Lucidity is the quality of lucid. This adjective, meanwhile, refers to any person who is clear in their way of expressing themselves, their reasoning or their style. Lucidity is generally associated with a person's intellectual, analytical, or reflective ability. People considered lucid generate admiration for their thoughts on a given situation or their ability to see problems differently from others.
Lucidity is generally associated with a person's intellectual capacity, analysis, or reflection. Those who consider themselves lucid generally generate admiration for their thoughts on a certain situation or for their ability to see problems differently from the rest.
Lucidity of mind is the product of a healthy and intellectually active life and the absence of disturbing factors such as chronic diseases. There are many factors that can affect alertness, including:
- Infections, often symptoms such as disorientation and personality changes can be the consequence of infectious diseases of the central nervous system.
- Dehydration, the alteration of body fluids, can affect electrolyte concentrations and the pH or acid level of the blood that affects normal brain function.
- Vascular diseases, heart rhythm disturbances such as arrhythmias, strokes, or impaired cerebral circulation due to diseases such as atherosclerosis, can start with alterations in mental functions in addition to paralysis.
- Conditions that increase intracranial pressure, disorders such as hydrocephalus (increased fluid in the brain) and subdural hematomas (collections of blood between the skull and the brain that occur after trauma or falls) have a slow and progressive course so that they may debut with subtle symptoms such as a slight alteration in consciousness or orientation before giving way to the appearance of more precise neurological symptoms.
- The drugs and medications, often confusional symptoms are due to the effect of pharmacological drugs or several substances, especially if taken in excess or inappropriately, for example, when combining drugs that can interact with each other.
- The suppression of sleep, the alteration in the normal rhythm of sleep can lead to a state of exhaustion that affects the state of consciousness.
- Alcohol abuse, alcohol intake has a depressive effect on the nervous system that affects mental functions, especially if it is combined with factors such as a poor physiological response in elderly and debilitated people or with drugs that increase their depressive effect.
