Dream Enactment Causes & Reasons

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Reported Symptoms

Dream Enactment,

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Possible Causes

Parasomnia Type Sleepwalking

However, sometimes sleep walking can cause harmful dream-enacting behaviors to the sleepwalker and others. ADVERTISEMENT [activebeat.com]

Once you are already asleep, parasomnias often present as abnormal dream-enacting behaviors. [floridachest.com]

Those that occur mainly during periods of REM sleep may result in dream-enacting behaviors. Parasomnia episodes may last just a few seconds or as long as 30 minutes. [soundsleephealth.com]

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Parasomnia

METHODS: From 30 patients with PD, Dementia with Lewy Bodies/Dementia associated with PD, or MSA undergoing nocturnal video-polysomnography for presumed dream enactment behavior [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

In 2006, this 16-year-old patient underwent a clinical evaluation for episodes of sleep talking, sleepwalking, and dream enactment. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Clonazepam is often effective, particularly for patients with violent dream-enactment behavior. [medlink.com]

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REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by repeated episodes of dream enactment behavior and REM sleep without atonia (RSWA) during [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

In addition, violent movements of the limbs, and complex behaviors that can sometimes appear to involve the enactment of dreams, are associated with RBD. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

However, females had less dream-enacting behaviors, especially in movement related dreams and falling out of bed. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Behavior Disorder

He also developed episodes of highly disruptive and violent nocturnal behavior with dream enactment at age 20 years, which often resulted in physical injuries either to himself [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder presents as dream enactment, often with patients thrashing, punching, and kicking while they are sleeping. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Objective: Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is characterized by dream enactment and loss of muscle atonia during rapid eye movement sleep. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Fatal Familial Insomnia

Both disorders have clinical features of disrupted sleep (loss of sleep spindles and slow-wave sleep and enacted dreams during rapid-eye-movement sleep), autonomic hyperactivation [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Dementia with Lewy Bodies

One amnestic MCI patient had nocturnal dream enactment behavior, consistent with clinically probable REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), and converted to probable DLB with [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Abstract Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia, with abnormal dream-enacting behavior during the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The presence/absence of nine kinds of sleep symptoms, such as dream enactment, were also evaluated in the DLB patients. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Neurodegenerative Disorder

BACKGROUND: Rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterised by dream-enacting behaviours related to unpleasant dreams and loss of muscle [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

A 57-year-old police officer and avid recreational hunter had a 5-year history of progressively severe and injurious dream-enacting behaviors. [journals.lww.com]

Introduction REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by dream-enacting behaviors associated with REM sleep without muscle atonia [1], [2], [3]. [journals.plos.org]

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Restless Legs Syndrome

Body movements ranging from simple motions to highly elaborate enactment of dreams may occur, and typically begin 60-90 minutes following sleep onset. [enotes.tripod.com]

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Bruxism

Dream-enacting behaviors include talking, shouting, punching, kicking, sitting, jumping from bed, arm thrashing, and grabbing during sleep. [jcd.org.in]

SB during REM sleep may be a subclinical manifestation of REM sleep behavior disorder, a parasomnia where vivid dreams are acted out during sleep. [jcd.org.in]

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Pure Autonomic Failure

Other dream enactments and vivid dreams also were more frequent in PAF, IPD and DLB compared with controls. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The mean duration of autonomic symptoms was 11.2 years, and the mean duration of dream enactment was 3.75 years. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Clinical manifestation of sleep disturbances, at least of RBD-like symptoms including nocturnal vocalization and other dream enactments, may occur in PAF, as in IPD and DLB [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Parkinson's Disease Type 3

Bothersome dream-enacting behaviors often respond favorably to clonazepam, a sedative medication. [sleepfoundation.org]

A possible REM sleep behavior disorder was defined by a history of dream enactment behavior on a screening questionnaire. [n.neurology.org]

There may also be a connection between REM sleep behavior disorder (dream–enacting behaviors during sleep) and the subsequent development of Parkinson’s disease. [sleepfoundation.org]

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Overlap Syndrome

Clonazepam is often effective, particularly for patients with violent dream-enactment behavior. [medlink.com]

[…] disorder typically demonstrates NREM sleep instability in combination with a lack of REM sleep atonia (at times with dream-enactment behaviors). • Treatment of parasomnia [medlink.com]

Conversely, subtle dream-enactment behavior is common among adult patients with NREM parasomnias as well as in the general population. • Polysomnography in parasomnia overlap [medlink.com]

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

and dream enactment) Table 2. [healio.com]

[…] the experience, repetitive play or frightening dreams with no recognisable content Reference: (1) American Psychological Association (2017). [gpnotebook.co.uk]

distressing dreams; dissociative reactions (may be expressed as play re-enactment); psychological distress or physiological reactions to reminders of the event. [phoenixaustralia.org]

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Parkinson Disease

Bothersome dream-enacting behaviors often respond favorably to clonazepam, a sedative medication. [sleepfoundation.org]

