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There was a claim in the introduction, un-cited, that "psychological nomenclature" differentiates nightmares and "bad dreams" by virtue of whether the dream may, in the right conditions, wake the dreamer. I am not aware of such nomenclature, albeit, I am not a psychologist. Jondvdsn1 ( talk) 12:30, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
From the 1881 Household Cyclopedia. it bad Great attention is to be paid to regularity and choice of diet. Intemperance of every kind is hurtful, but nothing is more productive of this disease than drinking bad wine.Of eatables those which are most prejudicial are all fat and greasy meats and pastry.These are needed to be avoided, or eaten with caution. The same may be said of salt meats, for which dyspeptic patients have frequently a remarkable predilection, but which are not on that account the less unsuitable.
Moderate exercise contributes in a superior degree to promote the digestion of food and prevent flatulence; those, however, who are necessarily confined to a sedentary occupation, should particularly avoid applying themselves to study or bodily labor immediately after eating. If a strong propensity to sleep should occur after dinner, it will be certainly bettor to indulge it a little, as the process of digestion frequently goes on much better during sleep than when awake.
Going to bed before the usual hour is a frequent cause of night-mare, as it either occasions the patient to sleep too long or to lie long awake in the night. Passing a whole night or part of a night without rest likewise gives birth to the disease, as it occasions the patient, on the succeeding night, to sleep too soundly. Indulging in sleep too late in the morning, is an almost certain method to bring on the paroxysm, and the more frequently it returns, the greater strength it acquires; the propensity to sleep at this time is almost irresistible. Those who are habitually subject to attacks of the night-mare ought never to sleep alone, but should have some person near them, so as to be immediately awakened by their groans and struggles, and the person to whom this office may be entrusted should be instructed to rouse the patient as early as possible, that the paroxysm may not have time to gain strength.
It's kind of misleading that there are pictures of people experiencing sleep paralysis when the topic is in fact nightmares. Though the two are similar, they're quite different.
With all due respect, I have experienced nightmares, night terrors, sleep paralysis, lucid dreams, regular dreams, and a large combination of the above. I have researched dreaming, lucid dreaming, nightmares and insomnia for my psych university studies (as well as for personal interest), read countless articles pertaining to dreams and dream related material, and can tell you that sleep paralysis and nightmares are uncategorically different and that empirical psychological studies recognise them as such. The terms 'sleep paralysis' and 'nightmare' may indeed have had the same meaning at some point in the distant past, but a lot of advances have been made in the area of dream research over the past 15 years. I really can't stress how incredibly inaccurate it is to use the terms 'sleep paralysis' and 'nightmare' interchangably. In addition, I'm fully confident that our understanding and definition for these two terms have altered somewhat since their initial conception in, what... the 1700's? -- Rathilien 02:54, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Why are their two different versions of the same painting? raptor 13:22, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
I have removed the following sections, because they are copyvios taken from this site. If someone wants to rephrase them to aviod the ©-violation – be my guest. I also added a link to the site, as it was very informative. -- Salleman 16:22, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
The "mare" in "nightmare" is not a female horse, but a mara, an Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse term for a female spirit that sat on sleepers' chests, causing them to have bad dreams.
A nightmare is called a mareridt in Danish, a cauchemar in French, a pesadilla in Spanish, and an Alpdruck or Alptraum in German. The Alp is a demonic being which presses upon sleeping people so that they cannot utter a sound. These attacks are called Alpdrücke (nightmares). In Italian, the word incubo recalls the Incubus, a demon supposed to lie upon sleepers, especially women, and rape them.
A folk remedy has it that by stopping up the keyhole, placing one's shoes with the toes facing the door, and then getting into bed backwards one can protect oneself against nightmares or "Mortriden." [mare rides]. Or one can put something made from steel, for example an old pair of scissors, in one's bed straw. A third remedy suggests that a person suffering from nightmares should urinate into a clean, new bottle, hang the bottle in the sun for three days, carry it—without saying a word—to a running stream, and then throw it over one's head into the stream.
