Can You Dream Too Much?

We looked, rather tangentially, at how dreaming or, more accurately, over dreaming and depression can go hand in hand in the last article. Now, we'll go into things a little bit more in depth.

We saw how depressed people dream up to three times as much as those who don't suffer from the condition. Now we have to ask the question why, and what's the link to having so little energy in the morning?

The answer is yes, depressed people do dream about three times more, and this is the reason why they have so little energy in the morning. If you have a nagging worry, (the psychiatrists like to call it 'emotional arousal') about which you've been worrying all day and it follows you to bed that night, without you being able to do anything about it, then it becomes 'dreamed out' while you're asleep.

Remember, too, that you dream metaphorically. Perhaps you dream about falling off a tall building. This could be concern over your job. Effectively, you're 'falling out' of the firm. So you dream this out, which leaves the neo-cortex, or higher brain all ready to deal with the next day's disasters. Dreaming takes the worry out of worry!

This next part we've touched on, but dreaming is sometimes called 'paradoxical sleep' since it doesn't provide us with any rest. You remember R.E.M.? Rapid Eye Movement? Well, this is when we have many more stress hormones, such as adrenaline in our system.

Can you dream too much? Yes, you certainly can, and this is why when you do 'over dream', that you wake up feeling awful and exhausted. The reason is that you've suffered under so much stress during the time you've been asleep.

It's been found that when a depressed person is woken whenever they show signs of R.E.M., (which as we've seen is all part of dreaming), then it will ease the depression, but after a few days, they could become very anxious and even manic, since their brooding is still with them, but the dreaming is no longer flushing the system, as it were.

The next question we must study is why depressives dream more than others? The basic reason is one word. Our old friend, rumination, although I'll call it brooding from now on. Remember that depressives don't have any energy, so the chances are they sit around and think negatively. On and on.

If you don't suffer from depression, then the chances are your thoughts are positive, you're cheerful and happy for most of the time, we all have our bad days, but for the most part, you're a pretty contented person. And why? Because you dream normally and, which is most vital, you have long periods of deep, restful sleep.

When you wake in the morning, you may be one of those people who leap out of bed, but more likely you look over the side of the bed to make sure no-one's stolen the floor in the middle of the night!

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