REM Sleep Disorder

RBD or REM Sleep Disorder While Rare Can Cause Turmoil in Your Life

There could be a sound reason behind your sleep deprivation, insomnia, sleep walking behavior, or your propensity to talk during sleeping. You just might suffer from a REM sleep disorder or rapid eye movement sleep disorder ( RBD ). Unlike cpap-curable obstructive breathing, snoring, or apnea, rapid eye movement sleep behavior ( RBD ) disorder causes its victims to act out their dreams during the rapid eye movement stage of sleeping (rapid eye movement) and depending on the dreams, acts can range from harmless mumbling to committing violence. Or it can cause sleep paralysis.

The cause of REM sleep behavior disorder is still unknown, but the fact that this sleep disorder occurs during rapid eye movement can tell us a lot. For example, the brain waves during rapid eye movement dreams resemble brain waves that exist during the wakeful state. That alone tells us that the cognitive brain areas of its victims aren't able to recognize dreams for what they are or states of sleeping and thus react to them with appropriate behavior.

The brain's chemistry behind (RBD) reveal blockage (and non-blockage) of certain neurotransmitters. When neurotransmitters aren't blocked, victims of (RBD) are prone to act out their behavior in dreams. In most cases, victims of (RBD) don't remember the things that they do under this state of sleep even though they're able to fully recall the dream that might have prompted active behavior.

As potentially dangerous as this disorder sounds, it's victims usually restrict their movements to their own bed. This restriction isn't purposeful of course, as they have no idea what they're doing at the time. However some reposts have shown us that a small percentage of victims have left the bed in which they were sleeping, and proceeded to walk out of the house, drive a car, or do any number of things all while sleeping. An effective treatment or cure is still under development.