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We've all had nightmares from time to time, you wake up and your heart is racing, but you're alive. But what if you die in your dreams? Do you wake up? In today's video going to look at if you die in your dreams could it actually kill you in real life? Science may have an answer to help put our minds at ease, or make our worst fears into living nightmares.
So ...
Can nightmares kill you?
Natalie Walther, Trauma Therapy & Dream Counselor - https://www.quora.com/Can-nightmares-kill-you
No.
Dreams - and also nightmares - are messages from your subconscious to yourself.
Especially young children and adolescents are strongly affected by nightmares. These dreams usually stop when we get older. We are aware of our feelings, how to cope with them. We have found ways on how to get in touch with us, what we need and desire.
Nightmares can continue if we don’t listen to our inner voice, if we act contrary to our awareness or if we don’t act despite being aware of our needs. Nightmares do have an important message for you. They can be a sign for a blockage, like an unconscious fear, a childhood trauma, an emotion you don’t want to deal with, an illusion you are still hanging on, etc.
Rakesh Paul, Engineer from Savitribai Phule Pune University (2019) - https://www.quora.com/Can-nightmares-kill-you
Yes, yeah you read it right. Nightmare can cause death, it has caused the deaths of many people.
After the Vietnam war, over 100 healthy hgman men died in their sleep. They all were refugees of war who settled in the U.S. Such was the fear that some people refused to sleep after the incident.
In Indonesia, there were more deaths in sleep than in a car accident.
There are different ways to see it. One way is a genetic disease SUNDS ( sudden unexpected nocturnal death syndrome ) another is sleep paralysis.
In both cases, the human brain is not able to produce the electrical waves required by a heart to beat. When the heart slows down during sleep, the electrical problems that trigger SUNDS become more pronounced, override the body's ability to regulate its own heartbeat, and send the organ itself into a deadly spasm.
SUNDS is a genetic disorder mostly found in Southeast Asian descendants. The cause or cure of this disease is yet to be found. But it has nothing to do with the content of your dreams.
Sleep paralysis is a common problem found in most of the human beings all over the world. In a different culture, it's been called differently. A person who suffers from sleep paralysis describes their experience as withdrawing of the body to move even at their will. They often see a creature who is either sitting on their chest pushing them down or trying to choke the person to death. The form of the creature depends on your counter some see ghosts some see spiders or kittens. The frequencies of these experiences can vary from person to person.
It occurs between REM sleep and wakeful brain waves. Where you're sleeping but still aware of the surroundings.
But sleep paralysis does have the ability to kill a person.