I don't want to keep clashing with [User:Jclerman|Jclerman]] here, but categorizint nightmares into Category:Neuroscience is just too broad. In essence, just about any human event can be categorized into "neuroscience". I recategorized this into the more specific Category:Sleep disorders. Semiconscious ( talk · home) 09:34, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I must agree with Semiconcious here. There is a fair amount of neuroscientific research into dreaming and nightmares, but if there is a more specific category available it should go there. I don't disagree with making the category Sleep disorders a subcategory of Category:Neuroscience. JFW | T@lk 16:28, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
There's not enough scientific information here about nightmares.
—The preceding
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129.2.106.74 (
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22:32, 1 March 2007 (UTC).
I agree also. In a roundabout way, it discusses something quite different and dated. The whole article is unfocused (at this point-29 Dec 07). Plus the little linguistic foray in one paragraph which has no place here. I've seen similar things like that be put into other articles and then removed almost unanimously very quickly. Wikipedia is not a translator....
I'm removing this paragraph but leaving it here for later reference if needed. I think this whole article should be scrapped too.... Chris b shanks ( talk) 18:26, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
In the instant that i am woken byhaha a nightmare, my first sensation besides panic, is of excessive heat. This has become such a noticable occurance that I can only conclude that the purpose of the nightmare was to wake me up to prevent damage to my body or brain. The cause of the heat was not illness but external factors, i.e. too many blankets, the heating left on, the cat sleeping on me! Thus after being woken and feeling hot, I removed the cause of the heat and returned to peaceful sleep. Are nightmares warnings that our brains are overheating? Is it a biological safety device? The thought intrigues me. Could we be causing the nightmares of our children and babies by trying too hard to keep them warm and tucked in at night? Any thoughts? 144.134.135.148 02:02, 11 March 2006 (UTC) Anne.
---The reason you're waking up is not because of the nightmare but because your body is uncomfortable. You just happen to remember the dream *because* you woke up, not the other way around. If you slept through the nightmare, you would have woken up at your normal time and not remembered the dream. You only remember the dream because you woke up and you woke up for whatever reason, not because of the dream. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.232.12.202 ( talk) 19:59, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
"(although not proven, many people believe that dying within a dream is an impossible feat, as there have never been any cases of a person reporting the feelings of the wound or disease that killed them in their dreams)"
I'm not sure what exactly counts as dying in a dream, but I once had a dream in which somebody shot me in my head (good thing it's not a premonition, yet), followed by a brief yet intense pain in my head, after which I began to faint, and my senses weakened rapidly, as if fleeing my body. I don't remember anything afterwards, which pretty much makes me good as dead. Does anybody else have a similar experience?
Maybe because we don't know what dying is like so our subconcious can't replicate it?
The reason you saw that you were shot in your sleep is that when you get hurt in your sleep the body tries to make a quick explanation for it. When you stub your toe you dont feel this because you know what happened, but since you are asleep the body will make up a story (if you have a strong imagination)such as being shot. You probably were just dehydrated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.151.122.227 ( talk) 01:53, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
The paragraph under the "Historic Use of term" section that lists the translation of nightmare in 17 different languages is poorly written as just listing information in a paragraph is of bad form. Also the information to me is arbitrary. In an article that is talking about nightmares, there doesn't need to be translations of the word into multiple languages. So either this info should go, or it needs to be placed in a small table.
