Friday, March 9, 2012

The Most Bizzare Sleep Disorder

Sleep should be time when the mind becomes calm and the body becomes relax. However, some people actually have do strange things during their sleep. This sleep disorder is varies, from eat while asleep to having sex while asleep. Here are some of the most bizarre sleep disorders.

Sexsomnia, Sex While Sleeping

Sexsomnia is sexual activity while asleep. There are many forms of this weird behavior from doing sexual sigh, masturbation until sexual violence or rape. A study published in 2007 in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology journal, said that lack of sleep, stress, alcohol, drugs can trigger sexsomnia.



Eating While Sleeping


People who experience this disorder will eating at night and woke up the next morning without being able to remember what he did last night. Some sufferers even engage in activities that may harm themselves by cutting food or stove. The sleep disorder is a mystery until now. Drugs that increase dopamine can help stop this interference.


REM behavior disorder


Sometimes, the brain can't signals the body to remain silent during sleep. When that happens, people act according to his dream, to yell, hit, kicked, and even go out of bed and run around. When awake, they are usually able to remember his dream, but did not remember his actions. REM behavior disorder is most common in older adults. Doctors usually treat the disorder with drugs that can reduce REM sleep and calm the body.

Sleep Paralysis

During REM sleep phase, dream activity increase and muscular body does not move. This paralysis prevents the body acts like a dream and hurt yourself. Sometimes, some people still suffered paralysis after waking from sleep. We realize that being awake, but could not move the body.
In the 1999 study, 75 percent of students who had experienced sleep paralysis admitted having hallucinations. Experienced hallucinations usually are looking demon.


Exploding Head Syndrome

This disruption occurs during early sleep and woke up suddenly because startled by loud noise. The voices usually heard is cymbal sound or sound of explosions. The sound of explosions seems come right next to the head. This disorder does not cause pain and harmless. Until now, doctors do not know what the cause of this sleep disorder. But this disorder is known to be associated with serious diseases


Hallucination

All people must have seen strange things in his dream. But this hallucination sometimes was experienced when not dreaming. Hypnagogic hallucinations occur during the phase transition from waking to sleep phase. Hypnopompic hallucinations occur during waking. People who experience these hallucinations claimed to hear voices, feel the appearance of a ghost or strange to see people or objects in the room.

Night of Terror

This disorder is characterized by the behavior of screaming, thrashing and felt panic. Unlike nightmares that occur during the REM phase of sleep, night terrors occur during non-REM sleep phase and usually occurs early in the evening. This disorder is most common among children. Those who have experienced terror can sit up suddenly open their eyes. They often yell or scream, and can not be awakened or comforted. In some cases, someone who have night terrors also have sleepwalking behavior.

Sleepwalking

As many as 15 percent of adults sometimes get up and amble around the house while you sleep. In children, the numbers even more. No one knows what causes this disorder. Stress and insomnia are considered as the trigger factor. It may be that the cause is genetic. People who have close relatives who experience sleepwalking 10 times more likely to sleepwalk than most people

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