Why do people have nightmares?
Nightmares are the bad dreams that disturb us and awake us from the sleep. Nightmares can vary from the person to person but the most common one is that a person feels chased by the other. Different emotions develop during the nightmares some feel sad other can feel anger or depressed but generally people feel anxiety and fear.
There are many reasons why people have nightmares. It can be due to traumatic events in life for e.g. death of a close friend or relative, a severe accident or other shocking event. It also happens because of certain medications or illness and also the withdrawal of some medicines. Nightmares can happen because of stress, tension. Other causes of nightmares are sleep disorders, excessive consumption of alcohol. In children nightmares are more common than the adults. It occurs in the age of three or four and seven or eight. No need to worry for the nightmares in the children because it is just a phase of their growth and in this way they are learning to deal with their fears and problems. They dream mostly about the animals. There are some people who experience nightmares totally unrelated to their lives which show that these people have a good creative mind.
Nightmares are different from night terrors. Night terrors occur in the NREM stage of sleep. It Results in screaming and thrashing about in bed while nightmares occur in REM stage of sleep. It results in the fear and anxiety but not in screaming and other symptoms as in night terrors. Moreover nightmares are rarely remembered. Nightmare acts as a “psyche relief†as all the fear and feelings from our subconscious mind is expelled out in the form of nightmares.
Depending on the cause of nightmare we can prevent it like if it is due to some medication then consultation is required with the doctor. No treatment is required in the case of children. What you can do is to talk with them about their bad dreams and make them sure that it was only a dream nothing like that will happen in the reality. This will surely help them.
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i think this is good information because i have lots of bad nightmares all the time so i know how it feels. but great information!!!! thanks.
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Hmmm i dnt think im going to have nightmares
i am 14 years old an i have bad dreams every night about me dieing an more things i fall out of bed i run out of my house one night my dad seriously hade to chace me down the street because i was dreaming…i always dream about one thing everynight its the same dream but when i woke up from the dream i hade befor i go to sleep again an it goes back to the same dream just a differnt place…
i am a teenager or basically almost there whatever but i have nightmares and other awkward dreams i cant explain and i want to understand but i dont wanna think or dream about nightmares or interesting dreams or thoughts
Im an 11 year old girl and i am always having nightmares, i dont know why and it all scares me, i used to have them and then they stopped because my mom talked to me and stopped it., but scince i moved to st edmunds, its just got worse, this information hasnt quite helped me because i still have them, i am a child and i think its either down to stress, or the area i live in. its a bad area you see, every bang you hear is most likely a gun shot. well thats what it has became in my head. every corner i turn there is someone watching me in my head. but it isnt. i called off seeing my friend becaause i had a nightmare about me getting killed in her house, it just doesnt make sense, soo what can i do any advice, i cant cope with this a lot.
Im 19 years old, i see that creative people are more prone to have nightmares about things that have nothing to do with their lives, you see im an actor, and writer of music and scripts. Ive had nightmares for the past month or so, maybe longer i cant remember. I wake up always feeling a huge sickness to my stomach, its never pleasant. I either wake up feeling like i have killed someone or they have killed me. I looked in to past life regression, and i wonder could i possibly be dreaming dreams of a past life? someone who im not but the reincarnation of that person. Im going to be doing a past life regression hypnosis here soon, never been under hypnosis but i want to see if it helps. and they say this could help or open doors to something i dont want to toil with….
i’m kenxley jeryax…16 years old boy
i had a nightmare last night..
my dream is all about a vampire who stares at me.. and when he turned side view
i was terrified ..
i want to move but i can’t move
,i want to shout but i can’t shout.
i am forcing myself to do it..
until i was awaken by myself..
i found out that my mouth was opened wider..
i have been haveing alot of night mares but they have stopped my mom said if i tell her my bad dreams that i will not have that dream any more and it works so maybe you should try it
I’m 16 years old girl from North Carolina I have just moved to a new location. Every night I go to sleep and have the same dream of my ex bf killing me I can feel everything and when i wake up my nose bleeds like it actual happened I am 2 hours away from him now but when I’m asleep I feel like he’s with me every secound of the night intil I wake up crying! Is this normal!!
All bad dreams are caused by heart palpitation.The most common symptoms resulting from heart palpitation are tachycardia and bradycardia so the most common bad dreams has dreamed of falling and being attacked
Wow I didn’t know so much about nightmares and now I do! Thanks to everyone who wrote it! (George!)
hello,
i am a 16 year old girl. i see a counsler. i have nightmares but more night terrors alot. one night i was with my boyfriend and i by accident fell asleep and i punched him in the face, because of my nightmare… whenever i go to see a friend i never sleep over because i always have nightmares at their house. i need help. i need to understand.
i am 7 yrs.old and my baddream was that vampires took over earth and blended in with their surroundings. when i saw one it chased me until it flew over my head.then it ran up andit bit my neck.then a horde of vampires killed me.to my older brother ceirek’s voice. he asked “why did you jerk?” i said i had an epicly horroble night mare.
hi. i am 11years old and my bad dream was i was in a resturant like always nobody beileves me is because i was possesed ,cut a snake in both of my wrists and in a bath room stall and i walked behind him with a knife my hand and stabbed him 3x.i went out and paid the bill i saw a police officer i ran to him and said i didn’t do it. then as i ran out the door he walked in the bath room and he ran out of the bath room and said “nobody goes any where we need detectives to ceck your i.ds when i woke up and said in that dream i must of been an adult becuasei paid for the bill.
i am a 19 year old female and when i was younger i used to have many happy (positive) dreams, and ocasionally one or two night mares (rarely), then in my early adolescence i completely stopped having dreams or nightmares altogether.. i wonder why? and now that i am 19 i began to get nightmares only, and i don’t have any positive dreams anymore, just have lots of night mares almost every single night.. does any one know why this could be?