This was the article I read in the middle of my WBTB. Note the one part:

For example, a child repeatedly woke up screaming about a bear in the closet. The father's response was to rush into the room offering to shoot the bear. But so far as the child was concerned, this did nothing to prevent the bear from returning the next night and the night after that. The father, Dr. Schroeder said, would have had far more success turning on a light and showing the child that there was no bear in the closet.
I'm just guessing, but that's probably why a bear attacked me in the following dream.