Trapped in a Nightmare

I know some old people who claim that they have never had nightmares, they say that they are too optimistic. What if a healthy diet and the use of some pills had more to do with nightmares than an optimistic attitude?

Recent research has shown that sleeping pills, a diet rich in lithium and some other pharmacological agents affecting neurotransmitters are likely to cause or increase nightmares, since they tamper with the neurochemical composition of a healthy brain activity.

On one side an insuficient ammount of lithium in your diet may lead to an increase in the amount of nightmares and even to a mental illnesses which are in fact treated with lithium. This way, it is very important to have the correct amount of grain, pulses, fruits and other food that contain high amount of lithium.

Another important factor to consider is whether you are using any sleeping pills or anti-depressants which are likely to cause sleeping disorders, since they are designed to tamper with your neurotransmitters in order to help you overcome this type of condition and it might happen that your condition is not that bad, but the prescribed d medication causes you terrible nightmares.

Also is important to consider that some medication to treat infectious diseases may cause nightmares to the patient taking them. 

Considering the factors mentioned above I dare to say that highly probable that we have to re-consider what we think to be the causes of a terrible night sleep. First of all people who suffer constantly from nightmares such as post-traumatic stress patients, depressive or bipolar people are under medication that according to recent data may increase their nightmares; thus, their condition may not be as bad as their nightmares tell them.

If you thought nightmares were a children condition and that is not normal to have them as an adult, but you are suffering from nightmares anyways, you should ask yourself if you follow a healthy diet or if you are under any pharmacological agent that could affect your neurotransmitters.

As for people who have never suffered from nightmares, they must be doing something right.