Nightmare disorder

Combining two psychological techniques can help you become your own Sandman. Sophie SchwartzIn a small nightmare disorder study, dreams connected to positive stimuli and emotions led to better rest. The post How sleep scientists helped people soothe their nightmares appeared first on Popular Science.

If you suffer from nightmare disorder, you may have repeated occurrences of nightmares that cause distress or impairment.

Nightmare disorder can produce emotional manifestations of fear, anger, and sadness. Here are 7 reasons parasomnias can challenge even the most astute diagnostician.

For those with post-traumatic sleep disorder, the brain tends to make bad memories come back night after night among people with PTSD.

You may not be able to tell the future, but your nightmares could tell you something about your mental health. Let's look at the science:

Nearly everyone experiences bad dreams and nightmares from time to time. These are the types of dreams that make you feel scared, alone, or anxious while you are sleeping - and often times these feelings are still present even when you wake up. Nightmares are never fun to experience

Recurring nightmares can be caused by stress, sleep disorders, trauma, and more. We look at what they mean, plus ways to prevent and manage nightmares.

REM sleep behavior disorder, or RBD in the medical field, affects around 1 percent of the general population worldwide and about 2 percent of adults over 65.