![]() ![]() And the American Society of Sleep Medicine reports that around 85% of us report at least the occasional nightmare, a finding confirmed by multiple studies. A larger share of the population-30% to 55%-has an average of one nightmare a month, according to a Hong Kong-based study published in the journal Sleep. According to a 2017 study of U.K participants published in Social Psychology and Psychiatric Epidemiology, about 5% of the overall population experiences a nightmare at least once a week, which is sufficiently frequent to qualify as a diagnosable disorder. There may even be a way to step in and change the nightmare narrative-stimulating the brain to allow the dreamer to take control of the experience, all the while remaining asleep. ![]() What’s more, they are developing new, often high-tech ways to observe the sleeping brain as nightmares play out and even read some specific elements of the storyline or at least the imagery. ![]() Researchers have long worked to answer those questions and in recent years have succeeded in unraveling at least some of the mysteries. Searching for a good night’s rest? Find it by signing up for TIME’s guide to the scientific secrets of sleep. But there are open questions: why you have one on one night and not another why some people suffer from them more than others what the specific content of the bad dreams signifies. If the sleeping brain is forever screening the sometimes absurdist movies that are our dreams, it’s no surprise that now and then it would choose a horror film. It would be nicer for all of us if nightmares didn’t exist in the first place, but it’s hardly surprising that they do. “I think those nightmares point to that importance,” Schredl says. From the time we emerged as a species we have depended on our acceptance within a group for our very survival, and violating the rules of that group could mean banishment. “Humans are social beings,” says professor Michael Schredl, a sleep researcher at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany, and nightmares may be sign that a bit of the social code that keeps us in line during the day and is fundamental enough to who we are that it apparently operates even in our sleep. Nightmares may also involve being the person who causes harm to other people. It involved danger-in the case of nightmares, it’s most commonly some kind of physical aggression, a serious accident, a disease, or, yes, being chased. It was recalled upon awakening-and may even have been the reason for the awakening. Silly or not, childish or not, The Running Legs checked several boxes that would generally qualify it as a nightmare. ![]()
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