Many people have the distress that after going to sleep, they often have nightmares and are even awakened. As a result of poor sleep, the next day dizziness, affecting work and study. Some are also worried that nightmares will bring them bad luck, causing psychological fear and anxiety. In fact, dreaming is a normal psychological phenomenon that occurs during sleep. Generally speaking, the nerve cells in the brain are in a state of inhibition during sleep, and this inhibition process is sometimes complete and sometimes not complete enough. If they are not completely inhibited, there are still a few areas of the cerebral cortex where the nerve cells are excited, and the person will have dreams. Since the activity of a few cells loses the control and regulation of the whole cerebral cortex in the awakened state, certain fragments of memory become active unrestrainedly, and may show a variety of strange dreams different from the normal mental activity. At this time, if the nerve cells related to language and movement are also in an excited state, then not only will dreams appear, but also sleep talking or sleepwalking will occur. What can be done to reduce nightmares? Pay attention to the body position of sleep. Generally, it is better to sleep on the right side. When sleeping on your back, hands and feet are naturally vertical, and the pillow should not be too high. To correct the bad habit of sleeping on your back. Recent research findings also confirm the idea that dreams are the result of the brain’s regulatory center balancing various functions of the body, and that dreams are necessary for healthy brain development and maintenance of normal thinking. If the regulating center of the brain is damaged, it will not be able to form dreams, or only some fragmented dream fragments, if long-term dreamless sleep, it is worth people to be alarmed. Of course, if a long period of nightmares, it is often a sign of physical weakness or certain diseases. Chinese medicine believes that different dreams correspond to different physical and mental, and the treatment methods are different. 1.Sleeping in the day and dreaming in the night (spleen) are people who often dream about trivial things that happened during the day, who are light sleepers and whose consciousness is still active. People who have these dreams have poor digestion (stomach) and absorption (spleen). According to Chinese medicine, when a person is asleep, the soul is resting, but the spirit is still working, and the stomach and intestines are still moving, digesting and absorbing. Poor spleen and stomach function, the work of the spirit alone is not enough to complete the task, we have to mobilize the soul should be resting to help it work, and this produces dreams and drooling. For this kind of dream caused by poor digestion, we should help him to improve his digestion and absorption function, and improve his prana, so that when he digests food at night, he does not have to disturb his soul, and his dream will be less. 2, bizarre dream of wandering outside (liver) often have some bizarre dreams, not related to their own lives, dreams of things that are inexplicable, this kind of dream we call it “wandering outside, the soul is not attached to the body”, related to the liver. “The liver collects blood, and the blood regulates the soul. People who have these dreams can not collect blood, can not hide the soul; we generally use the method of nourishing liver blood to help him collect the soul, sleep at ease. In this regard, Chinese medicine has a formula – sour date soup: we generally sour date seeds fried after it decoction boiled water, plus some counter-supporting plants, including our commonly used Poring, Poring, also known as Fu Shen, has a calming effect. 3, strange dreams and nightmares (kidney) often strange dreams, nightmares, dreams of falling from a high building, or being chased, or seeing bloody scenes, or being bitten by dogs, snake bites, or dreams of dead people, or dreams of falling into a dirty place. This situation is considered by Chinese medicine to be a problem of the kidneys, which are the main body of fright and fear. If a person’s kidney energy or kidney essence is damaged, he or she will often have some more frightening dreams. Usually people who have these dreams have had some experience of losing their essence or being frightened, or there have been changes in their families or relatives. For these people, we generally use hot medicine to help them remove cold phlegm and blood stasis; in addition to adding mineral medicine. Chinese medicine believes that mineral medicine is heavier and can remove timidity. The mineral medicines we generally choose are dragon bone, oyster, shell, and magnet. If the dream is particularly frightening, we will use a small amount of vermilion. When these people get rid of the cold, phlegm and stagnant blood, these dreams will disappear naturally. Zhuangzi has said, “A real person has no dreams.” For a healthy person, it should be a sleep as soon as you open your eyes and as soon as you close your eyes, you won’t feel so tired. So when we have insomnia or dreamy, we must be aware that we are in a state of subhealth and should carry out self-care.