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Hi I would just like to know if anyone knows of, or has experienced a ghost pinning them down and not being able to move? Because this morning I woke up at about 5am but I didn't bother checking the time because for some reason lately I've been waking up at that exact time alot. So I just rolled over and tried to go to sleep, which was weird because it felt like I got to sleep straight away. Then when I think I was changing positions, all of a sudden I couldn't move, and I was in a uncomfortable position but I was just stuck. I could only move my eyes and maybe head slightly, and as I was all paralysed I could see a weird round light skim across the roof of my bedroom. It was like a bright blueish-white colour and from my position looked about the size of a tennis ball. So in this time of me trying to move I could see it skimming to directly accross my head, but as soon as I breathed out a help, I felt a release and I could move again and I was awake. This was really weird for me and scary as I could remember every vivid detail and it did not even felt like I had gone to sleep, and when I woke I figured out that this would have happenned in no less than 10 minutes of me waking the 1st time. Also the way I tried crying out for help felt like I was being choked, which I could tell from the sound of my own voice. And I also remember conciously thinking at the time as soon as I saw the light of aliens or ghosts, which made it feel like I was awake. I'm still not sure wether I was awake or asleep during this experience. I don't have alot of nightmares, I can't even remember the last time I did and I didn't watch any scary movies the night before. Can anyone help? TeePee-20.7 08:49, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I don't see a lot of information on the subject of vitamins related to sleep problems but luckily my wife did a lot of research on this (in her own best interest -- she was afraid I might hurt her thrashing around in bed) and she mentioned it to me. I had been taking a multivitamin every day before we were married because I didn't feel that my bachelor diet was very complete. Thankfully my wife is an excellent cook using plenty of veggies so I stopped the vitamins and my night terrors stopped immediately. Just out of curiosity I even tried taking just a half vitamin in the morning instead of night and the problems returned same day.
I used to always have a mild to extreme terror about 1.5 hours after going to sleep. I don't know exactly what vitamin/mineral was responsible for this but from what I've seen it could be Magnesium or maybe Vitamin B.
At any rate, if you suffer from Nightmares/Night Terrors do yourself a favor and stop all supplements for a few days and see if it helps.
Good Luck. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.42.80.64 ( talk) 14:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
I heard rumors about the origins / epistemology of Nightmares means "Night" "Mares", where people in the old days use to see scary Black Horses in their dreams (?carrying fear, ?representing fears, ?aurora of fear)and often describe as having fiery organeish burning eyes, manes and hoofs. If I remember correctly, this probably has some relevance to the headless horseman origins.
Has anyone heard of this folklore mythology rumor before? My guess people see horses probably, because horses are common back in the old days, and psychologists says horses are very good at bonding with their riders (probably because of their intelligence and learning). But since they almost fear everything, it is a probably a natural conditioned response to have fear, when you see horses running in fear and panic.
The best picture I can find that relates to Nightmares. Though some claim they have horns, others disagree.
-- 75.154.186.241 ( talk) 20:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
The first picture and its (almost comical) caption has got to go. It's what really makes this article appear to be the work of an amateur. "A scared child, such as those who suffer from nightmares"...seriously...
What's next? "A fat belly, as it might appear after having had too many pancakes."
The picture is neither directly linked to the article, nor is it needed (we all know what scared children look like). I suggest it is removed. The - more relevant - Fuseli painting is more than enough to illustrate this article. Andailus ( talk) 20:03, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't see why they are defining nightmare soo loosely everyone i talk to uses nightmare and bad dreams as different with nightmares being scarier also I've been trapped in numerous nightmares not able to awaken so clearly it doesnt require waking up. -- 209.181.16.93 ( talk) 16:03, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
The first reference in the page leads to an empty page. I've noticed that the Internet Archive has the original page archived here. I'm not familiar with protocol here; is it acceptable to use pages in the internet archive as reference sources? Tinkba ( talk) 07:32, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
I have corroborated the information, it is an empty page. Look, I have tried to post the right citation, but am afraid I am inexperience in this, so I leave you the web reference: http://web.archive.org/web/20070831193305/http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/nightmare.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.55.96.124 ( talk) 09:39, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Surely, there are better literary references to nightmares other than Harry Potter? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.133.85.112 ( talk) 13:14, 6 February 2012 (UTC) --- I was wondering if the literary example section was necessary at all. Right now, it just seems like an excuse to mention The Hunger games. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.14.228.111 ( talk) 00:28, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Support - huge overlap-- Zymurgy ( talk) 04:31, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
done -- Zymurgy ( talk) 15:14, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Per this addition: I know that de Goya's work probably represents grief more than sleep but, wrong or right, it's still one of the most widely-recognized images within the theme. SteveStrummer ( talk) 03:55, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Actually, this image was in our literature book next to the Poe's Raven XD -- 109.60.111.91 ( talk) 10:37, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Night-MARE is Slavic goddess Mora ("nightmare") or Mara or Morana.
