Not cinematic? Oh! But it could be! Envision this: you wake scared, knowing you did not have a nightmare, there really is a monster. You dive under the duvet, which you believe is monster proof. While under the duvet, you grab your phone so you can call for help. The wan light of your phone screen lights your face with its eerie glow, but is swallowed up in shadow as it recedes into folds of the duvet. From the shadowy regions of the duvet, there comes a slight quivering motion and a slithering noise—is it you, or is it the MONSTER!!!Personally when I wake up from a nightmare, I hide under the duvet, because everyone knows duvets are impervious to monsters. But I suppose that's not very cinematic or televisual.
Isn't a nightmare simply a regular dream that sooner or later leads into a stressful scenario or dangerous incident?
I've had a lot of dreams that ended as nightmares, but I don't recall having any dreams that began as nightmarish.
This is my experience as well.Isn't a nightmare simply a regular dream that sooner or later leads into a stressful scenario or dangerous incident?
I've had a lot of dreams that ended as nightmares, but I don't recall having any dreams that began as nightmarish.
There seem to be two meanings of 'lucid dream' current - one is the dream in which you know you are dreaming and can manipulate events, the other usage (which seems to be more common and irritates me beyond belief because it's not what I mean or understand by 'lucid dreaming') is dreams that are very clear and remembered until morning.I havent had a nightmare since childhood, they stopped when i learned to switch what was happening in my nightmares to something nice, the way i thought about it at the time was like switching the channel on a tv, idk if this would be classed as lucid dreaming, however im quite adept at lucid dreaming now but the memory of my dreams dissipates within minutes of waking.
My wife gets mysterious night terrors which are different from nightmares.
Not at all understood and complicated, when my wife snaps out the terror, she does not remember a thing as nothing at all happened.
Supposedly with nightmares, people can remember what their nightmare was about, not so with night terrors.
FULL STORY: https://www.sciencealert.com/nightm...with-a-single-piano-chord-scientists-discoverNightmares Can Be Silenced With a Single Piano Chord, Scientists Discover
Using non-invasive techniques to manipulate our emotions, it might be possible to curtail the screaming horrors that plague our sleep.
A study conducted on 36 patients diagnosed with a nightmare disorder showed that a combination of two simple therapies reduced the frequency of their bad dreams.
Scientists invited the volunteers to rewrite their most frequent nightmares in a positive light and then playing sound associated with positive experiences as they slept.
"There is a relationship between the types of emotions experienced in dreams and our emotional well-being," says psychiatrist Lampros Perogamvros of the Geneva University Hospitals and the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
"Based on this observation, we had the idea that we could help people by manipulating emotions in their dreams. In this study, we show that we can reduce the number of emotionally very strong and very negative dreams in patients suffering from nightmares."
Many people suffer from nightmares, which aren't always a simple case of a few bad dreams. Nightmares are also associated with poor-quality sleep, which in turn is linked with a whole plethora of other health issues.
Poor sleep can also increase anxiety, which in turn can result in insomnia and nightmares. Recent studies have shown that nightmares and sleep disturbances have seen an uptick during the ongoing global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Given that we don't really understand why, or even how, our brain creates dreams while we sleep, treating chronic nightmares is something of a challenge. ...
I listen to audio books and have them running through the night to keep me asleep. I often have nightmares (and very very random dreams) when I run a book I am not thoroughly familiar with. The other night I was listening to Shadowlands by Matthew Green (excellent, thoroughly recommend) and I had some terrifying dreams that jolted me awake.Recent Swiss research suggests the frequency of nightmares experienced by people plagued with nightmare disorders can be decreased with two simple strategies - one of which is playing a sound the patient has been conditioned to associate with positive memories.
FULL STORY: https://www.sciencealert.com/nightm...with-a-single-piano-chord-scientists-discover
this could be a possible breakthrough in the field of psychology.Recent Swiss research suggests the frequency of nightmares experienced by people plagued with nightmare disorders can be decreased with two simple strategies - one of which is playing a sound the patient has been conditioned to associate with positive memories.
FULL STORY: https://www.sciencealert.com/nightm...with-a-single-piano-chord-scientists-discover
It also adds weight to the view that dreams represent perceptible side-effects of memory processes occurring during sleep.this could be a possible breakthrough in the field of psychology.