.
In an evolutionary sense, it is not to sleep - it means that it is not to trust the surrounding environment, to be in stress. Perhaps now it is not a saber-toothed tiger, but unstable earnings. But for our brain there is no difference in these threats, it continues to stay in combat mode, ready to fight or run at any time. In such a situation, not to sleep.
If you suffer from insomnia, think Are you protected enough?
There is another aspect, familiar, first of all, women. Little Child Care - This is a special stage. From uneven embrozing crumbs, a woman can easily wake up, but not hear at the same moment of salute explosions outside the window or signaling machine. The brain of the woman is also in a kind of high ready-to-answer any impulse of a small child. Such a dream is restored by itself, especially if the woman does not interfere with his reflections that she is a bad mother and is to blame for everything, rests more and take care of themselves.
If you have insomnia, then there are reasons for her
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And now, perhaps, The most difficult aspect. Insomnia often does not happen herself and in the same place. Insomnia, and not only she is a sign of pronounced or still naked for his carrier depression. For example, a person decides that something significant in life is not in life, and he is guilty of it, but can not fix it. Then the ideal solution of the brain is not to sleep until he find a good solution. But the fact is that depression is not a situational thing, this reaction is not at all for a separately taken project in which something is wrong. This is a reaction to the loss of some very significant part of life. For example, this can happen to the death of a loved one, or with dismissal from work, or with a rupture of relationships. So simply it is not "replete." But the biologically, our brain does not again make differences between complex and simple, finding the "faithful" solution - not to sleep until you change the situation for the better.
Sometimes a person does not bind the happening drama and its emotional state with an insomnia developed later. Therefore, people try to fight insomnia separately.
Unquesting, what option did you find?
In addition to jokes, the latter requires special attention and help of specialists. Do not delay, believing that "will pass by". And strong sleep you.
And send examples of your dreams by mail: [email protected]. By the way, dreams are much easier to express if in a letter to the editor you will write preceding life circumstances, but most importantly - feelings and thoughts at the time of awakening from this dream.
Maria Dyachkova, PSYCHOLOGIST, Family therapist and leading trainings of personal growth Training center Marika Khazin