Nightmares

Nightmares

Everyone gets nightmares, no matter how old or young you are, everyone gets them. As a child you are probably going to get more because the world is new! You are experiencing everything for the first time, there are all sorts of amazing terrifying things in this world. From creepy crawlies and clowns to falling or being chased by your worst fear possibly imagined. But as grown human beings, people still get nightmares. Nightmares like 'the normal nightmares' like falling, spiders and getting chased or followed, are all original and most people experience this as its just life and its normal.

On the other hand, anxiety, stress and depression can release the real horrors within us and haunt and strangle our every happy memory to breaking you apart from the world we live in. For example if you suffer from anxiety in the real world it doesn't mean it will give you a break in your dreams, its with you 24-7.

Dreams in which you can't wake up are the worst, particularly if its a nightmare you want to get out of. Or even questioning yourself if you are in reality or not. Not knowing if you are still dreaming and don't even know how to wake up; this can be really frightening. Sometimes we scream ourselves awake into the real world. Even something like this can haunt you in the real world too, this can lead on to panic attacks, serious anxiety and poor mental health.

This clip is from the TV series 'Teen Wolf'. The character Stiles has dreams where he cant wake up and doesn't know if he's dreaming or not due to serious anxiety. "Stiles believes he is awake while dreaming and dreaming while awake". Due to this he experiences vivid hallucinations and suffers from a type of dementia where nothing makes sense where he can not read anything. All of this is correct and very realistic, apart from how he got all of this in the first place. As its a fictional show and has supernatural reasons behind it, its not going to follow the same rules as the real world we live in.