Somnologist, Honored Doctor of Russia, Doctor of Medical Sciences Roman Buzunov explained why
The expert noted that nightmares are a brain searchdecisions based on accumulated experience, an attempt to understand what happened; disclosure of the subconscious, when in a dream a person is looking for a way out of any situation, "how he would act in it: run away, catch up, fight."
According to the doctor, nightmares should be treated asto some adaptive element. But when the nightmares become chronic, when the same nightmare is repeated constantly and the mind is left with an unresolved problem, nervous exhaustion begins, due to which the person becomes prone to anxiety and depression. In this case, you need to contact a specialist.
"This is the worst type of nightmare, it is oftendescribed in films: a person gets into a car accident, and then every night he dreams about how he gets into this car accident. The brain turns to this situation, cannot adapt to it, cannot decide how to proceed, wakes up in horror, having not found any solution, ”said Roman Buzunov.
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