Dreams and nightmares

by Laura Claire

Dreams have been a source of fascination for mankind throughout history. Cultures around the globe have made countless attempts to interpret this shadowy world, and scientists have tried to explain the mechanism for dream...read more

by Barry Williams

Given a choice I prefer nightmares to dreams . Nightmares are exciting whereas dreams are usually pleasant but can be awfully boring. Just the same though I wouldn't want too many nightmares. There has to be a limit to how...read more

by Keith Hillman

We live two lives. Two different lives. During our waking hours we go about our daily toil. We work, we play. We do the things we have to do. Every day. In this world circumstances determine our direction, yet we ultimatel...read more

by John Blackington

I seem to have more nightmares then dreams.In fact they make most of the horror movies i see make me laugh.I get nightmares so bad i wake up in a cold sweet gasping for breath with my heart racing a hundred miles an hour.I...read more

by Andrew Post

I have irrational dreams, and my nightmares occasionally have happy endings. I don't know what that says about me or my mental state, but it's the truth. On the rare occasions when I remember my dreams, they are uniformly ...read more

by M W

Dreams and nightmares can have a number of meanings, depending on what you believe in. You can take a more scientific approach, linked with Rapid Eye Movement, and perhaps conclude that dreams and nightmares "clean up" the...read more

by Amy Jones

Dreams and nightmares. Where do I even start? I am currently twenty four years old. I have many dreams and even nightmares. Most of which, I can remember most of the time. Some, I do understand why I had them and othe...read more

by Nathan Wright

As we go through life our dreams and nightmares change as we do. Not the visual images that we see in our heads while we sleep, but rather our goals and our fears. There is a fine line between dreams and nightmares, and if...read more

by Robert Hudson

The individuals history or background is of utmost importance as obtaining a complete psychosocial assessment. Will enable the therapist towards establishing an etiological conception of potential antecedent behaviors and...read more

by Conny Manero

Dreams. Some let us wake up in a cold sweat. Some we remember in bits and pieces. Some stay with us, sometimes for the rest of our lives. One dream I remember vividly. Part of the dream really, no more than a few se...read more

by The Dark Lady

WHY DO PEOPLE DREAM? Some people believe dreams are merely the garbled information and images we recieve throughout the day while some cultures such as Native Americans believe dreams are messages from the deities of othe...read more

by paapu

Each night..I go to bed with an expectant mind wondering what I would be dreaming. I'm happy to have been born as a human-being,not just for the sixth sense of intelligence I've been bestowed with,but for my ability to r...read more

by Rob Bryant

A nightmare is just another form of dream. There is no difference between a dream and a nightmare except for the content. Dreams occur in what has been called Rapid Eye Movement sleep (REM sleep). This type of sleep was ac...read more

by Steve Marshall

Dreams and Nightmares: I am aware of dreaming many dreams over all of my currently 50 years of existence here on our Earth. In all that time I have never had a dream I could describe as a nightmare. I have never been f...read more

by John Graham

Climbing to the stars We walked down the road from the beach past a row of tall grey houses that have been converted into boarding houses for summer guests. We turned into one, not dissimilar from all the others, and...read more

by Leslie Keena

"I was really little, but I still remember this dream so well: I was in my house and it was real dark, except everything I saw was green, like night vision. So I'm walking through my house and there are all these ghosts an...read more

by Aya Hajjar

What is sleep, stages and how to deal with insomnia? Sleep is a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended. During sleep we usually pass through five phases of sleep. These p...read more

by Cynthia Mitchell

As a little girl I came across a red book owned by my mother with a green Chinese dragon on the cover entitled "Dreambook". I still have no knowledge as to why it was puchased, but I most definitely was interested in it's...read more

by Nancy Browne

Crying Out Loud The dead wait here Like a buried war In sleep I've heard Dreams can raise Death from its grave Those who dream it Release little episodes Assaulted by the attack That takes offense In the far re...read more

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by lemony glitchet

Heroin is an illegal opiate drug made directly from the extracts of the opium poppy. Heroin can be used by doctors to treat pain but it is illegal for anyone else to use it. Heroin is a depressant.. Depressants don't m...read more