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This article has a brief section on Freud and Jung, but could say a lot more on what these two major figures said about dreams. It could, for example, say that whereas Freud saw dreams as wish fulfilment, Jung said that dreams could stem from conflicts - indeed, J.A. Hadfield, in his book on dreams and nightmares, says that he was personally informed by Jung that a principle reason why he fell out with Freud was this difference in their interpretation of dreams, Freud stressing dreams as wish fulfilment, but Jung allowing for the possibility that dreams could be conflicts. Vorbee ( talk) 15:38, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
The book to which I was referring was Hadfield, J.A. (1973) Dreams and Nightmares. Penguin. ISBN: 9780 - 140202-946.
I don't see how this odd image really helps the article. It isn't really illustrative or anything. Master of Time (talk) 04:20, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
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[1] This is interesting: a piece of software has gotten approval as a treatment for nightmares. It runs on a smart watch, senses through things like pulse rate that you are having a nightmare, and makes the watch vibrate on your wrist to jostle you out of the nightmare without actually waking you up. I'd prefer a more neutral source than a press release, but the approach seems worth mentioning. It would be helpful if sources mention anything about whether disrupting REM sleep that way has its own consequences. I have also heard that Fitbit-like sleep trackers aren't even that reliable at detecting when a person is asleep, so specifically detecting nightmares seems like an accomplishment. 2601:648:8201:5E50:0:0:0:DD22 ( talk) 21:44, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
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There was a claim in the introduction, un-cited, that "psychological nomenclature" differentiates nightmares and "bad dreams" by virtue of whether the dream may, in the right conditions, wake the dreamer. I am not aware of such nomenclature, albeit, I am not a psychologist. Jondvdsn1 ( talk) 12:30, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
From the 1881 Household Cyclopedia. it bad Great attention is to be paid to regularity and choice of diet. Intemperance of every kind is hurtful, but nothing is more productive of this disease than drinking bad wine.Of eatables those which are most prejudicial are all fat and greasy meats and pastry.These are needed to be avoided, or eaten with caution. The same may be said of salt meats, for which dyspeptic patients have frequently a remarkable predilection, but which are not on that account the less unsuitable.
Moderate exercise contributes in a superior degree to promote the digestion of food and prevent flatulence; those, however, who are necessarily confined to a sedentary occupation, should particularly avoid applying themselves to study or bodily labor immediately after eating. If a strong propensity to sleep should occur after dinner, it will be certainly bettor to indulge it a little, as the process of digestion frequently goes on much better during sleep than when awake.
Going to bed before the usual hour is a frequent cause of night-mare, as it either occasions the patient to sleep too long or to lie long awake in the night. Passing a whole night or part of a night without rest likewise gives birth to the disease, as it occasions the patient, on the succeeding night, to sleep too soundly. Indulging in sleep too late in the morning, is an almost certain method to bring on the paroxysm, and the more frequently it returns, the greater strength it acquires; the propensity to sleep at this time is almost irresistible. Those who are habitually subject to attacks of the night-mare ought never to sleep alone, but should have some person near them, so as to be immediately awakened by their groans and struggles, and the person to whom this office may be entrusted should be instructed to rouse the patient as early as possible, that the paroxysm may not have time to gain strength.
It's kind of misleading that there are pictures of people experiencing sleep paralysis when the topic is in fact nightmares. Though the two are similar, they're quite different.
