If you've ever sounded that, suddenly, you fall into a vacuum or that you simply fall out of bed, then you are part of that 95% of the population that shares the same dream pattern.This short and short experience has caused you to wake up alarmed and with agitated breathing.A shock that far from propitiating a relaxed dream fills us with restlessness in the tranquility of the night.
But why does it happen? We will explain it to you below and give you some small tips to prevent it from happening to you more times.
I'm going to fall! Why does my brain do this to me?
Let's talk first about that common experience: that of sounding that we fall out of bed. If you make a small effort of memory, you You will realize that this phenomenon occurs especially in the first moments of the dream, a few minutes after closing our eyes and even when we fell asleep on the sofa.Without knowing how, we suddenly experienced a strange sensation, as if we were at point of overturning, of falling.
Experts of the Sleep Unit of the Hospital of Madrid, explain that this is basically due to a very specific structure: the system vestibular.It is this that allows us to maintain balance and that makes us manage to keep the body and the kinetic system properly regulated.
But what happens then when we are ormidos? That there is a small decompensation between the impulses of the vestibular system and the kinesthetic. Having a dissociated state of consciousness - being half asleep - there is a slight information error between both centers of our body.It is something that occurs at the beginning of the dream and that is a brief sensation.Brief, but that always gets us to wake up startled.once, from the impression, you have truly fallen out of bed.
The fascinating world of dreams and cerebral whims
Let us now think about all those dreams we have experienced, in the which, we see ourselves falling into the void: a cliff, a path that suddenly disappears under our feet and makes us descend, a staircase that turns into smoke...etc.Now, ask yourself a simple question How did you find yourself those days ? Were you nervous for something? I restless maybe? Stressed?
Many times we get into bed with endless thoughts in mind.We still haven't cut that "umbilical cord" that separates the day from the moment of "rest".We need to be relaxed and calm to feel the relief of the bed and shelter of a restful sleep.
It is very common that in those days in which we have done many things, our brain comes to fall asleep but still be present in that activity, that pressure and that anxiety. The body is nevertheless relaxed, very relaxed...but the no, hence that mind-body inequality exists and the brain interprets it, simply , like a «fall».
As if that were not enough, in that fall to the void the brain also prepares us for the idea of feeling the pain, thus increasing the adrenaline level in such an intense way that we end up waking up startled.Of a «jump».
This phenomenon is also related to the «hypagogic paralysis», or better known as sleep paralysis, of which we have already spoken to you at Lifestyle .Our brain gives us a neurological alarm of real danger, even many of our senses are activated: hearing, sight...and yet we are unable to react.Our body remains relaxed while the brain is a whole carousel of emotions and panic.
And then what should we do to not suffer these experiences ?, to reconcile a peaceful dream in which, we do not we take off, for example, by a ravine? Simply separate your daily worries as soon as you get home, especially when it is time to go to bed.Remember that the ideal thing is to have dinner two hours before going to sleep, something light and give the stomach time to digest with Quiet.Take a hot shower and remember to also turn off your computer and set aside your mobile an hour before bedtime.These types of waves present in electronic devices tend to stimulate our brain a lot by preventing a quiet dream.
And keep in mind what we once explained to you in Lifestyle: Taking a foot out of the blankets also helps us to fall asleep!
Image: David Blackwell., Emanuele Rosso
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