![]() People who experience nightmares may find themselves jolting awake in the middle of the night, often able to recall the terrifying dream that disrupted their sleep. See also Sleep paralysis, and Incubus and succubus entries in SPIRITS AND GHOSTS. There is not much evidence that night terrors reflect deep psychological problems and occasional night terrors are considered quite normal in young children. You should instead let the night terror run its course and the child will rarely recall the event in the morning. Night terrors tend to be most common in children between the ages of three and eight, and most sleep experts urge parents and carers not to rush to their child to try and wake and comfort them as this can intensify or aggravate the night terror. It is important to consult a doctor if this is the case. If you or someone you know experiences more than three or four episodes of night terror a month, then you or they might be suffering from an anxiety disorder. If the terror wakes the sleeper up, they may recall a single image of terror but if they fall back to sleep there is unlikely to be any recall of the feeling. In adults, alcohol, stress, fever or lack of sleep may trigger night terrors and they are believed to have their basis in a purely biological function. Subjects may scream or yell during an episode and flail their arms and legs around or sit upright in bed. ![]() There will also be a classic physiological response to fear, with dilated pupils, confusion or panic and sweat. There is typically an increase in heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. The person may wake up for about twenty seconds and in most cases settle back to sleep. They typically occur within the first few hours of going to sleep. Also known as sleep terrors, night terrors occur during non-REM sleep, not during REM sleep when the majority of us dream. Sometimes shown by escaping from a house at night and running away. And sometimes freedom we may be constrained by the social or moral rules we apply to ourself during the ‘day’ or waking consciousness, but on the edge of consciousness, or in sleep, we find a wonderful freedom which allows us escape. Also loneliness areas of subtly felt urges or feelings. In the example the secrecy occurs because pans of Tom’s childhood experience were ‘hidden’ behind the forgetfulness or unconsciousness of emotional hurt. Usually the unconscious, dark or little-sensed areas of oneself. In darkness I and others were trying to accomplish some secret act, rather as spies or underground agents might’ (Tom). Also being conscious, seeing’ what we are doing, our waking experience.Įxample: I was creeping through a field at night. In the example Kim feels bright and cheerful.Īn overcast day would be the reverse. boat, ship dream meaningĮxample: It was a beautiful hot sunny day, and I was in a children’s playground talking to a woman I knew vaguely’ (Kim B). ![]() Idioms: burn one’s boats in the same boat miss the boat rock the boat ships that pass in the night ship comes in a tight ship. Embarking alone: independence or loneliness. Disembarking: leaving a phase of life, such as motherhood or marriage. Ferryboat: if across a river, death, end of a relationship transition from one phase of life to another. Motorboat: similar to car, but more sense of isolation or aloneness. Anchored boat: security stable relationship opposite of drifting. Boat journey by night: classic archetype of searching for one’s roots in life the journey into the unconscious. Going on a cruise: desiring relationship with others, or to be a pan of other people’s lives. Small boat with one other person: one’s relationship with that person. Lots of small boats: other people’s relationships. Leaving boat but leaving bag on it: lack of identity, alone-perhaps when children have gone or job ended. The ship sinking : fear of relationship ending-could be children leaving mother, so the collective ‘boat journey’ has finished illness death. Rudder: sureness about direction in life. Bows: one’s strength to meet life’s changes. Many boat/ship dreams depict something else: a situation we are involved in with other people which is difficult to get out of, such as marriage, business partnership, armed forces. The sea is very rough and I am afraid the boat will sink’ (Ron D). ‘I am in a large glass boat with my wife. The dream occurred a few weeks before a breakdown centering on the dreamer’s wife leaving him. Our journey through the seas of life and how we meet the rough and smooth experiences, as with following example.
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