[Y. Agrawal]
Nightmare means a dream characterised by great
distress and a sense of oppression or suffocation. In children nightmares are
precipitated by disturbances of the respiratory or the digestive apparatus and
by psychic over stimulation. Children may perspire during their frightful
experiences, but they do not awaken fully. When placed in bed again after being
soothed, they usually fall quickly into untroubled sleep and have an amnesia
for the experience when they arise in the morning. A physician should be
consulted when a child has nightmares, for adenoids are often in the background
of a respiratory impediment. When no organic cause can be found psychological
factors must be assumed. Nightmares of grown ups are, however, correlated to
the instinctual pressures. Besides correcting organic impediments, following
medicines help us in curing this state of affair (children/women).
Acon.:
Nightmare, nightly raving, anxious starts up in sleep (child/woman).
Alum.: In her dream it seems to her as if
the dream would soon pass over if she could turn on her side, but she is not
able to do so.
Am-c.: Nightmare every night in heart disease.
Bapt.: Afraid to go to sleep; fears
nightmare and suffocation.
Bell.: Sleep is extremely restless due to
congestion in the head. Can not close eyes, he sees dreadful images on doing so.
Child awakes frightened from sleep.
Borx.: Infant frequently cries out in its
sleep, and seriously grasps its mother, as if been frightened by a dream.
Cann-i.:
Nightmare every night as soon as he falls asleep.
Cedr.: Dreams of quarrelling with dead;
cried about it and awoke with a nightmare, with sensation of a stone in the
stomach.
Cham.: Child awakens as if he had awful
dream,
Cinnb.: Waking suddenly after midnight, as if
from a dream, he has no breath, like a nightmare. Restless sleep, nightmare
after midnight.
Con.: Nightmare due to anaemia of brain.
Cot.: Nightmare with sense as if he could
not escape from inability to see.
Cycl.:
Nightmare on falling asleep, Unrefreshing sleep interfused with terrible dreams.
Dig.: Nightmare in spermatorrhoea.
Dor.: Wild dreams; screams as if in great
distress.
Gels.: Nightmare as if left side from neck
to knee, were jerking up and down like a mass of jelly; this motion extending
into chest and centring at heart.
Guai.:
Nightmare when lying on the back (Card-m.), waking with screams, feels unrefreshed when waking up.
Ign.: Sleep disturbed by nightmare, or by
starts and frequent dreams.
Indium-met.: Nightmare from lying on back; very
stupid on awaking.
Kali-br.: Acute
mania of children, when they arouse from sleep with screams and imagine that
some one is going to hurt them. Child shrieks out in sleep and wants to cling
to the nurse.
Kali-c.: Nightmare, at night, with a dream as
if a stone was lying upon him, and at the same time the larynx were being gradully constricted.
Kali-n.: Disturbed sleep at night with
nightmares.
Kali-s.: Nightmare; dreams anxious of death.
Led.: Fears to go to sleep lest she would
die. Throat feels swollen, sensation of suffocation.
Lyc.: She
starts up full of anxiety from sleep wishes to cry out, but cannot, as if in
nightmare.
Mag-m.: Anxious and frightful dreams, with talking and cries during sleep. Nightmare.
Nat-m.: während Fieber
Nux-v.: während
Fieber
Sulph.: in Rückenlage
Albträume
Die Hälfte aller Erwachsenen schreckt nachts hin und wieder aus Albträumen hoch, oft hängen sie mit schlimmen Ereignissen oder unbewältigten Konflikten zusammen.
Geschieht das mehrmals pro Woche, empfiehlt sich eine Psychotherapie.
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