The Psychology Behind Nightmares and Why Do We Have Nightmares?

we all have had dreams of being chased by ghosts or even being murdered in the lonely dark Street. Sometimes we all have lost our loved ones in dreams and these dreams generally have so much conviction in them that for a second. We believe they are true these nightmares leave us sweating and we wake up with a jerk but have you ever wondered? Why do we get these horrific and spooky?


Nightmares before we dig into finding out about nightmares say. let us take a look at why we dream in the first place. it is said that each one of us spent at least 2 hours every night dreaming. Our sleep just like in any government Department the junior assistant of our brain Mr pwns starts sending the report of our day’s activities to his manager Mr cortex in the form of signals. However, due to poor network issues these signals are hard to interpret thus trying to find meaning in these signals. Mr cortex starts forming stories like Motion Picture films and we see them as dreams now that we have looked into the logic behind dreaming let us come back to our question why do we see nightmares? the signals that are sent by Mr pawns during our sleep are largely influenced by our days events. this is the reason why most of our dreams are related to what we have been thinking. All day long nightmares are said to be reactions to stress anxiety and tension during the day. However having nightmare is not completely bad many psychologists believe that having nightmares helps the person mentally prepare for tough times but frequent occurrence of nightmares. Becomes a disorder when it impairs everyday life and works such a disorder is called repeated. Nightmare disorder or simply nightmare disorder nightmare disorder occurs only when a person sees the same nightmare again and again so next time you see a night nightmare there’s no need for you to worry unless the same nightmare becomes an every night routine.