50 Insane Facts About Dreams You Never Knew

superstitious when it comes to spirits and ghosts. So when all those Hmomg kids, many of them in their 30s, started kicking the bucket, people believed it might be related to spirits. Many of the Hmong said that these men had been visited by a spirit that settled on their chest, which, as you know, in the West is called sleep paralysis. The Hmong call this evil ghost dab tsuam (dah chua). So the question for American scientists was whether there was a connection between sleep paralysis and SUNDS. Meanwhile, the Hmong men were scared, not knowing if the evil spirit woman would catch them while they were sleeping.

American scientists did not believe there were ghost-related deaths. They said that in the Green-Hmong subgroup there were many cases of sudden death and also non-fatal sleep disorders. They said Hmong men were predisposed to a type of genetic cardiac arrhythmia that can worsen at night when the heart beats slowly. A doctor later said that cardiac arrhythmia and sleep paralysis are related. The Hmong were told that instead of appeasing the spirits with offerings, they should consult a doctor. 7. Despite what you've heard, you can turn the lights on or off in your

dreams

. Not being able to turn one on could simply mean that you are feeling insecure about something.

Activating one could be positive; You may feel that good news is on the way or that you have made a breakthrough in work or life. 6. 50% of all your nighttime

dreams

will typically occur during the last two hours of sleep. These are the witching hours and the time when you really want to control your dreams. 5. According to dream researchers, lucid dreams can be learned. They say one trick is to intentionally wake up about two hours early. This is called the wake-back-to-bed technique (WBTB), and can be used with the mnemonic technique of lucid dream induction (MILD). The latter means saying something over and over in your head for about five minutes before going back to sleep for another two hours.

This could be the phrase: "The next time I am dreaming, I will remember that I am dreaming." If you think this sounds silly, scientists put it to the test in 2020. Not only did 18% of people have a lucid dream on the nights they used the techniques, but five in ten people who had

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had a lucid dream lucid dreaming in their lives had at least one lucid dream in the five-week period they practiced. the techniques. 4. Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism, occurs during the non-rapid eye movement (NREM) stage of sleep. It happens more to children, but overall, about 7 percent of people sleepwalk at some point in their lives. 3.

There is also sleep talking, also known as somniloquy. This is thought to often happen during REM sleep and also during light sleep. It is usually quite harmless. In fact, one study showed that about half of children ages 3 to 10 talk in their sleep, often just a burst of speech lasting about 30 seconds. Adults tend to do it less; perhaps only about 5% of adults talk regularly in their sleep. 66% of adults have done it at least once, according to Sleep Medicine Research, and 17% of adults have done it for a period of three months or more. What comes out often makes no sense or is incoherent.

What's quite funny is that the Sleep Foundation said that people often get really rude and offensive when they talk in their sleep or maybe say embarrassing sexual things. Studies have shown that "no" is often a word of choice for sleepers, and in a French study, the bad word "putain" was said a lot. In reality, it is only a problem when they turn into screams and screams, which happens during those night terrors that we have already mentioned. People with PTSD are more likely to talk or scream in their sleep than people who do not have PTSD. 2. There is also nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (NSRED).

This means that people sleepwalk to the refrigerator or other food source. Studies have shown that they will often eat anything, so ice cream with a pizza topped with custard and curry is fine. One study said: “Injuries were caused by carelessly cutting food or opening cans; consumption of boiling liquids (coffee) or solids (hot oatmeal); and frantically running against walls, kitchen counters, and furniture.” Worse yet, people have ingested toxic substances, including cleaning agents and glue. Fortunately, this is very rare. NSRED occurs in only 1 to 5 percent of adults. It is often related to other sleep disorders, eating disorders, and may be related to major depression and severe anxiety.

It can also be embarrassing as individuals and families wake up to find that what appears to be a family of bears has been in the kitchen overnight. One man said he did it all the time, explaining that every other night he would "wake up in a bed full of food, with a Hansel-style trail of crumbs littering my bedroom and kitchen floor." Okay, the last one, the strangest one, even after what you just heard. 1. If you see someone sleepwalking, don't slap them or yell at them. Be gentle. Take them back to bed. The reason is that they could do something dangerous.

They could hurt you or themselves. In 2005, a 15-year-old girl climbed 130 feet to the top of a crane near her home outside London, United Kingdom. When firefighters reached her, they discovered that she was fast asleep. She had no idea that she had left her house and climbed onto that crane: an incredibly risky adventure. Furthermore, in 2005, the British press talked about a man who had just been acquitted of the murder of his 83-year-old father. The elderly man was kicked, punched and jumped on, causing 90 injuries. When the son woke up, his father was in the driveway of the house and it looked as if he had gone 12 rounds with an escaped chimpanzee while taking Xanax.

The son was subsequently subjected to what was called “the most detailed scientific tests in British legal history” and walked free, even though he had a history of violence. Scott Falater in the United States was not so lucky after he claimed in the 1990s that he was a sleepwalker when he stabbed his wife dozens of times and dumped her body in a swimming pool. In 2021, still in prison for murder, Falater said: “All I can say is that I don't know what happened. I'm sure I

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planned it. I couldn't gain anything from it." In Spain in 2001, a man who murdered his wife and mother-in-law with an ax said he was dreaming about fighting ostriches when he was chopping up the two women.

This excuse didn't work in court, but surprisingly, the so-called sleepwalking defense has worked several times throughout modern history. Now you need to watch this gruesome story, "Russian Sleep Experiment: EXPLAINED." Or take a look at “Human Sleep Experiment Gone Horribly Wrong.”