Vivid, upsetting nightmares happen sometimes. When they occur regularly and affect your ability to sleep or function, you may have a nightmare disorder. Sleep therapy, medications, and desensitization ...

Bad dreams may be more than a nuisance, according to a new study that linked the stress nightmares put on the body to premature deaths. Up to 85 percent of adults say they have an occasional nightmare ...

Poor sleep is a common feature in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), occurring 90% of the time; 70% of people with PTSD experience recurring nightmares (Ranney et al., 2022). Nightmares may be ...

Despite a wealth of studies and decades of research, there is no consensus on why we dream (or how to interpret dreams with numbers, for that matter). While we do understand basic things like how much ...

Night hags and night mares. Succubi and incubi. Sleep has long been a demon-haunted world. In olden days such visitations were thought to drain the dreamer of life-energy and, though modern science ...

Anyone who sleeps has had a nightmare at one point or another. But if the frightening dreams are happening frequently, it may be an ominous sign for health. Adults who reported having nightmares every ...

New research suggests that there’s a link between having regular nightmares and dying early. People who had weekly nightmares were three times as likely to die early as those who had them less often.