Why Snoring and Sleep Apnea Is Not Your Worst Nightmare

You probably know many of the complications and irritations snoring and sleep apnea can cause.

But nightmares, sleep walking and even violence, have not been associated with snoring and sleep apnea before.

Norwegian scientists decided to put these things to the test and published their shocking findings in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.

The scientists suspected that people with sleep apnea (and people who snore and have undiagnosed sleep apnea) could suffer from other parasomnias as well.

Parasomnias include nightmares, sleepwalking, sleep paralysis, the acting out of dreams, noises, and hallucinations while falling asleep.

Like sleep apnea itself, parasomnias lead to daytime sleepiness and fatigue, and many of them are actually scary to experience.

The scientists recruited 4,372 patients, referred from a Norwegian university hospital, with suspicion of sleep apnea.

When diagnosed, 34.7% of their subjects did not have sleep apnea, 32.5% had mild apnea, 17.4% had moderate apnea, and 15.3% suffered from severe apnea.

43.8% of those with sleep apnea suffered from extreme nightmares.

Furthermore, 3.3% of them sleepwalked, 2.5% exhibited sleep-related violence, 3.1% performed sexual acts during sleep, and 1.7% struggled with sleep-related eating.

The good news is that both snoring and sleep apnea (and potentially nightmares) can be eliminated through the use of the simple throat exercises found here…