Talk in a Dream: Reveal your deepest secret?
In "Autumn Lantern Talk" by Wang Xie in Qing Dynasty, there is such a record, which the author translated into vernacular as follows:
"My man, XXX, often sleeps until midnight, opens the door, turns around in the village, and soon goes back to his room to sleep, but he doesn't know it. Later, he engaged in maritime trade with relatives and friends, and everyone was afraid that his previous problems would recur. Whenever he sleeps on the boat, he is tied to the bed. After a long time, he relaxed and didn't tie it one night. He suddenly got up in the bedroom, opened the hatch and went to sea, which was swallowed by Wang Yang. "
"My relatives have hired a servant named Li. When he goes to bed at night, he will suddenly sit up in bed, sing loudly and fall asleep after singing. Everyone asked him, only to hear him snoring loudly, completely unaware. One night, the thief sneaked into the back room and just climbed the wall. Li suddenly jumped out of bed, singing and dancing, like acting. The thief fell off the wall in fright. Everyone heard the sound and got up to check and caught the thief, while Li Mouyi was still singing in his sleep. "
The first story is about sleepwalking, and the second story is about talking in a dream. There are many such records in ancient books. Traditionally, sleepwalking and sleepwalking are active dreams.
Sleepwalking is not a dream, but a deep sleep.
The so-called "sleepwalking" means that a person gets out of bed and wanders around when he is obviously asleep. Although it can happen to people of any age (as long as they can walk), it is most common in children aged 6 to 12, and less common in adults.
Sleepwalking usually occurs within 1/3 before falling asleep, that is, within two or three hours after falling asleep. The duration of sleepwalking varies from a few minutes to half an hour or 40 minutes. Children who tend to sleepwalk often just get out of bed in a daze and repeatedly do some rigid or aimless actions, such as constantly pinching the quilt with their hands, and then fall down and continue to sleep. But a few adults and sleepwalkers have more tricks. They will get out of bed and walk around. They may go to other rooms in the house or go outdoors. Some people just walk around. They may go to other rooms in the house, such as opening doors, getting dressed, moving furniture and even driving. I once sleepwalked and drove out until a car accident happened. Sleepwalkers' eyes are open or half closed, but their expressions are dull and they don't look around, but when they encounter obstacles, they usually avoid them automatically. His movements are slow and stiff, a bit like a robot. If he starts talking, he is usually incoherent. If you ask him "Where are you going"? Or "What time is it"? He doesn't usually answer your questions. There is no literature report that someone has talked to a sleepwalker, but if you order him to "go back to bed", he usually goes back to bed and goes back to sleep. If you shake a person who is swimming hard, he will often have a reaction that he doesn't know where he is after waking up.
At the end of sleepwalking, sleepwalkers usually go back to bed and continue to sleep, but sometimes they fall to the ground and sleep everywhere. When they woke up the next morning, they looked scared. They didn't know why they slept here, and they didn't remember what happened when they were sleepwalking.
Sleepwalking runs in the family.
Sleepwalking is more common in children and teenagers. According to statistics, 15% of children have at least one sleepwalking experience, and the frequent sleepwalking is between 1%-6%, but generally they will disappear automatically when they grow up. Adult sleepwalking is rare, but it is chronic (frequent), and almost everyone has had sleepwalking experience as a child.
Sleepwalking has a strong family tendency, with more men than women. If one of identical twins sleepwalks, the probability of the other sleepwalks is quite high, indicating that sleepwalking may have genetic factors. It is reported that a couple and their four children will sleepwalk. Once at three o'clock in the morning, the whole family got up and sat around the table. It was not until a child accidentally knocked over the chair and made a loud noise that the whole family woke up.
Observations in the sleep lab show that sleepwalkers are mostly "deep sleepers". After they fall asleep, they sleep deeper than the average person, wake up harder and have fewer dreams. The incidence of bed wetting and night terrors in sleepwalking children is higher than that in normal children, and the incidence of central nervous system infection, injury and epilepsy is also higher than that in normal children.
