“When you are more awake at nights, they'll toss and turn, they'll think more, they get frustrated. And when that starts to happen, you really don't sleep even more because you're making your body tense and your mind is getting more and more active.” ThinkingMindBodyHappensNightTurnsSleepActiveYour BodyAwakeFrustratedTenseTossAwake At Night Author:Shelby Harris
“So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity.” PeopleIfsThinkingBodyRhythmClockFarmsElectricityCircadian Rhythm Author:Shelby Harris
“Jet lag depends on which direction you're going and it can be a little complicated, but there are a few different treatments. So one would be if you're going somewhere - sorry it's hard to think about it.” IfsThinkingLittlesDifferentHardWould BeDependsSorryComplicatedTreatmentJetLagJet Lag Author:Shelby Harris
“There are other people that think that dreams actually do serve a purpose. But what that purpose is, we're not really sure. So some people believe that it actually does have some psychological representation of what's going on in the day, but there's no need to sit and really analyze it.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveDoeDreamPurposePsychologicalRepresentation Author:Shelby Harris
“Nightmares are distinctly different from dreams in the way that people feel them and experience them. So a lot of people think that a nightmare is something where something is chasing them and you have to wake up screaming. Yes, that's one of the more common nightmares that we see is the person chasing someone or they're being chased.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsPersonsDifferentDreamCommonWake UpNightmareChasing Author:Shelby Harris
“When it comes to the reason why we have nightmares, we're still debating that. It's a new area of research, nightmares. And the way I like to think about it is, our brain - we have stress during the day and our brain needs to learn to process this stress.” ThinkingWayNeedsStillsReasonProcessBrainResearchAreasStressReason WhyNightmare Author:Shelby Harris
“Night terrors are very different from nightmares. A lot of people will think they're the same, but they're really not. Night terrors - you want to look at the time of night when you're having the problem. Night Terrors happen in deep sleep. Nightmares tend to happen in a lighter REM sleep.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksDifferentProblemHappensNightSleepTerrorNightmareLightersDeep SleepNight Terrors Author:Shelby Harris
“Night terrors are in deep sleep, and they're more common in kids, as are nightmares, but what happens in a night terror is like a flash - we think a flash of some image or something happens in the brain. We don't really quite know what. And it usually ends up with the child screaming almost like screaming bloody murder. It's very scary for the parents or whoever else is around.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenEndsHappensKidsNightParentSleepCommonBrainMurderTerrorScaryThings HappenNightmareFlashBloodyDeep SleepNight Terrors Author:Shelby Harris
“We think is happening in the brain, the way I like to think about it is, it's almost like, you're brain is going through all these stages of sleep and it's developing in children so fast that it's almost like you're shifting gears in a car. And at some point, you actually stall out a little bit, and that's kind of what happens during a night terror.” ThinkingWayKindChildrenLittlesHappensNightBitsSleepBrainStageCarLike YouLittle BitHappeningsTerrorDevelopingShiftingGearsNight Terrors Author:Shelby Harris
“Some patients will report that they have sleep paralysis. If we see sleep paralysis alone and nothing else, we don't really think all that much of it, but if we see other symptoms, then it might be a red flag for something else that's going on.” IfsThinkingMightSleepRedPatientReportsFlagsSymptomsParalysisRed Flags Author:Shelby Harris
