Research: Long Sleep Makes More Illogical Dreams

Research: Long Sleep Makes More Illogical Dreams. The dream is not something that is real, so it is only natural that sometimes his story less plausible. A study showed, dreams tend to be increasingly illogical along with the longer sleep duration.

"We found that keanehannya increases, the dream of the night still early until late," said Josie Malinowski from the University of Bedfordshire who publishes his study of dreams in the Dreaming, the journal quoted from Time Sunday (21/9/2014).

It was revealed during this cognitive psychology lecturers observe a sleeping 16 people. The observations also showed, dreams about everyday things show up when someone's bed are still at an early stage. New life events will appear later.

In addition to the duration of sleep, weather factors can also affect the nightmare. Similarly with health conditions, for example, a person tends to be more susceptible to experiencing a nightmare while having the infection. This was revealed in the study Patrick McNamara of Harvard Medical School.

"At the moment we are experiencing an infection, with or without fever, the body's need to sleep with a slower waves so that the immune system can fight the germ. In turn, could trigger a strange nightmare, a vivid dream, "explained Dr. McNamara.

Meanwhile, a study in 2008 revealed that women more often experience nightmares than men. As many as 30 percent of women experienced it, whereas in males only 19 percent. Increased chance of emergence of a nightmare while experiencing premenstrual syndrome (PMS).