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     Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder which repeatedly prevents or stops its victim from breathing. The disease cannot kill people but the complications can shorten ones lifespan. It dramatically lowers ones sleep quality and makes it almost impossible to wake up well rested.      There are three different types of sleep apnea - obstructive sleep apnea, central sleep apnea and complex sleep apnea syndrome. The first occurs when ones throat muscles relax. The second happens when our brain doesn't send proper signals to muscles that control breathing. The last one is a combination of the first two and is the most lethal.      Loud snoring, gasping for air during sleep, waking up with a dry mouth and hypersomnia are common symptoms of sleep apnea. It's very hard to find out ourselves that we have sleep apnea and round 38 thousand people die from the disorder annually. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sleep-apnea/symptoms-causes/syc-...

    Scientists estimate that an average person spends around 47% of their active time daydreaming. Doing so is considered healthy, as it enables us to slow down and collect our thoughts. Some people though, may experience daydreams so intensive that they get distracted very easily. Such a condition is called Maladaptive daydreaming or daydreaming disorder. It usually gets  triggered by stimuli such as smell, noise, sound or even conversation topics. Maladaptive daydreaming can develop as a coping mechanisim in response to trauma or sustained and prolonged stress - it helps to switch off while feeling stressed out. Usually people who already suffer from other mental illnesses or disorders are prone to this condition. OCD, depression and anxiety might be the primary cause of developing maladaptive daydreaming.  https://www.sleepfoundation.org/mental-health/maladaptive-daydreaming

       Everyone has had at least a single weird dream that they simply can't forget. When we go to sleep our minds stay active and create vivid images in which we expierience either surreal events or go through very basic things. What we dream of very often depends on what we do before going to sleep, what we went through during the day and some even bring out things that we are trying to ignore or forget.     Lucid dreams are a specific type of dream in which you're aware that you're dreaming and most often you are able to control what's happening in your dream. This phenomenon is quite rare but you can increase the chance of it happening to you by building your sense of self-awareness. There are different ways and techniques by which you can initiate this kind of a dream,     Nightmares are dreams that are scary, usually they happen randomly without a good scientifical reasoning behind them. Most common themes of this kind of sleep are violence,...