RESEARCH: LOOKING INTO NIGHTMARES
Currently in my work, I have been looking into nightmares and what plagues the human brain. With my own experiences and asking others about their nightmares more questions began to build. Most I speak to have nightmares often and it often contains falling and a shadowy figure. Reading articles about common dreams this seemed different, apparently losing your teeth and mechanical failure plagues most of us. Thinking back now though, most people I spoke to were “creative”, so that could have something to do with the frequent of nightmares. Creativity can run quite wild at times.
A question that keeps hitting me and still puzzling me is how do we all have similar dreams. The framework seems to be written and of course there are outlandish occurances that differ from each to the next but falling, entrapment, ghosts, loss of self, failure all of these are common themes many peoples nightmares. It is just interesting to see the strange things us as human experience as a whole and how we filter that into dreams.
