Nightmare Disorder

According to the American Sleep Association (ASA), stress and lack of sleep is the main trigger nightmares. In the case of a serious nightmare, counseling or sedation is required to calm the anxiety that underlies nightmare.

Sleepwalk

Up to 15 percent of adults, sometimes get up and running in sleep around the house. Even in children, the numbers are higher. No one knows what causes people to sleepwalk, but the stress and insomnia are considered as a contributing factor. Genetic factors such as kinship ties 10 times more likely to have walked in his sleep.

Night Terror

Screaming, pacing frantically, flailing during sleep is a characteristic of night terrors.

Unlike nightmares, which occur during REM sleep. Night terrors occur during non-REM sleep, usually early in the evening. They most often occur in children. People in the midst of terror suddenly sat up straight, and eyes open even though they are not really taking in the sights. People often shout or scream, and can not be awakened or comforted. In some cases, night terrors is similar to sleepwalking. Some parents have reported their children roam the house in a panic. According to the National Institutes of Health, after 10 or 15 minutes, people usually settles back to sleep,. Most do not remember anything about the episode the next day.

The cause of night terrors is a mystery, but fever, irregular sleep and stress are considered as the trigger. Fortunately according to ASA, terror usually fade with the passing ages.

Drowsiness Hallucinations

Hallucinations associated with sleep most commonly occurs in people with narcolepsy. So the arrival of an occasional fantasy need not worry. But the hallucinations are accompanied by daytime sleepiness and loss of muscle control when excited or surprised, then Kline suggest you see a doctor.

Exploding Head Syndrome

Exploding Head Syndrome is not really blow up skull. These disorders occur during deep sleep and suddenly people are shocked and awakened by a loud noise. For patients with this disorder feel an explosion coming right in the head or skull but does not cause pain and are harmless. Doctors do not know what caused the syndrome's head explode, but they know that it is not associated with serious illness.

Sleep Paralysis

During REM sleep, dream activity ramps and automatic body muscles become immobile. This temporary paralysis makes us trying to get out of dreams and hurting ourselves. Sometimes the paralysis persisted, despite being awake.

Worse, sleep paralysis is often associated with the number 7 on our list of hallucinations. In one study published in the Journal of Sleep Research 1999, 75 percent of students who have experienced sleep paralysis simultaneously reported hallucinations. And these hallucinations occur during sleep paralysis. Generally people feel the presence of evil, along with the feelings that were destroyed or strangled. Newfoundlanders refer to it as "Old Hag." In China called "the ghost who hit you". In Indonesia called supernatural beings have a cramp. And in Mexico, it is known by the phrase "subirse el muerto" (dead people rising above you).

REM Behavior Disorder

REM behavior disorder is most common in adults, and can be a symptom of Parkinson's disease, a degenerative nerve disorder. Doctors usually treat the disorder with drugs that reduce REM sleep and keeps the body relaxed.

Eating In Sleep Condition

The disorder is less understandable, but, like walking in his sleep, it occurred during non-REM sleep. Doctors say that drugs that increase dopamine is a neurotransmitter associated with happiness and pleasure that can help stop the habit of eating at night in a sleep state.

Sexsomnia

Most research on sexsomnia still small-scale case study. Largest study was an Internet survey of 219 people who say they experience sleep sex but limited based on self-reports. Nevertheless, the study published in 2007 in the Journal of Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, showed that lack of sleep, stress, alcohol, drugs and physical contact with the pair played a role. But no one knows why some people respond to these triggers with sexual behavior.

Insomnia

Perhaps the previous nine sleep disorders make you to rethink the meaning of sleep Insomnia is the inability to sleep or keep awake so that it can cause irritation and lack of concentration during the day. In the long term lack of sleep can be very dangerous. Lack of sleep has been linked to obesity, high blood pressure and heart attacks. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in a state of drowsy driving causes more than 100,000 car accidents and 1550 deaths each year.