Many people will encounter such a situation when they are sleeping. When they wake up from sleep, they are conscious but their bodies can't move. This is called "ghost presses the bed" in the folk. So, what is "ghost pressing bed"? How does it come into being? How can we prevent "ghost pressing bed"? Today's Sihai net editor came to talk to you about ghost pressing bed. Don't be superstitious about all kinds of feudal superstitions about ghost pressing bed in the future!
What is "ghost press bed"? Many people don't know about it, so they blame it on superstition and think it's caused by ghosts. But in fact, the emergence of "ghost press bed" has medical basis. There is a professional term in medicine for "ghost pressing bed", which is called sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis usually occurs in the period of rapid eye movement, which is often accompanied by dreams. It is a stage in the sleep cycle.
When the human body is in the period of rapid eye movement, the skeletal muscles except the respiratory muscles and the ophthalmic muscles are in a state of extremely low tension, but this is actually a kind of self-protection, which can avoid people in the sleep state to make actions with the dream and hurt themselves or the pillow side people. Sleep paralysis is the stage of rapid eye movement. For some reasons, although the consciousness has recovered, the muscles of the body are still in a low tension state, so it is easy for the body to disobey the command of the consciousness.
How does "ghost press bed" come into being?
Since "ghost press bed" is a kind of disease, there are natural causes. "Ghost pressure bed" has something to do with people's mental pressure. People with high life pressure, often staying up late, insomnia and anxiety are easy to be recruited. Clinical studies have shown that ghost pressure bed mostly occurs in people who sleep on their back. In addition, heavy quilts and too much food can also lead to the phenomenon of ghost pressure bed. People who have the experience of "ghost pressing bed" can go to the Department of Neurology and psychology of the hospital for treatment. Through polysomnography monitoring, they can confirm whether their brain waves will change under different sleep conditions, and check the sleep structure (generally, people's sleep is composed of light sleep period, deep sleep period and rapid eye movement period. During the whole night's sleep, these periods appear in proportion to form a Sleep structures. ）If necessary, medication can be carried out.
How to prevent "ghost press bed"?
Although 'ghost pressing' will not lead to serious consequences, it should also be actively avoided, so how to prevent 'ghost pressing'? Professor Tang Xiangdong, sleep medical center of West China Hospital, Sichuan University, said that sleeping in the side position can prevent 'ghost pressing' because the side position will keep part of the body muscles in tension. In addition, keeping the regularity of work and rest can also avoid the appearance of "ghost pressure bed", because overwork, drugs, alcohol and mental pressure are all the reasons leading to the appearance of "ghost pressure bed".
Tang Xiangdong also reminds us that when "ghost presses the bed", people can try to gently move their fingers, tongue and other parts, so as to wake up the whole body muscles.
Peng Zhiping, a member of the sleep expert committee of the Chinese Medical Association and director of the information science popularization Department of the Chinese Sleep Research Association, conducted a scientific check.