Stress, Sleep and Dreams

Stress and sleeplessness have a close nexus, each promoting the other. Stress may be caused by financial problems, career instability, ill health, or some untimely mis-happening in the family. This causes andraline to flow in the body prompting it for action, just opposite to sleep.

Sleep is needed to revitalize the body through repairing tissues damaged or decayed during active hours of the body. So a good sleep is essential for keeping in good health. Good health provides more resistance to body to tolerate more of stresses of routine life. When the sleep gets disturbed, the body's resistance is diminished and a little bit of stress may pose a big problem to body and may look more intense than what it really is. This in turn disturbs sleep cycles of the person, thus a vicious cycle gets set in motion.

Sleep is needed by body as well as by brain of the person, but need of the body is always more than that of the brain. While a person is sleeping, the brain gets its due rest quicker than the body. During this difference of time, the brain gets active and causes visualization of dreams by the person. The body of a person is more capable to action than the brain of the person. This means that if body loses on rest, some uneasiness may be felt by the person, but if the brain does not get its full quota of rest, a lot of uneasiness is in store for the person. So, a good amount of dreams is a sure indication of the person taking good amount of rest and rejuvenating his/her body and brain.

A third organ of the body adversely affected by stress and sleeplessness is the heart of the person which must keep its rhythm uninterrupted for a good health. Stress and sleeplessness disturb rhythm of the heart either lowering or raising the blood pressure of the person depending upon whether the person's arteries have slackness or tightness for free flow of blood.