Do babies also have nightmares?

< p > < / p > < p > dreaming is an experience we all have. Some dreams are so beautiful that they are worth pondering over and over again, but some nightmares make people afraid to fall asleep again and again. Does everyone dream? Will infants and young children? < / p > < p > from the perspective of sleep physiology, the process of sleep is actually not a simple two stages of falling asleep and waking up. Sleep can be divided into two categories, one is called REM. Although people are asleep during this period, their eyes are constantly moving. It is also a time to dream during this period. The other stage is called non-REM. During this period, in addition to the non-eye movement, the heartbeat and breathing also showed a normal and regular phenomenon. During the hours of sleep, the period of eye movement has been cycled several times. In other words, I have had several dreams during such a sleep. If you wake up in a non-REM period, you won't feel like you've had a dream. But if you are woken up during the REM period, that is, during the dream stage, you may remember the dream clearly. < / p > < p > babies can also dream < / p > < p > this sleep cycle occurs when the fetus is about eight months old, so it is speculated that even newborn babies should be able to dream, but we don't know what kind of dreams they have in their little heads. < / p > < p > so what about nightmares? Nightmares can be divided into two categories, one is real nightmares, also known as nightmares. This is the stage of REM. 1/5 of school-age children may have this horrific experience. < / p > < p > Children wake up from sleep and remember the terrible dream just now, so they cry loudly and dare not fall asleep right away, and often need the comfort and company of their parents to fall asleep. As the saying goes, 'there is something to think about every day and a dream at night.' It makes sense for this kind of nightmare. Parents do not have to be in a hurry to ask their children what their children are afraid of in the middle of the night, so they might as well be given an immediate sense of security so that they can rest assured and go to sleep. The next day, talk to your children about what they are really afraid of and find ways to deal with psychological stress. < / p > < p > waking up in the middle of the night is not necessarily a dream < / p > < p > another kind of nightmare is not a real dream. We call it 'night thrill'. Children suddenly sit up in sleep shouting or talking in sleep, even breathing, heartbeat and night sweats, eyes glazed, tell them not to answer. A few minutes later, the child lay down quietly and fell asleep again, and the next morning he asked them that he had no recollection of such a thing. < / p > < p > this kind of night creeps occurs during the non-REM period, so it's not a real dream. About 5% of children have experienced this phenomenon, which is related to family inheritance, which means that other people in the family may have had a similar situation. The situation is rather frightening, frightening the family members they see, not themselves. They will be mistaken for soul flying, and will be taken to surprise, or be mistaken for something possessed, and so on. < / p > < p > in fact, there is no harm to me, most of them only happen once or twice once or twice and rarely reappear. Just scared the parents who don't know why. If parents encounter this kind of phenomenon in their children, don't worry. < / p > < p > when it happened, there was no effect in comforting the children, just wipe their sweat. It is worth noting that a small number of children may have the phenomenon of sleepwalking, that is, they may climb out of bed and go out. Once the children have sleepwalking, just keep an eye on them and don't let the sleepwalkers go out the door and get hit. This is by no means soul possession. It's no big deal. < / p >