Do you have nightmares?

I don't have nightmares very frequently but when I do I remember them because I feel like I am going to die and I wake covered in sweat. It could be due to unresolved issues in my personal life of one sort or other that needs to be dealt with. :unsure:
 

Na! I am glad to report that I sleep "like a baby." However, I must say that I do not watch those stupid horror and violent films that Hollywood loves to "shove down our throats." I try to read books that educate me; mostly non fiction and biography. I also try to keep away from the constant harrasement from our media. Really don't care a hoot about what those so called celebrities are doing!

Most nightmare are caused by stress. Brother, let me tell you stress in our society is all over the place and it is increasing in leaps and bounds.
 
Way back when, I had the normal dreams of not doing my homework, and there's a test. I rarely remember my dreams. And if I do, by the time I get out of bed, they're forgotten.
 

Oh, yeah. The other night, I had the mother of all stress dreams that had the elements of every stress dream I’ve ever had since I was a young adult. First, I was back in the classroom, the stress dream that I had when I retired. I didn’t know where the classroom was. (That was from college.) I was late fir work. I forgot where the bus stop was. I couldn’t find my car. I forgot my lunch and had to eat in the cafeteria. I needed to shower and couldn’t find a bathroom. And when I did find it, there was someone who wouldn’t give me privacy. Oh dear lord, it was awful. AWFUL. We are in the midst of a major remodeling project, and I’m sure that was the catalyst.
 
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Alligatorob said:
I call those anxiety dreams, and I do sometimes have those. Dream I am lost somewhere and can't figure out how to get home is the most common. Not really a nightmare though.
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That is because during dreaming, one's brain does not easily return to where it experienced its internal model of the world it passed through even minutes before. So everything morphs a bit continually. In one moment and scene one is dealing with one element but minutes later when the brain focuses on that same general area, it only experiences a vague memory trace. Not only do I not find my car after coming out of say a store, but the parking lot changes. Look back at the store I just came out of and like magic its no longer Walmart but Target as one's brain filled in the blanks from generic "store".
 
Not very often and fewer in recent years. I don't enjoy them , but after I wake up, I find them interesting in a "where did that come from?" kind of way.
 

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