Nightmares. What are they good for?

hey there mental..hows it goin? there are sooo many things our dreams and nightmares mean..soemtimes they are warnings..which with me i get alot..or sometimes u dream whats happeneing in ur life good and bad in our brains own way..and sometimes our dream and nightmares mean...not a dang thing!! lol..i have researched dreams for so long..good n bad..night terrors is what my sis gets..there reallllly baddd!soo if u want lemme know some of ur dreams and remeber htings that seemed really weird..how u felt in the dream..running..chasing..being hurt..and maybe i can help ya with what i know and have leanred though some people will disagree..warning ya now lol! but ill try..byeee! April

I have had nightmares where I have woke up crying and so upset I didn't even know where I was and scared to death,Why I have no ideal but you have started a good discussion here and I will check back because I would like to know why also.You have a wonderful night without nightmares.

I had one recurring nightmare that up to a few months ago I could not understand. I was in the trenches during the first world war. I was then going 'over the top' before going into a shell crater. I then called back to the trench and the incident ocurred again. This normally happened in the rem sleep before waking up. The nightmare does not occur so frequently now and I think it was due to some research on my family tree that has caused it. I found out through the 'Commonwealth War Graves commission' here in the UK that a Great Uncle was one of those who was killed at Passchendaele. It may be I was experiencing how he died all those years ago. I cannot find out anymore as both sides of family have cut me off since my father died.

The other thing I would like to mention happened in my early years. This at the time seemed like a nightmare. I had 'out of body' experiences. I was in bed and felt myself leave my body and float towards the ceiling. I then looked down at myself still sleeping.

I used to have a lot of nightmares wen I was young and at one time it came to a point where I did not want to sleep anymore. This went on for a long time until I was 24 when I learned to meditate. In my very last nightmare, I was chased by a banshee where I would attempt to flee and the road turned to molasses and I could not go very fast. In my dreams one of my abilities was to fly and I tried doing it this time to no avail. Finally I thought of using my mantra as weapon so I turned to her instead of running away and I held her by the arms and screamed my mantra at her. She squirmed and tried to get away whereupon I screamed my mantra even louder. I eventually let her go and she flew away into the darkness where she came from and never bothered me again.

Nightmares happen because of our unhappiness.
Most of us are miserable in life. We also cannot tolerate when someone is happy. We do our best to destroy that happiness, we torment that person. But by doing so, our own happiness is reduced.
Thus our accumulated unhappiness results in nightmares.

Dreams and nightmares are things that we are too scared or too dense to confront all by ourselves when we are conscious. It is all part of ourselves and which are stored in our subconscious. I call the subconscious the mental representation of our dna sequence which is the physical representations of our souls. Everything therefore has an explanation but these might be buried so deep inside our psyches as to be inaccessible until they happen. Take for instance something like finding a winning lottery ticket. We call it luck, I call it something which is long in coming. When you stub your toe and feel the pain we call it bad luck, I call it payback for some hurt done to someone else. Cheers!!

I think I have more just plain strange dreams than actaul nightmares, but I still can't see the point in dreaming at all anyway. I've heard both scientific and spiritual reasons for dreaming and nightmares, but none of those reasons have seames plausible to me.I do have a fair share of good dreams too though. I've even had lame dreams where I was at work, and then woke up to the alarm clock, and had to go to work. Now THAT is a nightmare.

I think they are our subconscious sorting through the events of that are playing in our minds. I don't think there is a reason for them, but I do know under times of stress I have them a lot.

Sometimes I think that nightmares are
warnings of things to come.
On the other hand, they could simply
be the way that the brain "practices"
and it's just trying out various
scenarios to see how it would cope.

Surely we can't imagine that we'd ever
be stalked by a ten foot tall lizard.
But in our childhood days such irrational
fears were most likely not uncommon.

The asleep brain still deals in those
kinds of fantasy scenarios and plays
them out to see if survival would be
possible.

Perhaps that is what nightmares are.

Simply, practice sessions for life!

It is said near the time you retire to sleep, you have a thought and its this thought that is your dream.

Again it is said if you wish to resolve an issue, then think about it before going to bed, and its likely you will dream about it and it is possible to see the matter in a different way.

That reminds me in whats said, "GO AND SLEEP ON IT AND GIVE ME AN ANSWER TOMORROW."

So there may be sence in it after all.

(I know a month old,haha).

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