Neuroscientist Reveals the Scariest Phenomena During Sleep
An expert spoke about the multifaceted nature of sleep.
Sleep is as common a phenomenon for humans as breathing, eating, etc. Many people take this process for granted (if there are no problems with falling asleep), but scientists study it comprehensively.
Neurobiologist Jane Anderson has spoken about sleep phenomena that can be shocking, writes the Daily Mail .
Of scientific curiosity are the hallucinations that occur in a state of hypnagogia. This is a state in which a person seems to be between sleep and wakefulness.
It is used by some creative professionals to search for ideas and inspiration, the neurobiologist notes.
Science is also interested in the so-called hypnopompic hallucinations. They occur at the moment of awakening.
At this point, the brain has not yet fully transitioned into reality and continues to “project” dream images.
Anderson also said that about 20% of people have "lucid dreaming." This is a kind of personal reality in which a person controls the events of a dream, decides what should be there and how it should happen.
Parasomnias, on the other hand, are among the frightening sleep phenomena. This word refers to a number of deviations, some of which are related to mental disorders.
Examples of parasomnia include sleepwalking and sexsomnia.
Another not very pleasant phenomenon is false awakening. In this case, a person thinks that he has woken up, but in fact he is still in a dream.
For reference
Sleep is a periodically occurring physiological state, opposite to the state of wakefulness, characterized by a reduced reaction to the surrounding world.
