"People should seek help for their nightmares if they are carrying over into their daytime mood and making them very anxious, or if they are making them afraid to go to sleep," Barrett told Life's Little Msyteries. While it may seem that having numerous nightmares in a short period of time is a bad sign, it may be that people who often experience nightmares simply have more vivid dreams in general, according to Barrett. Nightmares are a normal part of sleep, and their frequency varies from one person to the next. Mohkamsing-den Boer concluded that nightmares have a helpful role during times of change or uncertainty, and refers to them as transitional dreams. She found that their dreams often correlated to significant events that the dreamers were either experiencing or anticipating in their lives.ĭuring her research, the tribes people frequently told Mohkamsing-den Boer that "dreams prepare your emotions," as they believe that nightmares and dreams provide guidance when a difficult decision needs to be made. In 2005, Dutch-sponsored researcher Elizabeth Mohkamsing-den Boer recorded the nightmares of indigenous Surinamese and Australian tribes. Some cultures and religions, such as the Native American Lakota tribe, rely on dreams and nightmares to point them in the right direction when an important decision needs to be made, according to "The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains," (Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1994). Sometimes, analyzing a bad dream can help a person see its correlation to their daytime worries. However, before trying to change a nightmare, Barret recommends attempting to decipher its true meaning. "Once they've come up with their preferred ending, they can rehearse this while awake and then at bedtime, to remind themselves that they want to have this ending, should the nightmare occur again." Some want a realistic solution, for others, a metaphoric resolution is more satisfying."
"Some people prefer to fight off an attacker, some people would rather be rescued by someone else. "People can come up with a different ending to the nightmare - a mastery dream," Barrett told Life's Little Mysteries. How does one go about convincing their subconscious to stop repetitious nightmares?
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