• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Nightmares And “Daymares” Could Be Signs Of An Autoimmune Disease

May 21, 2024 by Deborah Bloomfield

Nightmares and “daymares” could be an early warning sign of an autoimmune disease according to a new study. Troubling dreams and daytime hallucinations could provide advance warning of the arrival of diseases like lupus, and a greater awareness of them both from patients and doctors could lead to improved management of a person’s autoimmune conditions.

Advertisement

The study looked at 676 people with lupus, spoke to 400 clinicians, and interviewed 69 people about their experiences living with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases, which lupus falls under. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune condition that can cause joint pain, rashes, and fatigue. There’s currently no cure, but the symptoms can be managed with medication.

Advertisement

The numerous discussions turned up a common symptom experienced by three in five patients in the lead-up to the onset of lupus: disrupted dream sleep. Hallucinations were also reported by just under one in four patients, often with vivid distressing nightmares as a precursor.

The nightmares often involved being attacked, trapped, getting crushed, or falling. Terming the hallucinations “daymares” proved to be a positive step in getting patients to register their symptoms in a way that felt less stigmatized.

“[When] you said that word daymare and as soon as you said that it just made sense, it’s like not necessarily scary, it’s just like you’ve had a dream and yet you’re sitting awake in the garden,” said a patient from England. “I see different things, it’s like I come out of it and it’s like when you wake up and you can’t remember your dream and you’re there but you’re not there… it’s like feeling really disorientated, the nearest thing I can think of is that I feel like I’m Alice in Wonderland.”

The clinicians involved in the study agreed that nightmares and daymares could be a useful “early warning system” of an oncoming flare for autoimmune disease. Making patients better informed about what these symptoms can mean, could enable them to work together to manage flares before they become severe.

Advertisement

“We have long been aware that alterations in dreaming may signify changes in physical, neurological and mental health, and can sometimes be early indicators of disease,” said Professor Guy Leschziner, a study author and neurologist at Guys’ and St Thomas’ Hospital, and author of The Secret World of Sleep, in a statement.

“However, this is the first evidence that nightmares may also help us monitor such a serious autoimmune condition like lupus, and is an important prompt to patients and clinicians alike that sleep symptoms may tell us about impending relapse.”

The study is published in the journal EClinicalMedicine.

Deborah Bloomfield
Deborah Bloomfield

Related posts:

  1. Cricket-Pope and Bairstow rebuild England innings after Yadav blows
  2. BAE Systems says ready to support new U.S., UK, Australia defence partnership
  3. The Neurology Of Taste: How Your Brain Perceives Flavor
  4. Fantastic Corpse Myths And How To Debunk Them

Source Link: Nightmares And “Daymares” Could Be Signs Of An Autoimmune Disease

Filed Under: News

Primary Sidebar

  • A Spinning Island Lake In Argentina Looms Out Of The Swamps Like An Eyeball
  • Mammals Have Evolved Into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since The Dinosaurs Went Extinct
  • Thieving Pulsar Spinning 592 Times A Second Reveals New Understanding Of Where Its X-Rays Come From
  • The Rise And Fall (And Lamentable Rise) Of The “Alpha Male” Myth
  • IFLScience The Big Questions: How Do Black Holes Shape The Universe?
  • North America’s Smallest Turtle Is The Cutest Thing You’ll Find In A Bog
  • “Unambiguous Signal” To Curb Emissions Now: Long-Lost Aerial Photos Reveal Evolution Of Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse
  • 8 Children Have Been Born With 3 Biological Parents Each After Mitochondrial Transfer
  • First Known Observations Of Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry In Special Particle Decay
  • In 1973, NASA Sent Two Spiders Into Space To See If They Can Spin Webs – And They Learnt A Lot
  • Meet The Many Species Of Freaky Looking “Assassin Spiders” That Only Eat Other Spiders
  • Your Dog’s TV Preferences Might Reveal Their Personality
  • Some Human Gut Bacteria Can Absorb Harmful Toxic “Forever Chemicals” So They Can Be Pooped Out
  • You Could Float Through 10 Countries Before The World’s Most International River Spat You Out
  • Enormous Coronal Hole And Beast-Like Crawling Prominences Dazzle On The Active Sun
  • Dramatic Drone Footage Of Iceland’s Latest Volcanic Eruption Shows An Epic Scene From Hell
  • A Shrimp That Lives In A Tree? Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains Are Home To Some Seriously Strange Wildlife
  • Is NASA’s Claim That Saturn Could Float On Water Really True?
  • Pangea Proxima: This Is What Planet Earth May Look Like 250 Million Years In The Future
  • The Story Of Dogxim, The Fox-Dog Hybrid That Shouldn’t Have Existed
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version