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Nightmares!! Let’s see how we can help you.

Heavy breathing!!

Sweating!!

Sobbing… Sometimes screaming!!

All of this just when you were sound asleep. God’s creativity is such, we humans keep getting new puzzles every day. Sleep is one such miracle, and so are dreams. Sleep is for peace and rewiring your mind, but then sometimes, scary dreams haunt us. Having a nightmare once in a while is ok, but if they are repetitive, or disturbing your sleep, or may be dream memories tormenting you through the day, they need to be taken care of.

In homeopathy, we have this question for everyone: Do you get dreams at night? Followed by the type of dreams, waking you from sleep or not? Timing of having them? And so on.

If nightmares, what kind of nightmares? Maybe you see ghosts- sometimes familiar faces, sometimes unknown faces haunt you. Nightmares may be a wild chase as in the jungle being hunted, or may be you subconsciously fear particular creatures or situations that take over while you are asleep. Do not worry, if you or your loved ones, anybody is having trouble with any kind of nightmares, Homeopathy has a platter to offer, and so do we @chikitsailaaj.com are determined to serve you well.

Many times, children shriek in sleep, wake up crying; sometimes it’s just what they watched on TV or mobile, but many times, it may represent their inner fear as well. It may be so that your child isn’t great at sharing his all day stories and is prone to suffer from inwards and shrieks or shakes during sleep. Smaller kids may wake up crying, terrified; you’ve got to figure it out, what is it?

The best first aid for children is assurance from their guardians, and yes, every parent does his/her best to comfort their child, yet sometimes it’s not enough.

When these episodes start taking a toll on you or the child, you must approach a homeopathic doctor; surely you will get adequate help.

Nightmares may be just a replay of what we have watched on screen the whole day or read through newspapers/books, etc. We really need to look into and segregate the reason behind it. Sometimes, we get absorbed in certain thoughts so much that it becomes difficult to believe what was real and what was a dream and this implies to each one of us, it may not be repetitive  but it happens. Few people develop unrealistic phobias as they age or some get delusions of poverty etc. All of such emotions do contribute to the scary dreams as well.  Here is the beauty of the Homeopathy approach, where solely the word nightmare won’t be taken care of. In Homeopathy, we just don’t treat one particular symptom but we consider an individual as a whole, a deeper detailed study to get the right similimum for every individual case.

I remember a case almost over a decade ago, a 6-year-old boy was brought to me in the clinic, the only symptom was night terror, the child didn’t want to fall asleep due to fear of getting bad dreams.   In the day child was super active, fearless, and playful, but no sooner told to go to bed, it was a war at home with parents. He didn’t allow them to turn off the lights, going to bathroom without anybody accompanying him was another problem. I asked him why? First little reluctant, then I held him and pulled him in my lap just as my own child, here came the story. He was told by his friends that they had seen a real-life ‘chudail’ and she hunts on small kids like him when they are asleep or go to use washroom at night. Some older kid had shown his scar on his forehand claiming that it was done by the ‘chudail’  while he went to use the washroom at night. This repetitive story and daytime play regarding the same had engraved fear in this boys mind and to the parents surprise, he never told them this story; he used to tell them that a huge hand hand is coming to grasp him as soon as he enters the washroom. Poor kid was so scared, anybody will be in case of such visuals, obvisouly they weren’t real though. I repertorized the case homeopathically, taking note of his personal history and general symptoms. The case-specific medicine was given, with a strong assurance that this Chudail would be scared of him if he ate well and started taking this medicine in time, as he would become invisible to her and could easily scare her away. And thank goodness, the child stopped having those night terrors within 2 weeks, and since then, he visited me multiple times till COVID times; he never had any nightmares ever again.

There are several such instances where we feel overwhelmed or skeptical, but a step with a calm and sorted mind is the legitimate solution. Such instances are health-wise too, so if you know someone who needs help with nightmares, you know where to get help from, we are here to help.