With all due respect, I have experienced nightmares, night terrors, sleep paralysis, lucid dreams, regular dreams, and a large combination of the above. I have researched dreaming, lucid dreaming, nightmares and insomnia for my psych university studies (as well as for personal interest), read countless articles pertaining to dreams and dream related material, and can tell you that sleep paralysis and nightmares are uncategorically different and that empirical psychological studies recognise them as such. The terms 'sleep paralysis' and 'nightmare' may indeed have had the same meaning at some point in the distant past, but a lot of advances have been made in the area of dream research over the past 15 years. I really can't stress how incredibly inaccurate it is to use the terms 'sleep paralysis' and 'nightmare' interchangably. In addition, I'm fully confident that our understanding and definition for these two terms have altered somewhat since their initial conception in, what... the 1700's? -- Rathilien 02:54, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
Why are their two different versions of the same painting? raptor 13:22, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
I have removed the following sections, because they are copyvios taken from this site. If someone wants to rephrase them to aviod the ©-violation – be my guest. I also added a link to the site, as it was very informative. -- Salleman 16:22, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
The "mare" in "nightmare" is not a female horse, but a mara, an Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse term for a female spirit that sat on sleepers' chests, causing them to have bad dreams.
A nightmare is called a mareridt in Danish, a cauchemar in French, a pesadilla in Spanish, and an Alpdruck or Alptraum in German. The Alp is a demonic being which presses upon sleeping people so that they cannot utter a sound. These attacks are called Alpdrücke (nightmares). In Italian, the word incubo recalls the Incubus, a demon supposed to lie upon sleepers, especially women, and rape them.
A folk remedy has it that by stopping up the keyhole, placing one's shoes with the toes facing the door, and then getting into bed backwards one can protect oneself against nightmares or "Mortriden." [mare rides]. Or one can put something made from steel, for example an old pair of scissors, in one's bed straw. A third remedy suggests that a person suffering from nightmares should urinate into a clean, new bottle, hang the bottle in the sun for three days, carry it—without saying a word—to a running stream, and then throw it over one's head into the stream.
I don't want to keep clashing with [User:Jclerman|Jclerman]] here, but categorizint nightmares into Category:Neuroscience is just too broad. In essence, just about any human event can be categorized into "neuroscience". I recategorized this into the more specific Category:Sleep disorders. Semiconscious ( talk · home) 09:34, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I must agree with Semiconcious here. There is a fair amount of neuroscientific research into dreaming and nightmares, but if there is a more specific category available it should go there. I don't disagree with making the category Sleep disorders a subcategory of Category:Neuroscience. JFW | T@lk 16:28, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
There's not enough scientific information here about nightmares.
—The preceding
unsigned comment was added by
129.2.106.74 (
talk)
22:32, 1 March 2007 (UTC).
I agree also. In a roundabout way, it discusses something quite different and dated. The whole article is unfocused (at this point-29 Dec 07). Plus the little linguistic foray in one paragraph which has no place here. I've seen similar things like that be put into other articles and then removed almost unanimously very quickly. Wikipedia is not a translator....
I'm removing this paragraph but leaving it here for later reference if needed. I think this whole article should be scrapped too.... Chris b shanks ( talk) 18:26, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
In the instant that i am woken byhaha a nightmare, my first sensation besides panic, is of excessive heat. This has become such a noticable occurance that I can only conclude that the purpose of the nightmare was to wake me up to prevent damage to my body or brain. The cause of the heat was not illness but external factors, i.e. too many blankets, the heating left on, the cat sleeping on me! Thus after being woken and feeling hot, I removed the cause of the heat and returned to peaceful sleep. Are nightmares warnings that our brains are overheating? Is it a biological safety device? The thought intrigues me. Could we be causing the nightmares of our children and babies by trying too hard to keep them warm and tucked in at night? Any thoughts? 144.134.135.148 02:02, 11 March 2006 (UTC) Anne.
