As far as scientists know, it’s impossible to completely eliminate nightmares. However, there are several ways to treat bad dreams depending on the presumed cause, according to researchers at Ha ...

A bad dream can leave you rattled for hours, working its way into your day. Nightmares will often leave us wondering exactly ...

There's nothing unusual about having an occasional nightmare (which sleep experts define simply as a bad dream that causes the sleeper to wake up). But up to 8% of the adult population suffers ...

Almost everyone experiences a nightmare at some point in life. In fact, bad dreams may be more common than good dreams. But when nightmares become prominent in your life and take a toll on your ...

At the beginning of the study (2002-12), the participants completed various questionnaires, including one asking how often they experienced bad dreams and nightmares. I analyzed the data to find ...

Existing therapies coach sleepers to imagine and rehearse alternate happy endings to their nightmares before bed, a practice known to significantly reduce bad dreams. Now, Swiss scientists aim to ...

Ancient Egyptians viewed all their dreams, whether sweet or scary, as full of messages for the dreamer. Bad dreams scared the ancient Egyptians, who feared that evil spirits or demons would visit ...

In a study that has yet to be peer-reviewed, scientists documented behavior in a captive cephalopod that they say looks very similar to a bad ... have dreams before you think about nightmares.” ...