I read something years ago that said children often have nightmares, but they grow out of them; adults only have them occasionally.
I was surprised to read this because I've had nightmares all my life. The night I don't have one would be the exception.
But the nightmares have been really bizarre since I came down with a respiratory virus shortly after Christmas. And they've stepped up their vivid strangeness during my recovery period.
I know it's temporary. But - WOW!
And, no, they're too disjointed to use as fiction material.
Researchers still aren't sure why we dream and or the purpose of dreams. One theory that makes the most sense is that our brains are clearing out their "cache" while we sleep, which explains the random impressions of our lives that reassemble in very peculiar ways while we sleep.
Mostly I'm curious if anyone else reading this post regularly experiencing nightmares or has nightmares when sick.
Thoughts?
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I dream frequently, with all the senses- color, texture, smells, taste, everything. Many of them coukd be called nightmares, fragments of past, present, or potential future horrors. Most I can recognise as dreams. The ones that I call nightmares are the ones that lock you in, where terror controls your blood pressure, adrenaline, even nosebleeds. If I recognize it as a dream, I have to literally throw myself out of it...which means I throw myself bodily out of bed, crashing into furniture or laundry baskets in the process. And then spend ten or so hours trying to shake the terror loose because it won't let me forget...
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