---The reason you're waking up is not because of the nightmare but because your body is uncomfortable. You just happen to remember the dream *because* you woke up, not the other way around. If you slept through the nightmare, you would have woken up at your normal time and not remembered the dream. You only remember the dream because you woke up and you woke up for whatever reason, not because of the dream. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.232.12.202 ( talk) 19:59, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
"(although not proven, many people believe that dying within a dream is an impossible feat, as there have never been any cases of a person reporting the feelings of the wound or disease that killed them in their dreams)"
I'm not sure what exactly counts as dying in a dream, but I once had a dream in which somebody shot me in my head (good thing it's not a premonition, yet), followed by a brief yet intense pain in my head, after which I began to faint, and my senses weakened rapidly, as if fleeing my body. I don't remember anything afterwards, which pretty much makes me good as dead. Does anybody else have a similar experience?
Maybe because we don't know what dying is like so our subconcious can't replicate it?
The reason you saw that you were shot in your sleep is that when you get hurt in your sleep the body tries to make a quick explanation for it. When you stub your toe you dont feel this because you know what happened, but since you are asleep the body will make up a story (if you have a strong imagination)such as being shot. You probably were just dehydrated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.151.122.227 ( talk) 01:53, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
The paragraph under the "Historic Use of term" section that lists the translation of nightmare in 17 different languages is poorly written as just listing information in a paragraph is of bad form. Also the information to me is arbitrary. In an article that is talking about nightmares, there doesn't need to be translations of the word into multiple languages. So either this info should go, or it needs to be placed in a small table.
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contribs
01:58, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi I would just like to know if anyone knows of, or has experienced a ghost pinning them down and not being able to move? Because this morning I woke up at about 5am but I didn't bother checking the time because for some reason lately I've been waking up at that exact time alot. So I just rolled over and tried to go to sleep, which was weird because it felt like I got to sleep straight away. Then when I think I was changing positions, all of a sudden I couldn't move, and I was in a uncomfortable position but I was just stuck. I could only move my eyes and maybe head slightly, and as I was all paralysed I could see a weird round light skim across the roof of my bedroom. It was like a bright blueish-white colour and from my position looked about the size of a tennis ball. So in this time of me trying to move I could see it skimming to directly accross my head, but as soon as I breathed out a help, I felt a release and I could move again and I was awake. This was really weird for me and scary as I could remember every vivid detail and it did not even felt like I had gone to sleep, and when I woke I figured out that this would have happenned in no less than 10 minutes of me waking the 1st time. Also the way I tried crying out for help felt like I was being choked, which I could tell from the sound of my own voice. And I also remember conciously thinking at the time as soon as I saw the light of aliens or ghosts, which made it feel like I was awake. I'm still not sure wether I was awake or asleep during this experience. I don't have alot of nightmares, I can't even remember the last time I did and I didn't watch any scary movies the night before. Can anyone help? TeePee-20.7 08:49, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I don't see a lot of information on the subject of vitamins related to sleep problems but luckily my wife did a lot of research on this (in her own best interest -- she was afraid I might hurt her thrashing around in bed) and she mentioned it to me. I had been taking a multivitamin every day before we were married because I didn't feel that my bachelor diet was very complete. Thankfully my wife is an excellent cook using plenty of veggies so I stopped the vitamins and my night terrors stopped immediately. Just out of curiosity I even tried taking just a half vitamin in the morning instead of night and the problems returned same day.
I used to always have a mild to extreme terror about 1.5 hours after going to sleep. I don't know exactly what vitamin/mineral was responsible for this but from what I've seen it could be Magnesium or maybe Vitamin B.
At any rate, if you suffer from Nightmares/Night Terrors do yourself a favor and stop all supplements for a few days and see if it helps.
Good Luck. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.42.80.64 ( talk) 14:03, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
I heard rumors about the origins / epistemology of Nightmares means "Night" "Mares", where people in the old days use to see scary Black Horses in their dreams (?carrying fear, ?representing fears, ?aurora of fear)and often describe as having fiery organeish burning eyes, manes and hoofs. If I remember correctly, this probably has some relevance to the headless horseman origins.
