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07-SEPTEMBER-2008 03:17:44 - Nightmare For other uses, see Nightmare disambiguation. A nightmare is a dream which causes a strong unpleasant emotional response from the sleeper, typically fear or horror, being in situations of extreme danger, or the sensations of pain, falling, drowning or death. Such dreams can be related to physical causes such as a high fever, turned faced down on a pillow during sleep most often in the case of drowning nightmares, or psychological ones such as psychological trauma or stress in the sleeper's life, or can have no apparent cause. If a person has experienced a psychologically traumatic situation in life-for example, a person who may have been captured and tortured-the experience may come back to haunt them in their nightmares. Sleepers may waken in a state of distress and be unable to get back to sleep for some time. Eating before bed, which triggers an increase in the body's metabolism and brain activity, is another potential stimulus for nightmares1. Sleeping on the left side of the body could compress the chest cavity and restricts the movement of the heart, and has been known to cause nightmares.citation needed Occasional nightmares are commonplace, but recurrent nightmares can interfere with sleep and may cause people to seek medical help. A recently proposed treatment consists of imagery rehearsal.2 This approach appears to reduce the effects of nightmares and other symptoms in acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.3 Practitioners of lucid dreaming claim that it can help conquer nightmares of this type,4 rather than of the traditional type see below. Contents 1 Historic use of term 2 Medical investigation 3 See also 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links Historic use of term The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781 The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781 The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Nightmare was the original term for the state later known as waking dream cf. Mary Shelley and Frankenstein's Genesis, and more currently as sleep paralysis, associated with rapid eye movement REM sleep. The original definition was codified by Dr Johnson in his A Dictionary of the English Language and was thus understood, among others by Erasmus Darwin and Henry Fuseli,5 to include a morbid oppression during sleep, resembling the pressure of weight upon the breast. Such nightmares were widely considered to be the work of demons and more specifically incubi, which were thought to sit on the chests of sleepers. In Old English the name for these beings was mare or mære from a proto-Germanic marÅ?n, related to Old High German and Old Norse mara, hence comes the mare part in nightmare. Etymologically cognate with Anglo-Saxon /mara/ 'incubus' may be Hellenic /MarÅ?n/ in the Odusseid and Samská¹›ta /MÄ?ra/ supernatural protagonist of the Buddha. This incubus is more modernly referred to as sleep paralysis. Folk belief in Newfoundland, South Carolina and Georgia describe the negative figure of the Hag who leaves her physical body at night, and sits on the chest of her victim. The victim usually wakes with a feeling of terror, has difficulty breathing because of a perceived heavy invisible weight on his or her chest, and is unable to move i.e., experiences sleep paralysis. This nightmare experience is described as being hag-ridden in the Gullah lore. The Old Hag was a nightmare spirit in British and also Anglophone North American folklore. Various forms of magic and spiritual possession were also advanced as causes. In nineteenth century Europe, the vagaries of diet were thought to be responsible. For example, in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge attributes the ghost he sees to ... an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato... In a similar vein, the Household Cyclopedia 1881 offers the following advice about nightmares: Great attention is to be paid to regularity and choice of diet. Intemperance of every kind is hurtful, but nothing is more productive of this disease than drinking bad wine. Of eatables those which are most prejudicial are all fat and greasy meats and pastry... Moderate exercise contributes in a superior degree to promote the digestion of food and prevent flatulence; those, however, who are necessarily confined to a sedentary occupation, should particularly avoid applying themselves to study or bodily labor immediately after eating... Going to bed before the usual hour is a frequent cause of night-mare, as it either occasions the patient to sleep too long or to lie long awake in the night. Passing a whole night or part of a night without rest likewise gives birth to the disease, as it occasions the patient, on the succeeding night, to sleep too soundly. Indulging in sleep too late in the morning, is an almost certain method to bring on the paroxysm, and the more frequently it returns, the greater strength it acquires; the propensity to sleep at this time is almost irresistible.6 Medical investigation Studies of dreams have found that about three quarters of dream content or emotions are negative.7 One definition of nightmare is a dream which causes one to wake up in the middle of the sleep cycle and experience a negative emotion, such as fear. This type of