Smoking and prodromal PD REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by symptoms of dream-enacting behaviors and a loss of muscle atonia throughout a REM [doi.org]

There may also be a connection between REM sleep behavior disorder (dream–enacting behaviors during sleep) and the subsequent development of Parkinson’s disease. [sleepfoundation.org]

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Hereditary Late-Onset Parkinson Disease

Dream-enacting behaviors can be complex, including talking, yelling, punching, kicking, jumping from bed, and grabbing, with great distress for the patient and bed partner [hindawi.com]

RBD is a disruption of the normal REM sleep cycle, in which the paralysis that normally occurs during REM sleep is incomplete or absent, making the patient “act out” their dreams [hindawi.com]

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Unverricht-Lundborg Syndrome

RBD dream enactment ranges in severity from benign hand gestures to violent thrashing, punching, and kicking. [beviriqewydy.ga]

INTRODUCTION — Rapid eye movement ( REM) sleep behavior disorder ( RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by dream- enactment behaviors that emerge during a loss of REM sleep [beviriqewydy.ga]

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Narcolepsy-Cataplexy Syndrome

enactment with frequent dream recall (war scenes or aggression). [hindawi.com]

enactment episodes. [hindawi.com]

Introduction First described in 1986 [1], rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by repeated episodes of dream enactment behavior [hindawi.com]

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Organic Hallucination

Parasomnias that occur during sleep, such as REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD), often involve vigorous and harmful dream-enacting behaviors. [sleepfoundation.org]

REM sleep behaviour disorder Predicted on theoretical grounds before it was described in man, this striking parasomnia is caused by loss of REM sleep atonia; sufferers enact [jnnp.bmj.com]

[…] their dreams, which are often aggressive, placing both themselves and their bed partners at considerable risk. 6 The diagnostic clue is that, once woken, sufferers can generally [jnnp.bmj.com]

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Juvenile Paralysis Agitans of Hunt

Laboratory testing showed enhanced muscle activity in REM sleep consistent with a history of dream enactment behavior (i.e., REM sleep behavior disorder) and daytime sleepiness [neurology.org]

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Sleep Paralysis

In contrast, REM sleep behaviour disorder is characterized by verbalizations and actions consistent with dream enactment (e.g., fight or flight behaviours) that usually awaken [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

They all manifest in a loss of behavioral control during REM sleep and the enactment of dream mentation (see Table 6 ) [ 7 ]. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Our most vividly remembered dreams occur during the depths of rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep. [science.howstuffworks.com]

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Jankovic Rivera Syndrome

Introduction REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a parasomnia characterized by dream-enacting behaviors associated with REM sleep without muscle atonia [1], [2], [3]. [journals.plos.org]

Patients’ Assessment In all instances the diagnosis of IRBD required history of dream-enacting behaviors, video-polysomnography detection of REM sleep with increased muscular [journals.plos.org]

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Adult-Onset Autosomal Recessive Cerebellar Ataxia

For example: Postural dizziness, erectile dysfunction, urinary symptoms, and dream-enactment behavior (suspicious for Rapid eye movement behavior disorder or REMBD): Multiple [practicalneurology.com]

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

[…] reflects dysfunction or degeneration of the ponto-spinal pathway which physiologically blocks motor impulses during REM sleep. 133 As a result, patients with manifest RBD show dream-enacting [dovepress.com]

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Autosomal Recessive Spinocerebellar Ataxia

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Narcolepsy

Disrupted nighttime sleep, including multiple arousals Dream-enacting behaviors, in which patients may act out their dreams Other difficulties may result from one's continuing [columbianeurology.org]

Furthermore, significant body movement is seen within REM sleep episodes correlating with likely dream enactment (REM sleep behaviour disorder). [acnr.co.uk]

[…] abnormally quickly, within 10 minutes of sleep onset, and thereafter has numerous awakenings from REM sleep, explaining the reported experience of numerous disturbing and vivid dreams [acnr.co.uk]

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Dissociative Hysteria

For therapists dissociated self-states are among the everyday fare of clinical work and gain expression in dreams, projective identifications, and enactments. [books.google.com]

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Occipital Lobe Tumor

REM sleep behaviour disorder Predicted on theoretical grounds before it was described in man, this striking parasomnia is caused by loss of REM sleep atonia; sufferers enact [jnnp.bmj.com]

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Hypnotic State

The audience of a stage hypnotist is simply watching the enactment of dream scripts suggested by the hypnotist to the volunteers who have been put into a REM state trance. [why-we-dream.com]

The REM state is our own ‘reality generator’ and the dream script is acted out, or made real, within that reality generator. [why-we-dream.com]

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Autosomal Recessive Spinocerebellar Ataxia 8

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Brain Stem Disorder

Dream-enacting behaviors include talking, yelling, punching, kicking, sitting, jumping out of bed, arm flailing, and grabbing. [emedicinehealth.com]

REM sleep behavior disorder Patients with REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) act out distinctly altered dreams that are vivid, intense, action-packed, and violent. [emedicinehealth.com]

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