Do You Still Have Nightmares?

[BlinkingDuck]

@Tamerlane

The frequency usually declines in adulthood. To some extent it seems to coincide with both stress and fearfulness in general.

I’ll say that they are fairly rare for me now ( but I still remember a couple from when I was young ) and I don’t think I have been startled awake since I was in my teens. Generally when I get them these days they are more often what I’d call disturbing - less actively frightening than vaguely menacing. At times I seem to be able to recognize them as dreams and subtly steer them to less disturbing areas - I presume this occurs when I’m on the threshhold of consciousness.

This is my experience. In fact, it seems many of my dreams are ‘disturbing’ but usually not overly so. A few months ago I thought about this and was a bit depressed wondering what ever happened to my good, happy dreams.

The closest to a ‘nightmare’ (and not really that close) are the very annoying ‘my teeth are falling out’ dreams. I hate HATE HATE those!

On the good side, I haven’t had a late for a test/forgot to drop a class and need to take the final type dream in a few years…it just took 20 or so years after Grad school for those to stop!