Why we dream, and what happens when we don’t

In a normal day we accumulate some level of emotional stress and for many of us, we use the evening meal to talk things out and ‘deal’ with these normal daily events. If we do not manage to do that and take these ‘upsets’ to bed with us it doesn’t matter because we have an alternative way of dealing with them automatically programmed into our sleep – we dream.

When we dream, we ‘play out’ any unresolved issues from the previous day in metaphor, thus waking up in the morning, fresh and ready for the new day. We can look back at the previous day’s upset and calmly question why we reacted in such a way – how silly we were being, or how badly someone else had behaved. We are clear minded and objective – emotionally calm.

However, when we carry with us some long-term unresolved emotional baggage from either past happenings (childhood abuse, school bullying, relationship issues) as well as current daily events, sometimes we get to a level where our sleep just can’t cope – we get disturbed sleep. You may even have told someone that you ‘haven’t slept well for years’.

When our sleep is disturbed, our automatic emotion-calming process no longer operates and instead of being better in the morning, we can often feel worse (exhausted).

This starts our day off on the wrong foot, and sure enough – things only get worse, leading to a repeat the following night. We become trapped in a cycle of poor sleep, increased emotional upset, tough day, poor sleep.

Poor sleep is a symptom of excess emotional baggage. As soon as this baggage is ‘calmed down’ normal sleep can be restored. This can be done quickly and effectively using HG therapy.