Nobody likes to have nightmares, because they awaken all fears and anguish precisely at the time we dedicate completely to rest. But the truth is that bad dreams are not as negative as they seem and we do not mean that they have positive meanings in their interpretation. Nightmares have a fairly beneficial objective, do you want to know what it is? We discover this and other curiosities about nightmares in our Dream Dictionary. Let’s go there!
Moments of tension, terror, anguish, cries, screams, robberies, shots, murders, blood … What can happen in a nightmare? The worst thing you can imagine and many more things that you don’t even dare to think. But nightmares hide a gift, believe us.
1 Many experts claim that nightmares are an adaptive mechanism to release stress and anxiety. It is a way of expressing everything that disturbs us, of letting him out.
2 Nightmares also have their usefulness, they do not occur to torture you. It is true that they are related to your fears, but they are precisely the ones that help you face your fears and get rid of them when you wake up.
3 Thanks to a nightmare you can discover what problem is resisting, that concern that is disturbing you and you do not dare to recognize. The nightmare forces you in some way to identify what is happening to you.
4 Babies do not have nightmares, bad dreams begin at 3 years and become more frequent from 6 years. Until reaching adolescence, which is the age group that has to suffer the most nightmares.
5 Food can influence your dreams. The copious and difficult dinner dinners will lead you to spend an indigestible night with horrible nightmares, at least the experts of the sleep.
6 The ambient noise favors the appearance of nightmares. The streets of the street, the shouts of the neighbors, the television on … we do not notice it to avoid nightmares, but so that you have a better sleep quality.
Don’t you think there are dreams and nightmares that are repeated in many people? Almost everyone has ever dreamed of an accident, some death or some fight. Do you know what are the most frequent nightmares?
+ Nightmares with death
They are very varied and cover from the death itself to the scenes in cemeteries or wakes. Tombs, skulls, meetings in the hereafter, talks with deceased relatives or even with ghosts. But the nightmare that is most terrious is undoubtedly that in which a loved one dies. The fear of being a premonitory vision or dream does not disappear even if the interpretation of dreams affirms that dreams with death do not have a negative meaning.
+ Nightmares with natural disasters
You become aware of your helplessness when you have nightmares with natural disasters. Cities razed by a tsunami, hurricanes that destroy everything in its path, collapse houses, floods or even fires are scenes product of anxiety that causes you to know that you have lost control of the situation. When you wake up you just have to apply it to your daily life.
+ Paralyzing nightmares
It is common to dream that you cannot move, that you cannot talk, that you want to shout and you cannot, that you want to run but your legs do not answer you … All these nightmares respond to periods in which you can no longer. You want to move on but you can’t because emotional wear is so high that it has already become physical wear. Be careful because depression signals can be implicit in this type of dreams.
+ Nightmares with falls
You fall into a vacuum, you fall out of a roof, you twist an ankle a full street, you fall to a well and what do you feel? Maybe the same as when you dream that someone chases you with the intention of hurting you. You feel in danger, sometimes it is a more palpable danger and other times of that vital fear or anguish that produces the uncertainty in which you live.
+ Nightmares with being late
There is another type of frequent nightmares that question your abilities, your worth and your sense of responsibility, so a self -esteem problem is intuited. It is when you dream that you are late for a job interview, to an exam or an important event. What insecurity! And even more when you dream that you are going naked down the street, has it ever happened to you?
But do not be afraid of your nightmares because, as we say, you can learn many things with them and, above all, you can detect the problem in time. What do you sleep well and sweet nightmares!
You can read more articles similar to curiosities about nightmares that your subconscious wants you to know, in the category of meaning of dreams in Diario Female.