The Lilienfield text talks about dreams in chapter 5. It mentions multiple studies on how and when we dream, as well as when we are dreaming, those dreams are almost exclusively negative. This seemed very strange to me because Dreams that are negative are considered a Nightmare in my opinion, and I haven't had a nightmare in years.
But then my husband and I started talking this concept over, and no matter what we remembered dreaming about for the last week, they were all terrible dreams. Dreams of the apocalypse, dreams of missing finals, dreams of the other dying, dreams of not meeting standards, etc. It's been horrible. Dreams have no longer become fun to have.
Why are dreams always negative? Maybe because we remember horrible or traumatic things better than the good. Most of my dreams have some good in them, but the part that always sticks out is the scary part. Or the bad/ sad/ angry part.
Maybe the reason they don't feel like nightmares anymore is because I have become conditioned to them. They don't seem scary when they are frequent, and I've seen far worse on TV and in movies. As a child, dreaming of losing a parent will wake you up screaming, as an adult, the same dream may bring a tear to your eye, but you won't wake up wanting to crawl into mom and dad's bed.
This article gives a few reasons as to why we have bad dreams:
I feel like all of these reasons can be absolutely true to my bad dreams. I have an example of nearly all of them. What do you think? How does something like stress/anxiety affect you?
Maybe this video will help you!
:] enjoy!
-Dana Fisher
Dustin, I have 2 hyperlinks in my blog. I did them just as you've explained in your instruction blog, but they don't show up when I view my blog. How do you want me to go about fixing this now that its the day after the blog is due and I don't want it to show that the blog was late?
-Dana
I won't take points of this time because you asked me before the due date (which I extended to 11:59 pm on the 24th), so presumably it would have been fixed before the deadline had I gotten back to you. However, as you probably noticed, I didn't really respond to this comment on time, but I did to your email, so always email when issues arise because I check that much more frequently.