Extraordinary monsters, people who break your heart, or depressing places you see for the first time in your life… Each of them appears regularly in our nightmares.

So why Do we keep seeing nightmares over and over again?

According to a dream researcher at Harvard Medical School, the theme of the most common nightmares is that something bad is chasing you.

The person who is chasing you is someone you don’t like, It could be any animal or a monster. Additionally, in 2000, a survey was conducted among Canadian university students and the results were quite striking.

Among the students’ nightmares; to vividly perceive a presence, to fall from something, to be late for an exam or public transport, to be attacked and to be frozen with fear scenarios are seen.

Recurring nightmares are also more common in children than in adults.

The reason for this is that children are more sensitive than adults. They express their fears in the world they live in,It is more likely to become a focal point. For this reason, the fears experienced during the day spread to nightmares at night.

Recurring nightmare episodes, both mundane and fantastic, can occur or increase during particularly stressful times, such as exams or divorces. At the same time, the reason for these nightmares is It may also be associated with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Again this situation; such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, chronic anxiety, sleep apnea and temporal lobe epilepsy It is more common in people with other medical conditions.

In summary, recurring nightmares are about negative situations that occur in our daily lives It comes from our internalization of things that upset us. Fears we cannot overcome or events we cannot overcome appear as nightmares.

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