Gi bangungot ko ganina.. twice!!
Filipinos attribute bangungot to going to bed right after a very full meal. The medical researchers have their own crop of theories. The earliest investigations, based on autopsies of Filipino victims, suggested pancreatitis as the cause of death, with speculation that our high salt diet of bagoong and patis. In the 1980s, doctors at the University of the East proposed the victims had coongenital problems in their heart's anatomical structure. The deaths among Thai workers in Singapore led researchers to zero in once again on dietary factors, with suggestions that the problem was associated with nutritional deficiencies - some suggested thiamine, others potassium
Our fear of bangungot boils down to our dreading our loss of control, of being trapped within the nightmare. Our bangungot beliefs include a remedy, which is for the victim to try to move a finger, a toe or any part of the body, or to have someone else wake you up. The point is to regain control and to slip out of the nightmare.
Bangungot is part of an indigenous psychology, based on a knowledge that loss of control over our bodies and our lives can be hazardous. Bangungot beliefs also reflect social norms - one shouldn't be a glutton, and shouldn't dash off to bed right after a full meal. Politicians should take heed - when Filipinos compare the present dispensation to a never-ending bangungot, as they are beginning to do so now, it suggests malaise and discontent on a grand scale. I would extend this metaphorical use of this deadly ightmare syndrome: when our leaders go to bed on too full a meal, the nation suffers, grievously, from collective bangungot.
-by M. L. Tan
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