Do babies have nightmares?

Dreaming is a common experience. Some dreams are so beautiful that they are worth remembering, but some nightmares make people dare not fall asleep again, afraid of entering dreams again. Does everyone dream? Will infants?

First of all, from the physiology of sleep, the process of sleep is not simply two stages of falling asleep and waking up. Sleep can be divided into two categories, one is called rapid eye movement period. During this period, although people fell asleep, their eyes kept moving. This period is also a time to dream. Another stage is called non rapid eye movement. During this period, apart from the eyeball no longer turning, the heartbeat and breathing also showed normal and regular phenomenon. In the hours of sleep, the period of immobility has been repeated several times. In other words, in such a sleep, I have had several dreams. If you wake up in the non rapid eye movement period, you will not feel that you have had a dream. But if you wake up during the REM phase, that is, during the dream phase, you may remember the dream clearly.

Babies dream, too

This kind of sleep cycle is about eight months old, so it is speculated that even newborn babies should have dreams, but we don't know what dreams their little heads have.

So what about nightmares? Nightmares can be divided into two categories. One is real nightmares, also known as nightmares. This occurs during the rapid eye movement phase. One in five school-age children may have this experience.

When children wake up from sleep, they will remember the terrible dream just now, so they will cry and dare not go to sleep immediately. They often need parents' comfort and company to fall asleep. As the saying goes: "the day has thought, the night has a dream." For this nightmare, it makes sense. Parents don't have to ask their children what they are afraid of in the middle of the night. At this time, they might as well give them a sense of security immediately and let them fall asleep. During the next day, talk with your children about what they are really afraid of and try to solve the psychological pressure.

Waking up in the middle of the night is not necessarily a dream

Another kind of nightmare is not a real dream. We call it night creeper. Children in sleep suddenly sit up, yell or talk in their sleep, even breathing, heart rate and night sweats, eyes dull, call them not to answer. A few minutes later, the child lay down quietly and fell asleep again. The next morning, he asked them if they didn't remember it at all.

This nighttime tremor occurs in the non rapid eye movement period, so it is not a real dream. About five percent of children have this phenomenon, which is related to family heredity. That is to say, other people in the family may have similar conditions. This situation is rather shocking. It is the family members who are scared to see, not themselves. They will be mistakenly thought that the soul flies, and be taken to frighten, or mistakenly thought of as something attached, and so on.

In fact, it's not harmful to me. Most of them only happen once or twice, and rarely appear again. I just scared my parents. If parents encounter this kind of phenomenon, don't worry.

It didn't work to comfort the children at that time, just help them wipe sweat. It is worth noting that a small number of children may have sleepwalking phenomenon, that is, they may get out of bed and go out. Once the children have sleepwalking, just watch them and don't let the sleepwalkers go out of the door and suffer collision. It's no big deal.