what sleep disorder do i have?
i am just curious. i once was diagnosed with mono. i got it from someone coughing over me. since then i am always tired. i could sleep 10 hours and still be tired. i’ve also had dreams of being raped. i was wondering what are some sleep disorders. in which a person has violent dreams of being attacked. also sleep disorders involving, no matter how much i sleep i’m always tired. thanks.
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During sleep, we usually pass through five phases of sleep. These stages progress in a cycle from stage 1 to rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, then the cycle starts over again with stage 1.
We spend almost 50 percent of our total sleep time in stage 2 sleep, about 20 percent in REM sleep, and the remaining 30 percent in the other stages. Infants, by contrast, spend about half of their sleep time in REM sleep.
During stage 1, which is light sleep, we drift in and out of sleep and can be awakened easily. Our eyes move very slowly and muscle activity slows. People awakened from stage 1 sleep often remember fragmented visual images. Many also experience sudden muscle contractions called hypnic myoclonia, often preceded by a sensation of starting to fall. These sudden movements are similar to the "jump" we make when startled.
When we enter stage 2 sleep, our eye movements stop and our brain waves (fluctuations of electrical activity that can be measured by electrodes) become slower, with occasional bursts of rapid waves called sleep spindles.
In stage 3, extremely slow brain waves called delta waves begin to appear, interspersed with smaller, faster waves.
By stage 4, the brain produces delta waves almost exclusively. It is very difficult to wake someone during stages 3 and 4, which together are called deep sleep. There is no eye movement or muscle activity. People awakened during deep sleep do not adjust immediately and often feel groggy and disoriented for several minutes after they wake up. Some children experience bedwetting, night terrors, or sleepwalking during deep sleep.
When we switch into REM sleep, our breathing becomes more rapid, irregular, and shallow, our eyes jerk rapidly in various directions, and our limb muscles become temporarily paralyzed. Our heart rate increases, our blood pressure rises, and males develop penile erections. When people awaken during REM sleep, they often describe bizarre and illogical tales – dreams.
The first REM sleep period usually occurs about 70 to 90 minutes after we fall asleep. A complete sleep cycle takes 90 to 110 minutes on average. The first sleep cycles each night contain relatively short REM periods and long periods of deep sleep. As the night progresses, REM sleep periods increase in length while deep sleep decreases. By morning, people spend nearly all their sleep time in stages 1, 2, and REM.
People awakened after sleeping more than a few minutes are usually unable to recall the last few minutes before they fell asleep. This sleep-related form of amnesia is the reason people often forget telephone calls or conversations they’ve had in the middle of the night. It also explains why we often do not remember our alarms ringing in the morning if we go right back to sleep after turning them off.
As for dreams, yours sounds like a nightmare! However, and please take note. Their is someone in your life right now who you do not trust, you may have a good reason not to trust them, or perhaps they do not seem as if what they are saying is the truth! That is what is causing this nightmare. Therefore the cure. Think about this dream while putting on your PJs and going to bed. Follow this nightamre to a conclusion, you are raped, so what happens next? Resolve this problem while you are awake, it can go you fall pregnant what happens next. Or they find the person and he is arrested, tried and sent to Jail. Then choose which anwer you want. Then when you go to bed, putting on the PJs, run the answer through your mind before you go to sleep. When the nightmare returns, you have the answer and so you will dream the dream until it is completed and that will be the end of this nightmare. Good Luck
Underestimated – just because you wake up tired does not necessarily mean you have a sleep disorder.
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