The reality of visions and dreams
The human sciences and the monotheistic religions have paid much attention to man’s dreams and visions, so that they have made them into special and distinct classifications of the Sharia sciences and interpretation. The importance of dreams and visions is due to the concern of the heavenly laws in them, nations, kings, scholars and historians, and the heavenly books mentioned the dreams and visions of the prophets and made them sacred in terms of hadith, transmission and importance. And scholars mention visions that it is the first among sciences.
The scientific origin of dreams
Scientists talked about describing dreams, their natures, causes and types, watched sleep, analyzed their dreams, and referred them to their psychological and social states and their needs that they seek to fulfill or their desires that they aspire to achieve, but all this did not help them to identify the precise scientific nature of the dream and the causes of the dream. The joyful good and the dreadful evil, and Freud saw that dreams are merely a guardian of sleep that prolongs its duration and prevents its interruption by evoking events that satisfy the unconscious impulses for the person to continue in his deep sleep, and in his opinion that dreams are the product of the soul's struggle between its repressed desires and their resistance to their suppression The human being with its events and facts, so the brain continues its preoccupation, thus producing intellectual activity as a kind of response to the stimulus to which the sleeper has been exposed or the impulse that occupies him and cares him, or narrates the events of the day, days or what preceded it, or shows solutions to his problems and dreams may carry many of them. It ends sleep and awakens the person; He will most likely forget what happened in his dream and still feel comfort or annoyance.
Fear of dreams
Many people suffer from the problem of disturbing dreams and permanent or divergent nightmares, and studies show that one in two suffers from such dreams every night, with a high rate for spaced periods reaching eight percent in adults, and it rises to about fifty percent in children under school age and between three and three Exactly six years of age, and the high percentage in children is explained by many reasons related to the health, psychological, social and security situation of the child, and other things that the child experiences on a daily basis, respiratory diseases, for example, help in increasing the exposure to such dreams, and the changes that the child faces during its early stages Such as entering school, trying to cope with new friends, moving in, and parents ’problems or their divorce, all of which give him a disturbing nervous pressure that is expressed in nightmares and disturbing dreams.
Mostly, the dreamer with a nightmare or exposed to disturbed dreams enters into a state of fear of sleep as a result of his fear of exposure to dreams again or his fear of returning to the dream itself and living its events and scenes, so feelings of fear, sadness, anxiety and reluctance to sleep dominate him. In order to avoid exposure to the dream again, and many people may not feel the importance of disturbing dreams or not generate a feeling about them. Due to its rare occurrence or the spacing of its periods, but some people are greatly affected by it, and they may have psychological complications or behavioral crises accompanied by chronic insomnia and fear of sleep, and some may form the idea of suicide due to the severity of the psychological pressure that it creates.
Methods of prevention of disturbing dreams
It happens that a person expects his dreams as a result of saturating fear of them and worrying about their reflection and repetition, and the psychological state of the person plays a relative role in the occurrence of disturbing dreams. It is considered the product of thinking about daily worries and problems, and disturbing dreams leave a negative psychological effect on the dreamer sometimes, but the worst is the troubles, loads, worries and thinking that they leave after waking up from sleep and the end of the dream, then the transformation to the state of fear of dreams as a permanent behavior, and the individual can avoid Himself from experiencing a crisis of disturbing dreams and the consequent fear and panic with some preventive measures, including:
Providing physical and psychological comfort in the period of time before sleep that is sufficient for the mind and body to empty its negative energy and alter its state of mind, so that the soul is not preoccupied with disturbing things or life activities that consume the body's energy and call for the mind's attention and occupy it with thinking, emotion and effort, and this includes all physical and mental activities that exhaust the body And the breath gets tired; Such as reading disturbing novels, watching exciting television programs, or remembering the disturbing daily events that lead to disturbing dreams.
Spacing meals from the sleep period sufficiently, and avoiding fatty foods and drinks containing caffeine such as tea, coffee and soft drinks in the period leading up to bedtime with an appropriate period of time. So that the body gets rid of the effects that lead to anxiety.
Doing morning sports and avoiding a long day sleep.
Programming the body and accustom it to sleep at a fixed schedule and regulating the time allocated for rest.
Practice relaxation exercises that stimulate breathing, improve feelings, and bring happiness; Such as meditating on joyful events and fond memories, and practicing breathing exercises.
