Section 29 Essay—The Problem of Insomnia
Insomnia is perhaps a more common problem. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Insomnia in the average person is temporary, accidental, and not very harmful.
However, insomnia in people with mental illness is long-lasting and regular.
They may only get three or four hours of sleep at night, or even less.
But during the day, it's easy to fall asleep when you shouldn't.
It seems that their biological clock is reversed from that of ordinary people.
Insomnia is often accompanied by dreams.
And the dreams are extremely chaotic.
There may also be the other extreme, dreamless.
The coping with insomnia should be both simple and complex.
The most popular is what people often say: count the stars.
It is to concentrate attention by silently counting in the mind, and to numb the excited brain with mechanical numbers.
But sometimes it is very complicated, and even requires the help of drugs.
Now, I want to say that I see insomnia as a psychological balance mechanism, not simply as a pathology.
If you are careful, you may be able to see that insomniacs sometimes like to sleep in the early hours of the morning or during the day, which is used to make up for the night's sleep.
This is an unanalytical, obvious conclusion.
However, on this basis, the deeper meaning is little known.
This means that the insomniac's black-and-white sleep is actually a normal desire of his subconscious.
It's just that it was accidentally suppressed and manifested in sleep.
This desire is that they have a normal, independent personality and will not easily compromise with others; But because of the unexpected suppression of instinct, it has become excessively compromised and accommodating; However, that independent normal personality will not disappear; Subconsciously, they still don't like to be overly swayed and constrained. So, in sleep it manifests itself - not to "play cards" according to the rules.
Deeper: they are afraid of "tomorrow", afraid that tomorrow happiness will disappear; So concentrate the pleasure in the dark night before dawn and enjoy it in advance; And it makes the brain extremely excited, unable to sleep.
By the next day, they found that they still had the opportunity to pursue pleasure, so they were able to sleep peacefully.
Of course, these are all hidden subconscious thoughts.
Not obviously.
Moreover, these are all more theoretical concepts.
In the end, it is necessary to return to the real memory of the insomniac person himself in order to find and solve the root cause of insomnia.
In the case of the previous example:
When S's man broke into his home, some "aggressors" threatened his and his mother's lives.
And his instinct to resist at that time was unexpectedly thwarted.
Specifically, the interruption of "breathing". ("Breathing" has an extremely secret mother-child connection.) )
Causes a hallucination based on syncope.
And after waking up, it was the next day, but that horrible scene had been left in his mind because it was not discharged by instinct in time at that time.
Anxiety that led him to fear "tomorrow".
If you can continue to understand the following chapters related to "Mind and Body", you can understand that breath and skin are also related.
This correlation is similar to "ventriloquism".
Knowing this, you should be able to come to a conclusion about overcoming insomnia: let your breath be smooth, your skin open, and remember the feeling of safety in your mother's arms as a child.