Recent news on studies shows that patients with sleep apnea report fewer cases of nightmares during their sleep. This may be the only silver lining to an otherwise tiresome and painful condition.
Though patients with sleep apnea continue to dream, they report fewer cases of nightmares. This finding will now allow the doctors to get a better insight into the condition and also to ask the right questions to the patients. The more severe the condition of the apnea is, the lesser nightmare the patient had.
However, patients must remember that apnea is a serious condition and may even become fatal. So, proper treatment of the condition is very important – even if you have fewer nightmares now.