"Don't let your little sister watch that scary movie." Mom said to me. "Why not?" I asked. Mom looked at me as if I were brain dead. "Because she will end up with nightmares." I'm sure if you have a much younger sibling you at one time or another have heard this statement ; or something simaler. However many of us have nightmares not only little kids; and I believe that nightmares in anyone are caused by fears and emotions that happen in our uncounchious mind when we are awake ,that when we dream become conchious.
As I did my reasearch I came across an article by Michale Schredl that had sevral very intresting charts included. One of these charts talked about how "42.2 percent of people who were asked how often they had nghtmares reported that they NEVER had nightmares." Schredl, (2010 ).However a major flaw with this article was that they never talked about those who just could not remember there drreams so they might have assumed that they never had one. This could contribute to why this "42.2 percent" was way off my initial estamate. I thought this percentage would have been signifigantlly lower but, now thinking about how those who cant remember dreams it makes a little more sense as to why this pecetage is so high. Before I thought about that I asumed with all the media and ways in wich we can now view and read horror stories and fillms would have for sure made a huge spike in the number of people who have nightmares. However when we look at another chart we see that "horror films only contribute to 18.9 percent of all nightmares." Schredl, M. (2010). But we see "something as common as falling take cause of 39.5 percent of all nightmares." Schredl, M. (2010).
Agian if we look at another one of Schredl's charts we see he ...
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So as you can see I feel that the main cause of nightmares is outside stress factors and/or fears that may or may not be conchious while you are awake. Even though not as many people as I originally thought have nightmares however some can have interpersonal nightmares that can still be explained by interpreting the metaphore's that come from you daily stressors and fears.
Works Cited
Hill, C. E., Spangler, P., Sim, W., & Baumann, E. (2007). Interpersonal Content Of Dreams In Relation To The Process And Outcome Of Single Sessions Using The Hill Dream Model.. Dreaming,17(1), 1-19.
Schredl, M. (2010). Nightmare frequency and nightmare topics in a representative German sample..European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience,260(8), 569. Retrieved November 20, 2013, from the Accademic One File database.
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