Has anyone heard of this folklore mythology rumor before? My guess people see horses probably, because horses are common back in the old days, and psychologists says horses are very good at bonding with their riders (probably because of their intelligence and learning). But since they almost fear everything, it is a probably a natural conditioned response to have fear, when you see horses running in fear and panic.
The best picture I can find that relates to Nightmares. Though some claim they have horns, others disagree.
-- 75.154.186.241 ( talk) 20:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
The first picture and its (almost comical) caption has got to go. It's what really makes this article appear to be the work of an amateur. "A scared child, such as those who suffer from nightmares"...seriously...
What's next? "A fat belly, as it might appear after having had too many pancakes."
The picture is neither directly linked to the article, nor is it needed (we all know what scared children look like). I suggest it is removed. The - more relevant - Fuseli painting is more than enough to illustrate this article. Andailus ( talk) 20:03, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
I don't see why they are defining nightmare soo loosely everyone i talk to uses nightmare and bad dreams as different with nightmares being scarier also I've been trapped in numerous nightmares not able to awaken so clearly it doesnt require waking up. -- 209.181.16.93 ( talk) 16:03, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
The first reference in the page leads to an empty page. I've noticed that the Internet Archive has the original page archived here. I'm not familiar with protocol here; is it acceptable to use pages in the internet archive as reference sources? Tinkba ( talk) 07:32, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
I have corroborated the information, it is an empty page. Look, I have tried to post the right citation, but am afraid I am inexperience in this, so I leave you the web reference: http://web.archive.org/web/20070831193305/http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/nightmare.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.55.96.124 ( talk) 09:39, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
Surely, there are better literary references to nightmares other than Harry Potter? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.133.85.112 ( talk) 13:14, 6 February 2012 (UTC) --- I was wondering if the literary example section was necessary at all. Right now, it just seems like an excuse to mention The Hunger games. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.14.228.111 ( talk) 00:28, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
Support - huge overlap-- Zymurgy ( talk) 04:31, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
done -- Zymurgy ( talk) 15:14, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Per this addition: I know that de Goya's work probably represents grief more than sleep but, wrong or right, it's still one of the most widely-recognized images within the theme. SteveStrummer ( talk) 03:55, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Actually, this image was in our literature book next to the Poe's Raven XD -- 109.60.111.91 ( talk) 10:37, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Night-MARE is Slavic goddess Mora ("nightmare") or Mara or Morana.
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ex- your falling — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.145.10.188 ( talk) 21:21, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
This article has a brief section on Freud and Jung, but could say a lot more on what these two major figures said about dreams. It could, for example, say that whereas Freud saw dreams as wish fulfilment, Jung said that dreams could stem from conflicts - indeed, J.A. Hadfield, in his book on dreams and nightmares, says that he was personally informed by Jung that a principle reason why he fell out with Freud was this difference in their interpretation of dreams, Freud stressing dreams as wish fulfilment, but Jung allowing for the possibility that dreams could be conflicts. Vorbee ( talk) 15:38, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
The book to which I was referring was Hadfield, J.A. (1973) Dreams and Nightmares. Penguin. ISBN: 9780 - 140202-946.
I don't see how this odd image really helps the article. It isn't really illustrative or anything. Master of Time (talk) 04:20, 1 September 2019 (UTC)
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[1] This is interesting: a piece of software has gotten approval as a treatment for nightmares. It runs on a smart watch, senses through things like pulse rate that you are having a nightmare, and makes the watch vibrate on your wrist to jostle you out of the nightmare without actually waking you up. I'd prefer a more neutral source than a press release, but the approach seems worth mentioning. It would be helpful if sources mention anything about whether disrupting REM sleep that way has its own consequences. I have also heard that Fitbit-like sleep trackers aren't even that reliable at detecting when a person is asleep, so specifically detecting nightmares seems like an accomplishment. 2601:648:8201:5E50:0:0:0:DD22 ( talk) 21:44, 8 November 2022 (UTC)