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The Latin saying says that the clearest thing in life is death, and uncertainty refers to the hour of life. But in life there are situations when there is no real possibility to define a clear line between life and death. The speech in this article will focus on lethargic sleep, as one of the most incomprehensible states of the body, which can not be explained by scientists from all over the world. What is a lethargic dream?

Lethargic dream is a morbid state of a person, very close and similar to a dream, for which immobility, absence of reactions to any external stimuli, as well as a sharp decrease in all external signs of life are characteristic.

Lethargic sleep can last as long as several hours, and stretch out to several weeks and only rarely comes to several months, years. Lethargic sleep is also observed in the hypnotic state

Lethargic dream - the causes of

The causes of a lethargic sleep are such states as hysteria, general exhaustion - anorexia, severe excitement, stress

Signs of lethargic sleep

It is very difficult to distinguish a person who has fallen asleep from a deceased person. Breathing imperceptible, the body temperature becomes the same as the environment;Heartbeat barely perceptible( up to 3 beats per minute).

When a person wakes up, he immediately catches up with his calendar age. People grow old with lightning

Lethargic dream - symptoms

With a lethargic dream, the consciousness of the asleep is usually preserved and the patients perceive, and also remember everything around them, but they can not react to it.

It is necessary to be able to distinguish and isolate the disease from encephalitis, as well as narcolepsy. In the most severe cases, a picture of imaginary death appears when the skin becomes cold and pale, and the pupils completely cease to react to light, while breathing, as well as pulse, is difficult to feel, blood pressure is lowered, and increased pain stimuli are not capable of causing any reactions. For several days, the diseased do not drink or eat, there comes a stop in the release of urine, as well as feces, there is a sharp loss of weight and dehydration of the body.

Only in mild cases of sleep there is immobility, even breathing, muscle relaxation, rare eyelid twitching, and rolling up eyeballs. Capable of swallowing, as well as chewing and swallowing. Part of the ability to retain the perception of the environment. When feeding is impossible, the process of maintaining the organism is carried out with the help of a probe.

Symptoms are difficult to determine and what kind of nature they would not have, there are many unanswered questions.

Some doctors refer the disease to metabolic disorders, while others consider it one of the pathologies of sleep. The basis for the latest version was the research conducted by the American physician Eugene Azerinsky. The doctor showed an interesting regularity: in the phase of slow sleep, the human body is like a motionless mummy and only after half an hour a person starts to turn, turn, and also pronounce words. And if it is at this time, the awakening of a person, then it will be very fast, and also easy. After this awakening, the asleep remember what he dreamed. Later this phenomenon was explained as follows: in the fast sleep phase, the activity of the nervous system is extremely high. It is on the phase of shallow, superficial sleep that varieties of lethargic sleep fall. Therefore, leaving this state, patients are able to describe in detail what happened when they were allegedly unconscious.

Because of prolonged immobility, a person returns to the world with a bouquet of illnesses due to sleep( bedsores, vascular atrophy, septic damage to the kidneys, and bronchi).

The longest lethargic dream occurred with 34-year-old Nadezhda Lebedina after a quarrel with her husband. The woman fell asleep in a state of shock and slept for 20 years. This case is included in the Guinness book.

The lethargic dream of Gogol was mistakenly perceived as death. This was indicated by the scratches found on the inner lining of the coffin, and individual fragments of tissue were under the nails, and the position of the body of the genius writer

was changed. Lethargic dream - treatment of

The problem of treatment remains at the present time. Since the end of the 1930s, a short-term awakening was started in this way: first, a sleeping pill was injected intravenously, and then an exciting drug. This method of treatment allowed the living corpse to recover for ten minutes. Effective were hypnosis sessions in treatment.

Often people after awakening say that they have possessed unusual abilities: they started talking in foreign languages, began to read thoughts, and also to cure illnesses.

To this day, the frozen state of the body is a mystery. Presumably - this is an inflammation of the brain, which makes the body tired and he falls asleep.