event on average one per month. They are not common in children under 5, more common in young children 25% experiencing a nightmare at least once per week, most common in adolescents, and less common in adults dropping in frequency about one-third from age 25 to 55.7 Fearfulness in waking life is correlated with the incidence of nightmares.7 Scientists speculate that negative dreams are evolutionarily adapting, purging the brain of memories or associations which trigger fear.7 See also Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Nightmares Wikisource has original text related to this article: Nightmare Look up Nightmare in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sleep disorder Night terror Sleep paralysis Mara folklore Hag Nocnitsa The Nightmare Lucid dream Glossary of Traumatology Notes Max Eastman visited Sigmund Freud's apartment in Vienna in 1926. He saw a print of Fuseli's The Nightmare next to Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson. Ernest Jones chose another version of Fuseli's painting as the frontispiece of his book On the Nightmare; however, neither Freud nor Jones mentioned those paintings in their writings about the classic nightmare. Recent exhibits: Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Imagination. 15 February - 1 May 2006; Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. When considered a disease, nightmares are classified as follows: ICD-10 code = F51.5 ICD-9 code = 307.47 References ^ Stephens, Laura. 2006. Nightmares.. http://psychologytoday.com/conditions/nightmare.html.. ^ Davis JL, Wright DC 2005. Case series utilizing exposure, relaxation, and rescripting therapy: impact on nightmares, sleep quality, and psychological distress. Behavioral sleep medicine 3 3: 151-7. doi:10.1207/s15402010bsm0303_3. PMID 15984916. ^ Krakow B, Hollifield M, Johnston L, et al 2001. Imagery rehearsal therapy for chronic nightmares in sexual assault survivors with post traumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 286 5: 537-45. doi:10.1001/jama.286.5.537. PMID 11476655. ^ http://www.ld4all.com/index.html#framescontent=while_nightmares.shtml ^ Powell, Nicolas 1973. Fuseli: The Nightmare. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-0274-4. ^ The Household Cyclopedia - Medicine ^ a b c d The Science Behind Dreams and Nightmares, Talk of the Nation, national Public Radio. 30 October 2007. Anch, A.M., Browman, C.P., Mitler, M.M., Walsh, J.K. 1988. Sleep: A scientific perspective. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Harris J.C. 2004. Arch Gen Psychiatry. May;615:439-40. The Nightmare. PMID 15123487 Jones, Ernest 1951. On the Nightmare ISBN 0-87140-912-7 pbk, 1971; ISBN 0-87140-248-3. Forbes, D. et al. 2001 Brief Report: Treatment of Combat-Related Nightmares Using Imagery Rehearsal: A Pilot Study, Journal of Traumatic Stress 14 2: 433-442 Siegel, A. 2003 A mini-course for clinicians and trauma workers on posttraumatic nightmares. Burns, Sarah 2004. Painting the Dark Side : Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America. Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Are Imprint, 332 pp, University of California Press, ISBN 0-520-23821-4. Davenport-Hines, Richard 1999. Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin. North Point Press, p160-61. Simons, Ronald C and Hughes, Charles C eds.1985. Culture-Bound Syndromes. Springer, 536pp. Sagan, Carl 1997. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark . External links The value of nightmares and common nightmare themes Night-Mares: Demons that Cause Nightmares Elements of the Nightmare Gothic Nightmares exhibit v d e Sleep Sleep stages Rapid eye movement sleep · Non-rapid eye movement sleep · Slow-wave sleep Brain waves Beta wave · Delta wave · Gamma wave · Theta wave Sleep disorders Advanced sleep phase syndrome · Automatic behavior · Bruxism · Circadian rhythm sleep disorder · Delayed sleep phase syndrome · Dyssomnia · Excessive daytime sleepiness · Hypersomnia · Insomnia · Narcolepsy · Night terror · Nocturia · Nocturnal myoclonus · Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome · Ondine's curse · Parasomnia · Sleep apnea · Sleep deprivation · Sleepeating · Sleeping sickness · Sleeptalking · Sleepwalking Benign phenomena Dream · Exploding head syndrome · False awakening · Hypnagogia · Hypnic jerk · Lucid dream · Nightmare · Nocturnal emission · Sleep paralysis · Somnolence Related topics Bed Bunk bed, Four poster bed, Futon, Hammock, Mattress · Bed bug · Bedding · Bedroom · Bedtime · Bedtime toy · Bedtime story · Chronotype · Dream journal · Jet lag · Lullaby · Nightwear · Polyphasic sleep · Power nap · Siesta · Sleep and learning · Sleep debt · Sleep diary · Sleep inertia · Sleep medicine · Sleepover · Snoring · Sleep and creativity Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Nightmare Categories: Dreaming | SleepHidden categories: All articles with statements | Articles with statements since August 2008 Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages Asturianu ÄŒesky Dansk Deutsch Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Euskara Ù?ارسی Français Italiano עברית Nederlands 日本語 ‪Norsk bokmÃ¥l‬ Polski Português РуÑ?Ñ?кий Simple English Suomi Svenska Türkçe ä¸æ–‡ This page was last modified on 23 August 2008, at 03:5
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