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A new study led by University of Cambridge public health researcher Melanie Sloan has found that bad dreams are one of the most common and early signs of a lupus flare-up.– technically known as systemic lupus erythematosus – roughly a third of patients reported disrupted dreams in the year before other disease symptoms emerged.
As well as the online survey, researchers conducted personal interviews with 69 people living with systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease, including lupus.their bad dreams during a lupus flare were so"horrific" that they saw"skin coming off people"."I think the more stress my body is under then the more vivid and bad the dreaming would be," they
Seeing as these experiences can be so emotionally charged, the researchers gently introduced hallucinations to the conversation by asking about 'daymares' – and some patients knew immediately what they were referring to.."It's like, not necessarily scary; it's just like you've had a dream and yet you're sitting awake in the garden… it's like feeling really disorientated.
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