What the Doctor Needs to Know in Order to Make a Successful Prescription

Section 34 — Sleep and Dreams

James Tyler Kent · What the Doctor Needs to Know in Order to Make a Successful Prescription · 30 passages

State when and under what circumstances you are abnormally drowsy or sleepy.

State when and under what circumstances you have yawning.

Is the yawning painful or spasmodic ?

State all troubles of symptoms occurring before, during or after sleep, or when just falling to sleep ?

State all troubles that come on just as you waken and how you awaken ; what awakens you during the night ?

Are you a sound, deep or a light sleeper ?

What causes the sleeplessness ?

When and under what circumstances are you sleepless ?

What seems to keep you awake when first going to bed, or when awaking during the night ?

Do you awaken often during the night ?

Is the sleep restful and refreshing ?

How do you feel when first awaking and on first arising in the morning ?

Do you take a nap or sleep during the day ?

Do you feel well after a sleep during the day ?

Are you easy or hard to awaken ?

Do you sleep quietly or toss and roll about during sleep ?

Do you like to sleep with the head high or low ?

Do you have the nightmare ?

Do you snore. loudly ?

Do you moan, scream or make other noises during sleep ?

Have you sweat during sleep ?

Have you grating or grinding of the teeth during sleep ?

Do you dream much ?

Do you remember your dreams ?

Do the dreams trouble you after waking ?

In what part of the night do you dream ?

Do you dream the same dream over the same night, or later ?

Are the dreams confused, pleasant, horrible, frightful, disgusting, disagreeable, vexatious, vivid ?

Do you dream of accidents, animals, cats, dogs, blood, business, church, death or corpses, dancing, danger, drinking, drowning, eating, falling, fire, flying, fruit, ghosts, horses, houses, being hungry, lightning, misfortunes, money, murder, of people, praying, being pursued, of quarrelling, riding, robberies, sexual pleasure, shooting, sickness, snakes, snow, talking, being thirsty, travelling, trees, urinating, vomiting, of water, weeping ?

Do you have day dreaming ?