Thread: whats a nightmare ?

Sometimes our subconsious gets angry with us us and says "Guess what...? I think you deserve a bad dream tonight."

The subconscious just does it in the process of interpreting things from the day. It may need to work through something using a scary event as the catalyst of the interpretation. I don't really think it can get angry at you, unless you come up with the actions it should do and you think it's angry at you. Because it'll be glad to follow your orders, whether you meant them as an order or not. That's my guess at least.

In the psychological point of view nightmares are unresolved conflicts from the day. For instance, if your really stressed about something and your trying to ignore it, your subconscious mind will create a scary event in order to get your attention back onto it and resolve it. Basically the monsters or things chasing you are unresolved and ignored parts of us that need our attention. Thats why in a dream, if you actually stand up and confront the evil things in the nightmare, you'll find that they are very friendly once you stop running.

Another thing is when your just plane scared of something, for instance you saw a bad movie, your mind will replay it, so that you confront that fear and get over it. All fears wish to be ended, they'll keep haunting you until you resolve them.

-Daniel