Dreams may be linked to heart attacks

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Dreams may be linked to heart attacks

September 2, 2003

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/01/1062403455363.html

 

Vivid dreams and nightmares may be linked to an increased incidence of heart

attacks in the early morning, according to a Freudian analysis of heart

disease presented at a conference in the hometown of the father of

psychoanalysis.

 

Thomas Luscher told the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology

in Vienna that, although heart attacks occurred throughout the day, their

incidence increased after midnight and peaked between 3am and 5am.

 

" What's interesting is that this is when dreams become more frequent and

vivid, " said Dr Luscher, a cardiologist at the Zurich University Hospital.

 

The link may be the stress or extreme emotion provoked by dreams, the

conference heard.

 

Sigmund Freud was born in a small town in what is now the Czech Republic,

but spent most of his life in Vienna.