Using Dreams to Regulate Sub-health
With the increasing life pressures today, insomnia has become a manifestation of sub-health. Dreaming excessively can also lead to daytime drowsiness and low work efficiency. To achieve good sleep, experts say that regulating the body through dreams can also improve sleep quality. Let's see how this works.
Dream Type 1: Dreams about Trivial Matters
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the spleen is associated with thought. People who have these kinds of dreams may have poor digestive function on one hand, and poor absorption function of the spleen on the other. This indicates that these individuals are not in deep sleep, and their consciousness is still active.
Suggestion: To regulate the spleen and stomach, one should improve their digestive and absorption functions by eating more foods that strengthen the spleen.
Dream Type 2: Bizarre Dreams
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, it is believed that when a person sleeps, the liver stores blood and the blood houses the soul, allowing the soul to rest well. For these individuals, however, they cannot contain the blood, leading to strange dreams about things that even they find inexplicable.
Suggestion: To regulate the liver, the general approach is to nourish the liver blood.
Dream Type 3: Nightmares
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, this is considered a kidney issue. The kidney governs fear in the human body. If a person's kidney qi or essence is damaged, they are prone to having frightening dreams. People who have these dreams often have a history of being frightened or have experienced some changes or upheavals within their family or with relatives.
Suggestion: To regulate the kidneys, one can eat Poria cakes, which can help alleviate this type of excessive dreaming.