Sleepwalking begins in a deep sleep, so if you are too tired during the day, or sleep less in the first few nights, or take sedatives and sleeping pills before going to bed, the deeper you sleep that night, the greater the chance of sleepwalking.
Children sleepwalking is mainly due to organic reasons.
Why are you sleepwalking? Children and adults may have different reasons. However, most children's sleepwalking may be related to the underdeveloped central nervous system. As mentioned earlier, sleepwalking usually occurs in the third and fourth stages of non-rapid eye movement sleep. These two stages in children's sleep cycle are longer. If the child's sleep enters this stage, he will be picked up from the bed and let him stand. He will automatically walk around and continue to "fall asleep". Bedwetting and night terrors in children also occur at this stage of the sleep cycle. Therefore, children's sleepwalking, bed wetting and night terrors may have organic reasons, which have little to do with psychological factors.
Psychological factors of adult sleepwalking
Adult sleepwalking is closely related to psychological factors. Adult sleepwalkers mostly mumble and make seemingly "meaningful" repetitive actions. Experts believe that these explicit words and deeds in sleepwalking are the illusion reappearance of a traumatic event in his heart.
Sleepwalking is actually a state of schizophrenia.
When we dream, the words or actions that appear in our dreams are only "pure imagination", but we still have vague memories after waking up. Although the language and actions shown in the sleepwalking state are concrete, after waking up the sleepwalker, he has "no memory at all". This difference seems to indicate that sleepwalking and dreaming belong to different categories of consciousness, and sleepwalking is reminiscent of sleepwalking in "dissociative hysteria".
A common feature of "dissociative hysteria neurosis" is that the client is "oblivious" to what happened in a certain period of time, and his amnesia, according to psychoanalysis, is due to a kind of psychological inhibition. Adult sleepwalking, perhaps part of it belongs to this dissociative hysterical psychosis.
Sleepwalking is potentially dangerous.
People in Wang Xian sleepwalked on the boat and finally fell into the sea and died. Sleepwalkers walk around, which is potentially dangerous. Most people think that sleepwalkers can walk on the windowsill of tall buildings without danger, which is not impossible, because sleepwalkers don't know what fear is, and naturally they can walk on the ground, but if you wake him up in such a dangerous environment, he may be "afraid" of falling after waking up. In another case, when walking by the window of a tall building, he sometimes stepped out of the window or hit the wall because he didn't know he was afraid. These consequences are unimaginable.
Taves once reported that a 14-year-old boy got out of bed while sleepwalking, looked at the refrigerator, and then walked out the back door of his house and onto the highway. He was almost killed by an oncoming car, but fortunately he was only slightly injured. It may be too optimistic to think that sleepwalkers will never hurt themselves or others. If you see a sleepwalker, it's better before he steps into a dangerous environment.
Sleep rarely reveals the deepest secrets.
Sleepwalking is often accompanied by sleepwalking, but sleepwalking is not the patent of sleepwalkers, it is more common than sleepwalking, both adults and children have it.
According to ancient books, during the Three Kingdoms period, Monroe of the State of Wu was drunk once and fell asleep in the hall. In her sleep, she suddenly opened her mouth to recite the Book of Changes, which startled everyone next to her. When Lumen woke up, everyone asked him what had happened. Lv Meng said that he had just dreamed of chatting with Fu Yi's family, King Wen and Duke Zhou about the rise and fall of the country and astronomical geography. Lv Meng felt that they were all talking about the Book of Changes, but they had never used a sentence from the Book of Changes, so he recited all the words from the Book of Changes to them. If this is true, then Monroe's dream talk may be the longest and most coherent dream talk ever.
Lv Meng's dream talk is actually a part of his dream, so he remembers what he said in the dream. But according to the observation of sleep laboratories around the world, talk in a dream can appear at any stage of the sleep cycle, and talk in a dream is not necessarily a dream. Talking in a dream is usually just a few words, with no head or tail, and it is difficult to understand what to express, so it is called a "hidden dream". So people who talk in their sleep at night can rest assured that talking in their sleep or talking in their sleep rarely reveals their deepest secrets.